Foods Samantha Chong Has Tried

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

The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.

Deep-fried grasshoppers make a tangy, crispy taco filling.

This sweet-and-savory Moroccan meat pie can be tough to track down.

Almost every Newfoundlander has a secret spot for foraging this honey-sweet berry.

Mixing soy sauce, Creole spices, and spaghetti, this hybrid soup is the embodiment of New Orleans' melting pot.

The sweet is naturally a bubblegum shade of pink.

These dark fried milk balls are flecked with gold and dipped in scented syrup.

These ornately decorated spice cookies developed alongside a Russian city's gun industry.

Soft young cones make a sweet jam believed to have health benefits in Russia and Georgia.

Once made by monks, this candy spends 15 days rolling in sugar syrup to get its pearly-white shell.

This heavenly custard was born from the leftovers of sherry winemaking.

The original Cronut was named after a legendary acrobat's sneeze.

This hand-pulled cotton candy treat from Iran looks like threads of unspun silk.

Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.

The gummies are taking over Utah.

Melaka's Kristang community makes a dish so spicy, it's known as “devil's curry.”

This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.

This brandy-spiked recipe reveals the reclusive poet was actually a well-known baker.

Don’t worry: This sweet, creamy Mormon potluck staple isn’t actually made of frogs.

Oklahoma City's signature cocktail calls for a frosty mug, a shot of amaretto, Coors Light, and orange juice.

This sugar-soaked South Asian sweet isn’t your basic bread pudding.

Candy makers recently resurrected this crispy Chicago confection from the graveyard of vintage sweets.

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.