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🇨🇳China

Baijiu

白酒

A clear grain spirit distilled from sorghum and fermented with qu starter, bottled between 40 and 60 percent, and drunk in small toasted cups.

🇷🇺Russia

Baikal

Байкал

Baikal is a Soviet-era Russian herbal soft drink made with extracts from Siberian herbs.

🇮🇳India

Baingan Bharta

बैंगन भरता

Roasted eggplant mashed and cooked with onions, tomatoes, and spices. A smoky North Indian vegetarian dish.

🇲🇻Maldives

Baipen

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Rice congee cooked soft and smooth, served with maskurolhi (tuna and coconut chutney) — a comforting Maldivian breakfast or light meal.

🇵🇹Centro, Portugal

Bairrada Wine

Baga-based red and sparkling region.

🇧🇷Brazil

Baião de Dois

A hearty Northeastern dish of rice and beans cooked together with cheese, herbs, and sometimes dried meat, similar to a pilaf.

🇭🇷Croatia

Bajadera

Traditional Croatian candy made from hazelnuts and chocolate, similar to praline, a popular confection, rich and layered.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Fish Cakes

Fish cakes

Salt cod flaked into a seasoned batter with herbs and hot pepper, dropped by the spoonful into hot oil and sold hot by the bag.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Macaroni Pie

Macaroni pie

Macaroni baked with cheddar, mustard, onion and a whisked egg custard until it sets firm enough to be cut in squares and served as a side.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Pepper Sauce

Scotch bonnets blended with mustard, turmeric, onion and vinegar into a thick yellow sauce that sits on every table on the island.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Pepperpot

Pepperpot

A deeply savory Barbadian stew of meat (often pork, beef, or offal) cooked down with cassareep, a concentrated cassava syrup, plus hot peppers and spices.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Pudding

Pudding

Grated sweet potato seasoned with sugar, hot pepper and herbs, packed into a cleaned pig's intestine and steamed until it sets dark and dense.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Salt Bread

Salt bread

A soft, slightly sweet white roll with a floury top and a seam down the middle, baked in every Bajan bakery and the basis of every cutter.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Seasoning

A wet green paste of marjoram, thyme, parsley, spring onion, garlic and hot pepper, rubbed into every piece of meat and fish before cooking.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Souse

Souse

Boiled pork cuts cooled and steeped in a pickle of lime juice, cucumber, onion, parsley and scotch bonnet, served cold and dripping.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Sweet Bread

Sweet bread

A dense coconut loaf with cherries and raisins, brushed with sugar water so the top glazes, sold by the slab in bakeries.

🇰🇼Kuwait

Bajella

باجلا

Dried broad beans soaked overnight and boiled soft with cumin, eaten for breakfast with bread, lemon and oil.

🇮🇩West Java, Indonesia

Bajigur

Warm Sundanese coconut milk and ginger drink with palm sugar, creamy and warming.

🇲🇻Maldives

Bajiya

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Maldivian samosa — triangular pastry filled with smoked tuna, onion, and coconut, deep-fried until golden and crisp, the local version of the Indian samosa.

🇸🇴Somalia

Bajiyo

Somali fried bean or lentil cakes seasoned with onion and chili.

🇩🇯Djibouti

Bajiyos

Thin potato slices coated in spiced chickpea and rice-flour batter, then deep-fried until crisp; a popular Djiboutian street snack for Ramadan afternoons.

🇮🇳Rajasthan, India

Bajra Roti

बाजरे की रोटी

A flatbread made from pearl millet flour, popular in Rajasthan and Gujarat. It is gluten-free, hearty, and typically served in winter with garlic chutney.

🇲🇹Malta

Bajtra

Liqueur made from prickly pears, sweet and pink-orange, drunk cold as a digestif.

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Bak Chor Mee

肉脞面

Egg noodles tossed in vinegar, chilli and pork lard, topped with minced pork, liver, meatballs, fried sole fish and a small bowl of soup on the side.

🇲🇾Selangor, Malaysia

Bak Kut Teh

肉骨茶

Pork rib soup with medicinal herbs and spices, Klang style is darker and herbal, deep herbal flavor with tender meat falling off bone.

🇸🇷Suriname

Bakabana

Slices of ripe plantain in a light batter, deep fried and served with peanut sauce.

🇭🇷Dalmatia, Croatia

Bakalar na bijelo

Bakalar na bijelo is a regional dish prepared with local ingredients and a distinctive Balkan tradition.

🇱🇾Libya

Bakalawa Bil Jibna

A Libyan cheese-filled baklava of crisp phyllo layers and sweet cheese, soaked in syrup.

🇸🇮Slovenian Littoral, Slovenia

Bakalca

A traditional sauce from Idrija made from mutton or rabbit, vegetables and spices, slow-cooked into a rich ragù served over idrijski žlikrofi.

🇧🇩Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bakarkhani

বাখরখানি

Thick, dry, layered bread of flour and ghee stamped with a pattern and baked hard in a tandoor, eaten broken into tea.

🇬🇾Guyana

Bake and Saltfish

A fried flour cake split open and filled with salt cod sautéed with onion, tomato and pepper.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Bake and Shark

Seasoned shark fillet fried in a spiced batter, stuffed into a fried bread and dressed by the customer at a condiment bar.

🇨🇦Atlantic Canada, Canada

Bakeapple pie

A Newfoundland and Labrador pie made with bakeapples (cloudberries), a tart orange berry found in bogs.

🇨🇦Atlantic Canada, Canada

Bakeapples

Small pink-orange cloudberries growing in bogs, tasting like peach-apricot with tartness, prized Newfoundland delicacy.

🇺🇸United States

Baked Alaska

A dramatic dessert of ice cream atop sponge cake, blanketed in meringue and quickly browned in a hot oven.

🇬🇦Gabon

Baked Bananas Gabon

Bananes au four

Bananas coated with bread crumbs and served with sour cream and brown sugar; a sweet dessert preparation found in Gabonese homes.