Foods Robbert Has Tried

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Foods I've tried

Foods this traveler has tried.

Sometimes the entire tree is cut down to harvest the sap.

Drinks

Palm Wine

It takes only two hours for palm sap to become palm wine.

Civets (also called "luwaks") ferment coffee fruit seeds in their digestive tracts before excreting them.

Drinks

Kopi Luwak

This is one expensive load of crap.

Kratom tea with powder and whisk in the background.

Gastro

Kratom Tea

This Southeast Asian leaf can wake you up, knock you out, and subdue heroin withdrawal.

A few dashes are sufficient.

Ingredients & Condiments

Maggi Seasoning

This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.

The Verbena cocktail at the Chandelier Bar at The Cosmopolitan.

Ingredients & Condiments

Szechuan Button

This herb gives cocktails another kind of buzz.

A pot of boiled nettles means savory greens and earthy tea.

Fruits & Vegetables

Stinging Nettles

Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.

Behold, the most popular bread topping in the Netherlands.

Sweets

Hagelslag

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.