Foods Suryo Has Tried

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Foods I've tried

Foods this traveler has tried.

Stink beans with shitake mushrooms and pork.

Ingredients & Condiments

Stink Beans

These Southeast Asian legumes are famed for their lasting funk and deliciously nutty flavor.

Civets (also called "luwaks") ferment coffee fruit seeds in their digestive tracts before excreting them.

Drinks

Kopi Luwak

This is one expensive load of crap.

Fried emping ready to nosh.

Prepared Foods

Emping

These beloved Indonesian chips are actually flattened, fried seeds.

Sometimes the entire tree is cut down to harvest the sap.

Drinks

Palm Wine

It takes only two hours for palm sap to become palm wine.

Snake skin outside, tart pulp inside.

Fruits & Vegetables

Snakefruit

Beneath its serpent-like skin lies pineapple-flavored flesh.

The edible contents of the durian have been compared to custard.

Fruits & Vegetables

Durian

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

Lapis Legit

Sweets

Lapis Legit

This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.

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.

Spaghettieis

Sweets

Spaghettieis

This German sundae masquerades as an Italian dinner.

Berliner weisse, flavored with green woodruff syrup. (Yes, that's a child in a mug on the brewery's logo.)

Drinks

Berliner Weisse

Pink or green syrup turns a historic German ale into a tart, sweet delight.

A pot of boiled nettles means savory greens and earthy tea.

Fruits & Vegetables

Stinging Nettles

Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.