Sweets
Chocolate Letters
In this Dutch holiday tradition, Sinterklaas leaves good children sweet pieces of the alphabet inside their shoes.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
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In this Dutch holiday tradition, Sinterklaas leaves good children sweet pieces of the alphabet inside their shoes.
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The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Drinks
With this Dutch liqueur, you can now drink licorice.
Drinks
It takes only two hours for palm sap to become palm wine.
Meats & Animal Products
It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!
Fruits & Vegetables
The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.
Prepared Foods
Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.
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These dark fried milk balls are flecked with gold and dipped in scented syrup.
Fruits & Vegetables
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
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The Belgian candy that sparked an epic vendor battle.
Fruits & Vegetables
Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.
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This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Prepared Foods
These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.
Ingredients & Condiments
The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."
Sweets
This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.
Prepared Foods
A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.
Prepared Foods
Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.
Sweets
These Dutch doughnuts are classic New Year's treats.
Ingredients & Condiments
Somewhere between butter and cream cheese, kaymak adds a fatty, creamy richness to everything.
Gastro
This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.
Prepared Foods
This melting-pot munchie combines fries, shawarma, melted cheese, garlic sauce, and spicy sambal.