List of delicacies
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This is a List of national delicacies. This list is sorted from where the food originated from. Many of these dishes may be normal to one culture, however to other cultures may seem bizarre.
A delicacy is a food that is particularly prized within a given culture. Delicacies are often rare foods that are difficult to obtain or prepare, and as a result may only be served for special occasions. Often the rarity or difficulty to prepare a dish causes it to be comparatively expensive to other local foods.
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[edit] Australia
- Witchetty Grubs - moth larvae found feeding on roots underground
- Sugar Ants
- Kangaroo
- Emu
- Abalone
- Barramundi
- Meat Pie
- Barbequed Prawns
[edit] Cambodia
[edit] Canada
- Dried cod
- Lobster
- Smoked salmon, especially wild salmon
- Fiddlehead ferns
- Geoduck
- Seal flipper pie
- Maple syrup
[edit] China
- Bao yu (abalone)
- Bird's nest soup
- Geoduck clam
- Hoi sam (sea cucumber or sea slug)
- Peking duck
- Shanghai hairy crab
- Shark fin soup
- Sweet sauce noodle
- Soup dumpling
- Turtle Soup
[edit] France
[edit] Greece
- Achinos - sea urchin roe
- Atherina - Silverside (fish)
- Avgotaraho
- Octopus
- Salingaria - Snail
[edit] Guatemala
[edit] Italy
- Babbaluci - Snail
- Balsamic vinegar
- Bottarga
- Chestnuts
- Octopus
- Porcini Mushrooms
- White truffle
- Wild Boar
[edit] Japan
- Anglerfish
- Fugu - Poisonous pufferfish.
- Wagyu beef
- Odori ebi – Live baby prawns
- Sake kawa – Fried or roasted salmon skin
- Toro - fatty belly meat of Northern bluefin tuna
- Uni - sea urchin roe
- Matsutake mushroom - Japanese counterpart of Truffle
- Kurobuta pork (Japanese breed of Berkshire pork)
[edit] Mexico
- Beef brain (Sesos)
- Beef tongue(Lengua)
- Pork rind (Chicharrones)
- Fried Grasshoppers (Chapulines)
- Fried ant larvae (Escamoles)
- Menudo
- Cuitlacoche
- Tepezcuintle
[edit] New Zealand
- Bluff oysters
- Huhu grubs
- Whitebait
- Kina - (Sea urchin)
- Paua - (Abalone)
- Sooty Shearwater or New Zealand Muttonbird
- Toheroa shellfish soup
[edit] Netherlands
- Nieuwe Herring
[edit] Norway
[edit] Philippines
- Asocena - stewed dog meat
- Batute - stuffed frog
- Bayawak meat- water monitor
- Camaro - mole cricket
- Crispy pata - deep-fried pig's foot
- Isaw - grilled chicken intestines
- Lechon de leche - whole roasted suckling pig
- Papaitan - stewed goat or beef innards flavored with bile
- Pindang Damulag or Tapang Kalabaw - carabao jerky
- Quek-quek - battered, deep-fried chicken or quail egg
- Snake blood
- Turtle eggs
[edit] Portugal
- Açorda
- Alheira
- Bacalhau - dried cod cooked in very diverse manners
- Barnacles and Gooseneck barnacles
- Beef brain (Mioleira)
- Beef tongue
- Black pudding (morcela and chouriço de sangue)
- Boar and Venison
- Cabidela
- Caldeirada
- Caldo verde
- Cheese (Queijo de São Jorge, Queijo de Azeitão, Queijo de Castelo Branco, Queijo da Serra da Estrela, etc.)
- Chouriços and other types of cured sausages
- Cockles
- Cozido à portuguesa - Portuguese stew
- Crabs
- Eels (enguias) - fried or stewed
- Eggs and brains (Omolete de Mioleira)
- Espetada - various kebbabs
- Feijoada
- Frog legs
- Hake
- Horse mackerel
- Lamprey
- Linguiça
- Lobster (lagosta) - boiled or grilled
- Malasada
- Octopus
- Ovos-moles
- Pastel de nata
- Pork rind
- Pork and Cow Trotters
- Portuguese sweet bread and Folar
- Presunto
- Rice pudding
- Sardines (sardinhas assadas)
- Scabbard fish
- Sea bass
- Snails
- Squid
- Tripe (Tripas) - done in very diverse manners
- Túbaros - testicles
- Fresh prawns and shrimps (gambas frescas) - boiled or fried
[edit] Russia
[edit] South Africa
[edit] Spain
- Fresh prawns and shrimps (gambas frescas)
- Jamón ibérico (a type of cured ham)
- Lobster (langosta)
- Young eels (angulas)
- Veal sirloin (Solomillo de ternera)
- Foie gras
[edit] Sri Lanka
[edit] Sweden
[edit] United Kingdom
- Black Pudding
- Jellied eels
- Cockles
- Haggis (in Scotland)
- Cullen Skink (in Scotland)
- Lamb fries
[edit] United States
- Dry aged beef
- Dungeness crab
- Fiddlehead ferns
- Maryland blue crab
- Maine lobster
- Morel mushrooms
- Olympia Oysters
[edit] Vietnam
- Durian
- Balout
- Fermented crab
[edit] Sources
- Footage Store Mentions Cobra blood and Fried snakes
- Ecology in Cambodia Mentions sparrows as delicacy
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