This is a list of national delicacies (also called kickshaws). This list is sorted from where the food originated from.
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 compared to other local foods.
Certain delicacies may be normal within one culture but seem bizarre to others.
Argentina
*Dulce de leche
Australia
*Abalone
*Barramundi
*Witchetty grub
Brazil
*Brigadeiro
*Cajuzinho
*Cocada
*Pão de queijo
*Tapioca
Cambodia
*Balut
*Fried spider
*Cobra blood
*Fried River Snakes
*Prahok
*Sparrows
Canada
*Dried and salted cod
*Fiddlehead ferns
*Geoduck
*Lobster
*Maple syrup
*Caviar
*Seal flipper pie
*Smoked salmon, especially wild salmon
* Foie gras
Chile
*Centolla
*Loco
China
*Bao yu (abalone)
*Bird's nest soup
*Chicken feet
*Geoduck clam
*Hoi sam (sea cucumber or sea slug)
*Peking duck
*Shanghai hairy crab
*Shark fin soup
*Sweet sauce noodle
*Soup dumpling
*Turtle Soup
*Dried fish maw soup
*Bear's claws
Dominica
*Giant Ditch Frog
France
*Calf brains
*Black truffle
*Escargot
*Foie gras
*Frog legs
*Ortolan
*Sweetbread
*Tartare
*Tadpole soup
Greece
*Achinos - sea urchin roe
*Atherina -
*Avgotaraho
*Octopus
*Salingaria - Snail
Guatemala
*Fiambre
Iceland
*Hakarl - shark meat that has been cured by leaving to rot
*Puffin
*Skyr
Italy
*Babbaluci - Snail
*Balsamic vinegar
*Bottarga
*Chestnuts
*Octopus
*Pizza
*Porcini Mushrooms
*White truffle
*Wild Boar
Japan
*Anglerfish
*Fugu - Poisonous pufferfish.
*Wagyu beef
**Kobe beef
**Matsuzaka beef
**Mishima beef
*Odori ebi - Live 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)
Korea
*Agujjim, made by steaming blackmouth angler
*Beondegi, steamed or boiled silkworm pupae
*Bosintang, thick soup made with dog meat
*Hongeohoe, made with mottled skate
*Gobchang, cow's intestine
*Makchang gui, grilled pig's intestine
*Yukhoe, made with raw beef
*Gejang, salted fermented crab in either ganjang (Korean soy sauce) or gochujang (chili pepper condiment)
*, blood sausage
*Sannakji, raw small octopus seasoned with sesame oil
*Pheasant
Mauritius
*Kari Zako
Mexico
*Beef brain (Sesos)
*Beef tongue(Lengua)
*Pork rind (Chicharrones)
*Fried Grasshoppers (Chapulines)
*Fried ant larvae (Escamoles)
*Menudo
*Cuitlacoche
*Tepezcuintle
New Zealand
*Bluff oysters
*Huhu grubs
*Whitebait
*Kina - (Sea urchin)
*Paua - (Abalone)
*Sooty Shearwater or New Zealand Muttonbird
*Toheroa shellfish soup
Netherlands
* Nieuwe haring (new herring)
* Stroopwafels
* Drop: licorice sweets (sometimes salt)
* (Haagse) hopjes: coffee sweets
* cheese (different types)
Norway
*Lutefisk
*Smalahove
Peru
* Pisco sour - National drink, made with Pisco liquor, lime juice and sugar.
* Ceviche - Raw fish pieces in lime juice, with chili.
* Lomo saltado
* Carapulcra
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
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
Russia
*Caviar
*Hot smoked Sturgeon
South Africa
*Boerewors Farmers sausage
*Biltong Dried spiced meat
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
Sri Lanka
*Koththu Roti
*Hoppers
*String Hoppers
*Wild Boar
Sweden
*Almond potato
*Lingonberry
*Surströmming
*Cloudberry
United Kingdom
*Black pudding
*Jellied eels
*Lobster
*Oysters
* Wild salmon including smoked salmon
*Venison
*Haggis
United States
*Dry aged beef
*Dungeness crab
*Fiddlehead ferns
*Maryland blue crab
*Maine lobster
*Morel mushrooms
*Olympia Oysters
*Florida Stone Crab Claws
*Rocky Mountain oysters
*Smoked Salmon
Vietnam
*Bánh chÆ°ng
*Bánh tét
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