Foods venicedoll Has Tried

Once a treatment for heat stroke, the herbal gel now flavors desserts.

Follow your nose through Taipei for this crispy, warm street snack.

To celebrate Chinese New Year, vendors sell skewered, sugar-coated berries.

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

It's expensive, it's gelatinous, it's made from swiftlet spit.

This plant adds a hint of vanilla and a wash of brilliant green to any dish.

The ancient confection consists of wispy sugar-strands that look like dragon whiskers.

These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.

In the Philippines, fertilized duck eggs are savory snacks.

Why not fry a year-old leaf?

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

Venture beyond the usual sour-sweet varieties with this funky, savory fruit.

This nightmarish-looking fruit has serious healing potential.

After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.

The traditional Chinese medicine can also be deadly.

This sweet treat is so beloved in Hong Kong, it inspired an animated movie.

Slice one open for some citrus caviar.

These inky cloves have aged like a fine wine.

The spiky, fruit cup-flavored orb made an appearance on “Star Trek.”

These tightly coiled ferns also serve as a Māori symbol for unity.

Norway's notorious fermented trout is a tangy Christmas tradition.

The cure and cause of a burning tongue.

This jewel-like corn became an internet sensation.

The Mesoamerican mortar and pestle has been made, and used, the same way for thousands of years.