Japanese cooks riff on American diner food with this rice-and-ketchup omelet.

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.

The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.

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

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

From postwar dessert to sweet slice of Canadian identity.

A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.

No rodents were harmed in the making of this fried Canadian treat.

This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.

Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.

You can have your syrup and drink it, too.

This traditional Southern pairing captures sweet and salty in a single bottle.

This tasty Czech pastry is now a Texan tradition.

A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.

A sweet and nutty liqueur made with the fruit of the "elephant tree."

Most sushi fans have never tried this rare rhizome.

This rustic cider's name derives from an English term for fruit thievery.

This candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders.

Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.

One fantasy food's journey from sci-fi vegan steak to silver screen cannibalism to actual meal replacement.

China's favorite urinating “tea pet” is actually a thermometer.

In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.