How to eat your way around the world?

  • This is a list of (my) favorite and strange food and specialties per country (I ate, and I still want to eat). I added the favorite food of my friends in this list.
  • During corona time, we took a map of the world and with a blindfold on pinned a country. In that weekend, we would pretend to be abroad, eat and drink the food of that country and watch a movie of that country. It doesn't have to be corona time to be at home and feel far away. Enjoy...
  • When you eat the local specialties of a country, you can really immerse in a culture. The locals will appreciate it very much when you like to try the food from their country. 
  • Some food which are on this list I do not want to try ever. I think I will throw up with having a full bowl of Kenyan rat soup or curry made of bat in front of me. I think only the sight of the food will make me nauseated. But perhaps when the real bowl is in front of me, I am curious, and I really want to try it.
  • In general be careful, what you eat and where you eat. You can get really sick, and food poisoning can ruin your trip. The best is to find a place to eat, where there are more people during local time for breakfast, lunch of dinner.
  • The strangest thing I drank in China was a shot of snake blood (after the snake was killed in front of me).
  • The strangest thing I ate was crocodile in the Philippines.

What to eat in Africa?

What are the specialties in Congo Brazzaville?
  • Poulet mayo
What are the specialties in Ethiopia?
  • Injera
What are the specialties in Ghana?
  • Rat soup
What are the specialties in Kenya?
  • Tchapati
What are the specialties in Morocco?
  • Couscous
  • Harira
  • Tagine Khodra Sabaa (Marrakech)
What are the specialties in Mali?
  • Dibi Sogo
What are the specialties in Niger?
  • Kopto
What are the specialties in Nigeria?
  • Egusi (Lagos)
  • Jollof rice
  • Okra soup
What are the specialties in Senegal?
  • Poulet Yassa (Dakar)
  • Thieboudienne
What are the specialties in South Africa?
  • Bobotie
  • Crocodile
  • Kota
  • Piri Piri (Johannesburg)
What are the specialties in Uganda?
  • Matoke

What to eat in Asia?

What are the specialties in Cambodia?
  • Satvalait or bugs
  • Tarantulas
What are the specialties in China?
  • Biang Biang (Xi'an)
  • Beef Noodles (Lanzhou)
  • Hotpot (Chengdu)
  • Pidan or century old eggs
  • Snake blood drink
What are the specialties in Hongkong?
  • Chicken feet
  • Dim sum
What are the specialties in India?
  • Chaprah
  • Gulab jaman
  • Paneer massala
  • Puri puri
What are the specialties in Indonesia?
  • Bat (Sulawesi)
  • Durian
  • Rendang (Sulawesi)
What are the specialties in Japan?
  • Shirouo no odorigui or so called dancing ice fish
  • Shirako or sperm of fish
What are the specialties in Korea?
  • Pajong (Seoul)
  • San Nak-ji or life squid
What are the specialties in Laos?
  • Larb balls (Luang Prabang)
  • White ant egg soup
What are the specialties in Mongolia?
  • Airag or fermented dairy
What are the specialties in Singapore?
  • Chili crab
  • Chicken rice
What are the specialties in Sri Lanka?
  • Idli and hoppers
What are the specialties in Malaysia?
  • Kaya Toast
  • Laksa (Kuala Lumpur)
  • Roti Canai
What are the specialties in Nepal?
  • Dahl Baht
What are the specialties in the Philippines?
  • Balut or fertilized duck embryo
  • Pag pag or recycled refried fastfood taken from the garbage
  • Tamiluk or woodworm (Palawan)
What are the specialties in Thailand?
  • Fish cakes (Bangkok)
  • Pad Thai (Bangkok)
  • Pad Krapow (Sri Racha)
  • Silkworms
  • Tom kha kai
What are the specialties in Taiwan?
  • Stinky tofu
What are the specialties in Tibet?
  • Yak tea
What are the specialties in Vietnam?
  • Bahn mi
  • Goi Cuon
  • Pho (Hanoi)

What to eat in the Caribbean?

What are the specialties in Curaçao?
  • Iguana stew

What to eat in Europe?

