Fruits & Vegetables
Bitter Melon
This nightmarish-looking fruit has serious healing potential.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
This nightmarish-looking fruit has serious healing potential.
Sweets
This thick, jet-black soup is an amazingly fragrant and nutty Chinese dessert.
Ingredients & Condiments
This cotton candy-like garnish is made of dried, candied meat.
Sweets
These adorable buns hide savory and sweet surprises.
Drinks
The perfect marriage of coffee and tea.
Prepared Foods
Two Chinese bakery specialties, combined into one.
Sweets
This sweet treat has been cool for more than 1,000 years.
Ingredients & Condiments
This savory seafood condiment is named after the finest cognacs.
Prepared Foods
On April 14, lonely South Korean singles are encouraged to drown their sorrows in black noodles.
Drinks
Bitter, sweet, and salty collide in this cool Taiwanese treat.
Drinks
A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.
Prepared Foods
Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.
Sweets
The 17th-century dessert plants an isle of meringue in a sea of custard.
Drinks
A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.
Sweets
The sweet is naturally a bubblegum shade of pink.
Sweets
This summery parfait has mingled with British royals and literary elites.
Sweets
A now-archaic Scottish breakfast paved the way for this popular dessert.
Gastro
The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.
Sweets
This classic San Franciscan ice cream sandwich is it, isn't it?
Prepared Foods
A New England tradition of steaming bread in coffee tins gave rise to this niche snack.
Sweets
The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.
Meats & Animal Products
This phallic, giant clam is the culinary crown jewel of the Pacific Northwest.
Sweets
Slurp this sweet and savory summer treat from a tamarind-and-chili-paste-coated straw.
Sweets
Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.