The only Kurdish restaurant in Japan invites you to learn and feast.
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Places to Eat & Drink
Tokyo, Japan
Mesopotamia
Kyoto, Japan
Nokishita711
Sip “liquid cuisine” made with meat, vegetables, and insects.
Brooklyn, New York
Paloma the Bakery
This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.
Morton Grove, Illinois
Mazalae Mongolian Restaurant
Just outside Chicago, one of the few traditional Mongolian restaurants in the U.S. serves a misunderstood cuisine.
Food & Drink
Drinks
Tiquira
This violet-hued liquor is Brazil's oldest spirit.
Prepared Foods
Maultaschen
Legend has it that a monk hid meat in these dumplings to fool God.
Drinks
Pont
A town in East France still makes a beloved green-anise liquor born after the ban of absinthe.
Sweets
Lancashire Courting Cake
Before dating apps, young people used this cake to express their feelings.