Foods pleiades Has Tried

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

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

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

These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.

Japanese cooks riff on American diner food with this rice-and-ketchup omelet.

These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.

The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.

This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.

A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.

After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.

These woolly pigs produce the “Kobe beef of pork.”

A bitter liqueur that traces the history of a Hungarian-Jewish family.

Hungary's favorite chocolate bar is filled with cheese curd.

In this Hungarian campfire treat, roasted pork fat coats slices of bread in decadent drippings.

In Lisbon, tiny, standing-room-only bars specialize in this sour cherry liqueur.

This spiraled Balkan pastry requires painstakingly rolling dough into silky sheets.

After being banned for a decade and a half, this Roman classic is back on the table.

This Hungarian fried dough can make a rich breakfast or trusty hangover cure.

The decadent pastry almost outshines the Slovenian lake it's named for.

A distillery's abandoned barrels of cinnamon liqueur led to this new Dutch tradition.

A wine so luxuriously sweet, it's consumed by the spoonful.

Fizzy, fruity, and still fermenting, this almost-wine is a celebrated part of Austria's harvest season.