Foods mondlichtnd Has Tried

Bitter, sweet, and salty collide in this cool Taiwanese treat.

To celebrate Chinese New Year, vendors sell skewered, sugar-coated berries.

For a brief seasonal window in Spain, snails go from dreaded pests to coveted tapas.

A Spanish ritual meant to inject effervescence into a flat drink.

The Catalan green onion has its own festival.

The traditional way to send a stream of wine straight to your mouth.

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.

On the Andalusian coast, once-deadly tentacles become crispy delicacies.

On an island’s moon-like terrain, grapevines creep out of ashen volcanic soil and create extraordinary elixirs.

In Spain's Extremadura region, local sheep and a touch of thistle make for an ultra-creamy, slightly bitter cheese.

A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.

Spain's salt-cured tuna is known as “the ham of the sea.”

A decadent blend of coffee, whipped egg, and butter have made this wartime invention a modern-day favorite.

These portable pancake sheets have a crispy, hollow side and a sweet, doughy side.

The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.

A sundae with a surprising mix of flavors that reflect Filipino history.

Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.

It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!

Some fish can dance.

A radish scramble gets lost in translation.

Once a treatment for heat stroke, the herbal gel now flavors desserts.

Every morning, Chinese vendors sling savory, crispy crepes to lines of patient fans.

This sweet treat is so beloved in Hong Kong, it inspired an animated movie.