Drinks
Pu'er
Devoted fans pay thousands for bricks of this fermented tea.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Drinks
Devoted fans pay thousands for bricks of this fermented tea.
Prepared Foods
Peru's strikingly beautiful mashed potato casserole.
Drinks
This ruby, tannic style is little-known outside its native Bulgaria.
Fruits & Vegetables
Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.
Ingredients & Condiments
Sweet sauce tops off buttermilk biscuits in the Appalachian and Ozark mountains.
Prepared Foods
Congealed and sliced, the ferric addition is known for its purported health benefits.
Drinks
The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.
Fruits & Vegetables
This tangy fruit flavors everything from ice cream to cocktails.
Prepared Foods
Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.
Ingredients & Condiments
This savory seafood condiment is named after the finest cognacs.
Drinks
Meet Japan's first milk soda.
Fruits & Vegetables
These absorbent stalks make perfect flavor sponges in Vietnamese cuisine.
Sweets
The treasures are colorful fruits and nuts.
Sweets
Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.
Sweets
Every December, Sinterklaas and his helper throw these little spiced cookies to Dutch children.
Gastro
China's favorite urinating “tea pet” is actually a thermometer.
Prepared Foods
In Turkey, drinkers head off hangovers with creamy tripe soup.
Drinks
Not even the 17th-century nuns behind this Mexican eggnog could resist drinking it.
Sweets
Portuguese traders' love of marzipan paved the way for Thailand's vibrant mung bean candy.
Drinks
Bitter, sweet, and salty collide in this cool Taiwanese treat.
Prepared Foods
In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.
Drinks
The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.
Prepared Foods
This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.
Prepared Foods
At last, a street snack that brings together Doritos, veggies, pickled pig skin, and gummies.