These sweet hands come with stories of triumph and brutality.

You put the charcoal in the coffee cup and drink it all up.

This brandy-spiked recipe reveals the reclusive poet was actually a well-known baker.

A Jakarta hole-in-the-wall serves what may be the world's spiciest noodles.

The fairest and rarest of them all.

A seasonal Hungarian spritzer has a language all its own.

This multi-layered treat has become a potent symbol of Hungarian-Jewish identity.

They grow in boxes and can cost more than $100.

A radish scramble gets lost in translation.

The toxic pufferfish steals hearts, despite its ability to stop them.

These cheese balls have fueled Central Asian nomads for centuries.

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

The cure and cause of a burning tongue.

Monks make this stunning, ephemeral art from yak butter and mineral pigments.

The Japanese city of Kumamoto specializes in “cherry blossom meat.”

A “pool of beans” makes a hearty breakfast in Johor, Malaysia.

Meet Japan's first milk soda.

In this Laotian specialty, a medley of herbs, chilis, and peanuts swims in a sanguine dressing.

The annual feast invites local macaques to dine on towers of fruit and vegetables among the ruins of a 13th-century temple.

Elderly villagers hunt the digger wasps that stud these Japanese rice crackers.

A cocktail that originated in a British officers’ club in erstwhile Burma now has fans across the world.

The most expensive melon in the world is a status symbol in Japan.

This German comfort food unites earthbound potatoes with apples from above.

Brewers freeze their beer to make this high-octane, sweet style.