Prepared Foods
Nattō
These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Prepared Foods
These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.
Sweets
This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.
Sweets
These buns artfully resemble peaches and represent immortality.
Prepared Foods
The beef fat–fried version that first caught Ray Kroc's eye is now extinct.
Ingredients & Condiments
Pastrami fans will find the taste of this Canadian spice blend very familiar.
Drinks
This is one expensive load of crap.
Gastro
A Spanish ritual meant to inject effervescence into a flat drink.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Fruits & Vegetables
The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.
Sweets
The original energy bar.
Ingredients & Condiments
This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.
Gastro
The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.
Prepared Foods
A radish scramble gets lost in translation.
Prepared Foods
It's expensive, it's gelatinous, it's made from swiftlet spit.
Ingredients & Condiments
This plant adds a hint of vanilla and a wash of brilliant green to any dish.
Prepared Foods
In Myanmar, fermented tea leaves make a tangy, caffeinated salad.
Fruits & Vegetables
Beneath its serpent-like skin lies pineapple-flavored flesh.
Sweets
The 17th-century dessert plants an isle of meringue in a sea of custard.