What are the specialties in Austria?
  • Schnitzel (Vienna)
What are the specialties in Belarus?
  • Draniki (Minsk)
What are the specialties in Belgium?
  • Beer
  • Mussels
  • Fries
What are the specialties in Denmark?
  • Pastries
What are the specialties in the Czech Republic?
  • Trdelnik (Prague)
What are the specialties in Corsica?
  • Cedrat sorbet
What are the specialties in Estonia?
  • Black bread
What are the specialties in France?
  • Callissons (Aix en Provence)
  • Champagne (Reims)
  • Croissants (Paris)
  • Escargot or snails (Bourgogne)
  • Socca (Nice)
What are the specialties in Germany?
  • Fischbrotchen (Flensburg)
What are the specialties in Georgia?
  • Khachapuri
What are the specialties in Greece?
  • Moussaka
What are the specialties in Greenland?
  • Muktuk or whale skin and blubber
What are the specialties in Iceland?
  • Hakarl or rotten shark
What are the specialties in Ireland?
  • Haggis (Edinburgh)
  • Guiness (Dublin)
What are the specialties in Italy?
  • Burata (Puglia)
  • Casu Marzu or maggot infested cheese
  • Orchietti cime di rapa
  • Pasta (Rome)
  • Pizza (Napoli, Verace Pizza Napolentana)
  • Sfogliatella or sweet dessert mille feuille and cream (Campania)
  • Tiramisu (Tuscany)
  • Wine (Tuscany)
What are the specialties in the Netherlands (Holland)?
  • Appelmoes 
  • Bitterballen
  • Frikandel
  • Haring (Scheveningen)
  • Hutspot
  • Poffertjes
  • Rabarbermoes 
  • Stroopwafels (Gouda)
What are the specialties in the Norway?
  • Lutefisk or dried cot in lye
What are the specialties in Poland?
  • Bigos (Warsaw)
What are the specialties in Portugal?
  • Pasteis de nata (Lisbon)
What are the specialties in Spain?
  • Paella (Valencia)
  • Pan con tomate
  • Tapas (Malaga)
  • All i oli (Catalonia)
What are the specialties in Sweden?
  • Meatballs (Stockholm)
  • Surstromming or fermented herring
What are the specialties in Switzerland?
  • Chocolates
  • Cheese (Emmentaler)
  • Tartiflette or Raclette
What are the specialties in Turkey?
  • Baklava
  • Kahvalti with kuymak
  • Kebab
  • Manti (Istanbul)
What are the specialties in the UK?
  • Chip putty (Liverpool)
  • Cornish Pasties
  • Stargazey pie or pie with fish coming out of it
What are the specialties in Ukraine?
  • Salo or slabs of pork fatback
  • Borsch (Kyiv)

What to eat in the Middle East?

What are the specialties in Jordan?
  • Mansaf
What are the specialties in Israel?
  • Hummus
  • Shakshuka
What are the specialties in Yemen?
  • Mandi

What to eat in Northern America and the US?

What are the specialties in Alaska?
  • Seafood
What are the specialties in Canada?
  • Bagels (Montreal)
  • Jellied moose nose
  • Maple sirup (Quebec)
  • Poutine (Montreal)
  • Salmon (Vancouver)
What are the specialties in the US?
  • Bagels
  • Barbecue (Texas)
  • Burritos (San Diego)
  • Catfish (Nashville)
  • Deep fried butter
  • Pizza (New York)
  • Rocky Mountain oyster or testicles of bulls, pigs or sheep
  • Tacos (Texas, Austin)

What to eat in Oceania?

What are the specialties in Australia?
  • Bunning snag
  • Witchetty grub
What are the specialties in Palau?
  • Fruitbat soup
What are the specialties in New Zealand?
  • Dairy (New Zealand)

What to eat in Middle and South America?

What are the specialties in Argentina?
  • Choripan (Buenos Aires)
  • Empanadas (Salta)
  • Pan Arabe (Buenos Aires)
  • Tostado de Jamon (Buenos Aires)
What are the specialties in Bolivia?
  • Empanadas de Queso
What are the specialties in Brazil?
  • Chachaca (Rio)
What are the specialties in Colombia?
  • Empanadas
  • Coffee
What are the specialties in Costa Rica?
  • Coconut ice cream
What are the specialties in Cuba?
  • Ropa Vieja
What are the specialties in El Salvador?
  • Pupusas (Santa Tecla)
What are the specialties in Mexico?
  • Escamoles or ant larvae
  • Huitlacoche or blue black fungus
  • Tacos
  • Tortilla soup
What are the specialties in Peru?
  • Cerviche
  • Cuy or guinea pig
  • Tallarines
What are the specialties in Panama?
  • Hojaldras

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