Foods Shinnam Has Tried

This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.

Follow your nose through Taipei for this crispy, warm street snack.

Essential to South Asian cuisine, the flavoring is illegal in some countries.

This nightmarish-looking fruit has serious healing potential.

This thick, jet-black soup is an amazingly fragrant and nutty Chinese dessert.

South Koreans turned this simple grain into a nutty energy drink.

Early 20th-century chefs used beaver musk to give sweets a vanilla-raspberry flavor.

All is fare in the Korean War.

These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.

The South Pacific's shrub-based drink causes relaxation, euphoria, and a tingling sensation.

A New England tradition of steaming bread in coffee tins gave rise to this niche snack.

This dessert is roasted over a fire and looks like a tree.

The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.

Some fish can dance.