Japan · Tokyo
Soufflé pancake
SweetBrunch
Air-whipped batter griddled tall and wobbly, dusted and stacked. Instagram-famous — the guide flags the 90-minute Harajuku queues.
In Tokyo →Trap flagged
The Food Database · A–Z index
Every dish, decoded
The plain-language index behind every Food Passport route. What a dish actually is, where it's from, and which volume you'll find it in — from Tokyo shoyu ramen to Maldivian mashuni. Read free on the web, stamp what you've eaten in the app.
Dish of the week · On the ballot
Maldives
Breakfast · Coconut · No cook
Mashuni
The Maldivian breakfast: finely shredded smoked skipjack tuna hand-tossed with grated coconut, diced onion, bird's-eye chili and a hard squeeze of lime. Scooped up with warm roshi flatbread at dawn — protein-heavy fuel before the heat sets in.
Smoked tunaRoshiSpicy
Vote the Maldives onto the map →The index · 14 dishes
Dishes worth crossing a city for
Japan · Tokyo
Shoyu ramen
NoodleSoup
Clear soy-tare broth over thin wavy noodles with chashu and ajitama. Tsuta earned the city's first ramen Michelin star.
In Tokyo →Live on web
Japan · Fukuoka
Tonkotsu ramen
NoodlePork
Milky pork-bone broth boiled for hours over ultra-thin noodles ordered by firmness. Fukuoka's yatai stalls are home ground.
In Fukuoka →Binding
Japan · Tokyo
Conveyor sushi
RawRice
Nigiri and maki riding the belt or fired in by touchscreen. Uobei in Shibuya plates most for ¥110–150.
In Tokyo →Live on web
Japan · Tokyo
Tonkatsu
FriedPork
Panko-crusted pork loin fried gold and sliced, served over rice with shredded cabbage and a tangy tonkatsu sauce.
In Tokyo →Live on web
Japan · Tokyo
Yakitori
GrilledSkewer
Charcoal-grilled chicken skewers — negima, tsukune, tare or shio — eaten shoulder-to-shoulder at alley counters after dark.
In Tokyo →Live on web
Japan · Tokyo
Taiyaki
SweetStreet
Fish-shaped cake pressed in hot irons and filled with sweet red-bean paste. Naniwaya has baked them since 1909.
In Tokyo →Live on web
Japan · Osaka
Takoyaki
StreetSnack
Molten octopus-filled batter balls flipped in dimpled pans, brushed with sauce and dancing bonito. Osaka's signature bite.
In Osaka →In the app
Mexico · CDMX
Tacos al pastor
StreetPork
Chili-marinated pork shaved off a vertical trompo onto corn tortillas with pineapple, onion and cilantro.
In Mexico City →Voted in
Mexico · Oaxaca
Mole negro
SauceFestive
Oaxaca's darkest mole — dozens of ingredients including chilhuacle chilies and chocolate, simmered a full day over turkey.
In Oaxaca →Voted in
Thailand · Chiang Mai
Khao soi
NoodleCurry
Northern Thai coconut-curry noodle soup crowned with crispy fried noodles, pickled mustard greens, shallot and lime.
In Chiang Mai →Next volume
Thailand · Bangkok
Boat noodles
NoodleSoup
Small, intense bowls of dark pork or beef broth once ladled from canal boats. Order three — or five. Stack the bowls.
In Bangkok →Next volume
Italy · Naples
Pizza margherita
BakedCheese
Naples' original: San Marzano tomato, fior di latte, basil and olive oil on a blistered 90-second crust.
In Naples →Locked
Italy · Rome
Cacio e pepe
PastaRoman
Three ingredients, no shortcuts: tonnarelli emulsified with pecorino Romano and a heavy hit of cracked black pepper.
In Rome →Locked