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Green Chartreuse

Drinks

Green Chartreuse

Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.

Hoshigaki

Fruits & Vegetables

Hoshigaki

These exquisite dried persimmons are massaged for weeks.

A seafood okonomiyaki topped with bonito flakes

Prepared Foods

Okonomiyaki

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

Ruby Chocolate

Sweets

Ruby Chocolate

The sweet is naturally a bubblegum shade of pink.

Sharkskin Wasabi Grater

Gastro

Sharkskin Wasabi Grater

Traditional sushi chefs produce optimal condiments with this ancient tool.

Blocks of this sugar look almost black.

Ingredients & Condiments

Okinawa Black Sugar

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

Behold, the most popular bread topping in the Netherlands.

Sweets

Hagelslag

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

Chimney Cake

Sweets

Chimney Cake

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

Basi Sweet Potatoes

Sweets

Basi Sweet Potatoes

Pulling apart this dish creates silk-like threads of melted sugar.

Bánh Pía

Sweets

Bánh Pía

This mooncake's flaky exterior gives way to a creamy, sometimes stinky, core.

Fresh-pressed pandan leaf adds a limey glow to this refresher.

Ingredients & Condiments

Pandan Leaf Extract

This plant adds a hint of vanilla and a wash of brilliant green to any dish.

Charentais Melon

Fruits & Vegetables

Charentais Melon

The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.

African Horned Cucumber

Fruits & Vegetables

African Horned Cucumber

The spiky, fruit cup-flavored orb made an appearance on “Star Trek.”

Skal

Drinks

Skal

Meet Japan's first milk soda.

Coffee Jelly

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Coffee Jelly

Leftover coffee plus gelatin equals this vintage dessert.

Fruit Sando

Sweets

Fruit Sando

Fresh fruit is the main feature of this sweet sandwich.

Real Wasabi

Ingredients & Condiments

Real Wasabi

Most sushi fans have never tried this rare rhizome.

Grass Jelly

Ingredients & Condiments

Grass Jelly

Once a treatment for heat stroke, the herbal gel now flavors desserts.

Hiyoko

Sweets

Hiyoko

These bird-shaped cakes once fueled miners in Japan's Fukuoka region.

Step one: Bite off opposite corners of the biscuit.

Gastro

Tim Tam Slam

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

Singapore Ice Cream Sandwich

Sweets

Singapore Ice Cream Sandwich

Take the name of this street treat literally.

Black (in the background) and white carrot cake, served with peanuts and scallions.

Prepared Foods

Singapore Carrot Cake

A radish scramble gets lost in translation.

Pocari Sweat

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Pocari Sweat

A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.

Financiers

Sweets

Financiers

These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.

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