Fruits & Vegetables
Cherimoya
Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.
Drinks
A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.
Gastro
Japan's traditional temple cuisine features meals that are nutritionally and visually balanced.
Ingredients & Condiments
Somewhere between butter and cream cheese, kaymak adds a fatty, creamy richness to everything.
Fruits & Vegetables
Slice one open for some citrus caviar.
Sweets
These portable pancake sheets have a crispy, hollow side and a sweet, doughy side.
Prepared Foods
Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.
Meats & Animal Products
It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!
Drinks
It's the fat-fueled energy drink of the Tibetan Plateau.
Fruits & Vegetables
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.