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Guyana

Guyanese Sugar Cake

Sugar cake

Grated coconut boiled with sugar and ginger until it stiffens, then dropped in spoonfuls to set hard, often tinted pink.

Guam

Guyuria

Guyuria are dense Chamorro cookies with a hard, dry bite and lightly sweet dough, often shaped for long storage.

Croatia

Guščji paprikaš

Guščji paprikaš is a Županja goose stew cooked with onion and sweet paprika.

Kathmandu, Nepal

Gwaramari

ग्वारामरी

Seasoned wheat dough is shaped into rough rounds and fried until puffed, crisp outside, and soft within in Kathmandu.

South Korea

Gyeran mari (Rolled Omelet)

계란말이

Gyeran mari is a rolled layered omelette sliced into rounds and served as banchan, anju, or a lunchbox side.

United States

Gym Shoe Sandwich

A Chicago South Side sub of gyro meat, corned beef, and Italian beef with lettuce, tomato, and sauce.

Japan

Gyokuro

玉露

Premium shaded green tea with deep umami and sweetness, the highest grade of Japanese tea.

Japan

Gyoza

餃子

Japanese pan-fried dumplings filled with pork, cabbage, and garlic, with a crisp bottom and soft top.

England, United Kingdom

Gypsy Tart

Gypsy tart is a Kent pastry filled with evaporated milk and dark muscovado sugar.

Greece

Gyros

Γύρος

Greek street food adapted from döner: stacked meat is roasted on a vertical spit and sliced into pita, commonly with tomato, onion, fries, and tzatziki. Pork is traditional in Greece; chicken is also common.

Japan

Gyukatsu

牛カツ

Gyukatsu is made with beef cutlet fried rare and finished by the diner on a hot stone.

Gyula, Hungary

Gyulai Sausage

Gyulai kolbász

Gyulai sausage is a protected smoked sausage from Gyula, beech-wood smoked and seasoned with paprika and garlic.

Sofia Region, Bulgaria

Gyuveche

Гювече

A single-portion earthenware pot of vegetables, cheese and often egg or meat baked until the top browns and the edges catch.

Japan

Gyūdon

牛丼

A bowl of rice topped with thinly sliced beef and onion simmered in sweet soy-dashi.

Sendai, Japan

Gyūtan Yaki

牛タン焼き

Sendai's grilled beef tongue, sliced thick and seasoned with salt or lemon, served with tail soup.

Sweden

Gáhkku

Gáhkku is a bread or flatbread from Norrbotten County, rooted in local cooking tradition.

Guernsey

Gâche Mélée

Gâche mêlaïe

Dense spiced apple cake or pudding made with cooking apples, flour, sugar and suet or butter; a traditional Guernsey and Jersey dessert.

Jersey

Gâche à Cidre

Cider cake made with flour, sugar, butter, eggs, bicarbonate of soda, nutmeg, and Jersey cider; a moist, spiced cake using the island's traditional cider; a Norman-derived Jersey specialty.

Goychay, Azerbaijan

Göyçay Pomegranate

Nar

Göyçay Pomegranate is the celebrated Azerbaijani pomegranate crop associated with the Goychay district and its autumn harvest.

Turkey

Gözleme

A hand-rolled village flatbread folded over fillings such as white cheese, spinach, potatoes, or minced meat, then cooked on a heated griddle (sac) until lightly crisp and golden. Women are often seen rolling and cooking gözleme at market stalls and roadside stops across Turkey.

Nicaragua

Güirilas

Nicaraguan sweet corn cakes made from fresh, tender corn, griddled until golden and typically eaten with crema and cheese.

Turkey

Güllaç

A traditional Ramadan dessert made with thin layers of cornstarch-based pastry soaked in milk with rose water and sugar, layered with walnuts and garnished with pomegranate seeds. Considered by some historians as a precursor to baklava, güllaç is light and delicate, consumed primarily during the fasting month.

Okinawa, Japan

Gōyā Chanpuru

ゴーヤーチャンプルー

Okinawa's signature stir-fry of bitter melon, tofu, pork, and egg, the island's soul food.

Phú Quốc, Vietnam

Gỏi cá trích (Vietnamese Raw Herring Salad)

Gỏi cá trích

Goi ca trich, raw herring cured and rolled with coconut and herbs in rice paper, is the defining dish of Phu Quoc and a named regional speciality.

Vietnam

Gỏi ngó sen (Vietnamese Lotus Root Salad)

Gỏi ngó sen

Goi ngo sen, the lotus-stem salad with prawn and pork, is a named Vietnamese dish built on an ingredient found nowhere else in the file.

Jammu and Kashmir, India

Haakh

ہاک

A simple Kashmiri haakh is leafy greens boiled with water, mustard oil, dried chiles and salt, commonly eaten with rice; household versions vary.

Ecuador

Habas con Queso

Andean fava beans stewed with fresh cheese and milk, a creamy Ecuadorian highland side dish served with potatoes and corn.

Peru

Habas Saladas

Roasted or fried salted fava beans sold as a crunchy Peruvian market snack.

Dominican Republic

Habichuelas con Dulce

A uniquely Dominican Lenten dessert of red kidney beans, coconut milk, evaporated milk, sweet potato, raisins, and spices, pureed into a creamy sweet soup. Served with milk cookies.

Puerto Rico

Habichuelas Guisadas

Dominican stewed red beans in a tomato-and-sofrito sauce with garlic, oregano, and cilantro, served over white rice. A core component of la bandera dominicana.

Karachi, Pakistan

Habshi Halwa

حبشی حلوہ

Sprouted-wheat milk cooked down for many hours with ghee and sugar until it turns almost black, then set with nuts.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hadžijski Ćevap

Cubed veal or beef braised with whole onions, tomato and okra in a covered pot — a slow-cooked dish that shares only the name with grilled ćevapi.

Liechtenstein

Hafalääb

Hafalaab

Hand-sized Liechtenstein corn-semolina and flour dumpling patties made with milk and egg, poached and then fried in butter for sweet or savoury serving.

Afghanistan

Haft Mewa

هفت میوه

Seven dried fruits and nuts — raisins, apricots, pistachios, walnuts, almonds, senjed and hazelnuts — soaked together for days.

Gilan, Iran

Hafte bijar torshi (Iranian pickles)

هفت‌بیجار

Haft bijar torshi, the Gilaki seven-vegetable pickle aged in vinegar, is a named regional preserve bought by the jar and distinct from generic torshi.

Scotland, United Kingdom

Haggis

Sheep's pluck minced with oatmeal, onion, suet and pepper, packed into a stomach or casing and boiled, served with mashed swede and potato.