Foods rykinu Has Tried

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Foods I've tried

Foods this traveler has tried.

Boylan's Birch Beer

Drinks

Birch Beer

This cousin of root beer has a long history and a surprisingly minty taste.

All hail Cel-Ray.

Drinks

Cel-Ray

Quench your thirst with the refreshing taste of celery soda.

The fermented meat of a Greenland shark.

Prepared Foods

Hákarl

Iceland's fermented, dried shark smells like urine and can taste like strong cheese.

An intimidating mountain of honey box toast.

Sweets

Honey Toast Box

Many spoons are needed to demolish one of these ice cream-stuffed bread loaves.

Rolling ready strips of sugar on snow onto popsicle sticks.

Sweets

Sugar on Snow

Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.

Maror in three forms: a mixture of grated horseradish, beets, and sugar; endive lettuce; and horseradish root.

Gastro

Maror

The bitter herb served on Passover can be anything from horseradish to lettuce.

Blocks of this sugar look almost black.

Ingredients & Condiments

Okinawa Black Sugar

It's darker, saltier, and healthier than white sugar.

Takoyaki

Prepared Foods

Takoyaki

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

Tofu, scallion, and narutomaki soup.

Meats & Animal Products

Narutomaki

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

In-shell littleneck clams accentuate this clam pie.

Prepared Foods

Clam Apizza

New Haven's signature pie combines staples from Rhode Island and Naples.

A lone umeboshi between chopsticks.

Fruits & Vegetables

Umeboshi

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