Meats & Animal Products
Shirako
Raw, steamed, or fried, these satchels of fish semen are creamy delicacies.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Meats & Animal Products
Raw, steamed, or fried, these satchels of fish semen are creamy delicacies.
Sweets
These adorable buns hide savory and sweet surprises.
Prepared Foods
In Singapore, dried, shredded cephalopod is a bubblegum alternative.
Sweets
No visit to the ruins of Ayutthaya is complete without this candy floss crepe.
Prepared Foods
During Hong Kong winters, crowds flock to small diners with serpents in their cupboards.
Meats & Animal Products
This phallic, giant clam is the culinary crown jewel of the Pacific Northwest.
Sweets
This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.
Prepared Foods
Follow your nose through Taipei for this crispy, warm street snack.
Drinks
It takes only two hours for palm sap to become palm wine.
Prepared Foods
The beef fat–fried version that first caught Ray Kroc's eye is now extinct.
Fruits & Vegetables
This "green caviar" is vegetarian friendly.
Sweets
These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
Fruits & Vegetables
The sweet, tiny wild berries are only available for two months each year.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Ingredients & Condiments
This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.
Sweets
A sundae with a surprising mix of flavors that reflect Filipino history.
Prepared Foods
Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.
Prepared Foods
A radish scramble gets lost in translation.
Prepared Foods
It's expensive, it's gelatinous, it's made from swiftlet spit.
Sweets
The ancient confection consists of wispy sugar-strands that look like dragon whiskers.
Ingredients & Condiments
This plant adds a hint of vanilla and a wash of brilliant green to any dish.
Gastro
In Asia, the black-skinned silkie chicken forms the base of a medicinal broth.
Fruits & Vegetables
Beneath its serpent-like skin lies pineapple-flavored flesh.