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🇲🇼Malawi

Ugali

Posho

Kenya's staple food: dense maize flour porridge cooked in boiling water, served with meats, vegetables, or stews

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ugba

Oil bean seeds sliced, boiled and fermented into slippery strips with a sharp smell, eaten in abacha and nkwobi.

🇹🇯Tajikistan

Ugro

Угро

Hand-cut thin noodles cooked in a lamb and vegetable broth and finished with sour milk and herbs.

🇫🇲Federated States of Micronesia

Uht Kekihn

Uht Kekihn forms grated banana into balls simmered in coconut milk, creating a soft pudding served across FSM.

🇯🇵Nagoya, Japan

Uirō

ういろう

Uiro, the firm steamed rice-flour cake sold in long bars at Nagoya station, is a named regional omiyage.

🇰🇪Kenya

Uji

A Kenyan fermented porridge from millet, sorghum, or maize flour, a daily and breakfast classic

🇵🇼Palau

Ukaeb

Ukaeb is minced crab mixed with coconut milk, lime, onion, and chilli, then served in the crab shell as a rich Palauan shellfish dish.

🇷🇺Russia

Ukha

Уха

Ukha is a Russian clear fish soup with salmon, cod, or perch, root vegetables, and herbs.

🇲🇳Mongolia

Ul Boov

Ул боов

Large stamped shortbread-like cakes stacked in odd-numbered layers and topped with sweets, curds and sugar as the centrepiece of the Tsagaan Sar table. The festival follows the lunar calendar.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Ulam Raja

Cosmos caudatus leaves, antioxidant-rich herb eaten raw as ulam, fresh leaves with distinct herbal aroma and crisp texture, medicinal.

🇵🇼Palau

Ulkoy

Palauan ulkoy are shrimp and squash or pumpkin fritters seasoned with herbs and pepper, then fried until crisp outside and tender inside.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

Ulpershek

Үлпершек

A Kazakh dish of boiled offal — liver, heart and lungs — with broth.

🇨🇱Araucanía, Chile

Ulpo

Traditional Mapuche drink made from toasted flour and water, smooth and nourishing, a sacred indigenous beverage.

🇬🇧Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Ulster Fry

A fried breakfast distinguished by soda farl and potato bread on the plate alongside bacon, sausage, egg and both black and white pudding.

🇲🇾Sarawak, Malaysia

Umai

Melanau raw fish salad with lime juice and onions, fresh fish with tangy lime and crisp onions and not fishy.

🇸🇿Eswatini

Umbidvo Wetintsanga

Pumpkin leaves simmered with tomato, onion and crushed groundnuts until tender and nutty.

🇧🇷Brazil

Umbuzada

A thick sertão drink of umbu fruit and milk, tangy and creamy, from Brazil's dry northeast.

🇸🇿Eswatini

Umcombotsi

Tjwala

Traditional home-brewed beer from fermented maize and sorghum malt, cloudy and lightly effervescent.

🇯🇵Japan

Umeboshi

梅干し

Salt-pickled and sun-dried ume (Japanese apricot), intensely sour and salty, eaten with rice.

🇯🇵Japan

Umeshu

梅酒

A sweet liqueur made by macerating ume plums in shōchū and sugar, with a fruity, bittersweet profile.

🇸🇩Sudan

Umfitit

Sheep's offal chopped small and mixed with lemon, onion and chilli, sometimes with bread torn through it.

🇸🇿Eswatini

Umgcwembe

Traditional Swazi platter of grilled meat served with pap and spinach on a wooden tray.

🇯🇵Okinawa, Japan

Umibudo

海ぶどう

Umibudo ("sea grapes"), the seaweed whose beads pop with brine, is a named Okinawan speciality eaten as itself.

🇸🇿Eswatini

Umkhunsu

Cooked then dried meat, similar to biltong but cooked before drying.

🇪🇬Egypt

Umm Ali

أم علي

Egyptian-origin bread pudding made with puff pastry, milk, cream, and nuts, popular during Ramadan in UAE, warm comforting pudding with crispy pastry pieces and balanced nuts and raisins, a beloved dessert.

🇿🇦South Africa

Umngqusho (Samp & Beans)

Umngqusho

A Xhosa dish of samp (crushed dried corn) and sugar beans, slow-cooked with onions and garlic, a Nelson Mandela favorite. A national and traditional staple, hearty and savory, a comfort and daily dish

🇿🇦South Africa

Umphokoqo

A Xhosa dish of crumbly maize-meal porridge (pap) served cold with amasi (soured milk), a traditional and refreshing staple. A national and rural classic, tangy and comforting, a daily and home dish

🇿🇦South Africa

Umqombothi

Hwahwa

A traditional South African beer of maize, sorghum, and malt, low in alcohol and rich in vitamin B, a communal drink

🇿🇦South Africa

Umsila wenkomo (Oxtail & Dumplings)

Umsila wenkomo

A traditional South African oxtail stew served with dombolo (steamed dumplings), a hearty and comforting dish

🇨🇰Cook Islands

Umu

Umukai

A traditional underground oven feast; food is wrapped in banana leaves, placed on heated volcanic stones, and slow-cooked for hours; typically includes pork, chicken, fish, taro, breadfruit, and kumara; a centerpiece of Cook Islands celebrations.

🇹🇴Tonga

Umu

Samoan umu is a communal above-ground earth-oven feast in which food is wrapped in leaves and cooked over heated stones.

🇨🇱Rapa Nui, Chile

Umu Rapa Nui

Easter Island curanto, earth oven with banana leaves, meat, fish, and tubers, a legendary Rapa Nui communal feast.

🇷🇼Rwanda

Umugati

Bread made from cassava flour, baked or steamed; a traditional Rwandan preparation using the country's most important root crop; cassava is processed to remove toxins, then ground and cooked into a dense bread.

🇷🇼Rwanda

Umutsima

Gluten-free cake made from cassava flour and corn flour, baked into a dense, slightly sweet dessert; served at weddings, events, and celebrations; a uniquely Rwandan confection using the country's staple crops.

🇿🇼Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Umxhanxa

Ndebele dish of pumpkin boiled together with dried maize kernels until both soften, sweetened lightly and eaten warm.

🇯🇵Japan

Unadon

うな丼

Grilled eel (kabayaki) glazed with sweet soy over rice, a prized and expensive donburi.