Ten of the most exotic desserts in the world

When traveling around the world, do not rush to order a familiar cheesecake or tiramisu for dessert. Don't miss the opportunity to try unusual sweets!

Ice cream in liquid nitrogen
Manila, Philippines
While NASA has long mastered the technology of freezing food for astronauts, only a few particularly brave chefs dare to rise to new frontiers of molecular gastronomy and offer guests something similar. One such pioneer lives in Manila. His signature dish is ice cream, which is made with liquid nitrogen. In the line of flavors of the cold delicacy you will find rose, lavender, and even eggs and bacon!




Dark chocolate
Chicago, USA
Don't be fooled by such a banal name of this sweet on the menu of the Chicago restaurant Alinea. If you order a seemingly modest dessert, you will be in for a truly theatrical performance: several chaotic lines will be drawn on the countertop in front of you with bright red lingonberry jam and yellow molasses. Then they will install huge chocolate balls, the size of bowling alleys, fill them with frozen persimmons, honey and cranberry pudding, and then ruthlessly smash them, creating a real abstract work of art.



Cherpumple
Los Angeles, USA
Are you always tormented, which dessert to prefer? Try Cherpumple, a tall cake consisting of classic American delicacies stacked on top of each other: apple, cherry and pumpkin pies, smeared with cheese frosting. For the first time, this dish was invented by a Los Angeles humorist, and a year later, chefs throughout California experimented with different fillings - the giant sweetness appealed to everyone, except for those who watch their weight, because a piece of this delicacy contains 1800 calories.



Golden Sultan Cake
Istanbul, Turkey
This sumptuous, sultan-like or king-worthy dessert can be enjoyed at the restaurant of Istanbul's five-star Ciragan Palace Hotel. A cake made from a fantastic mixture of figs, apricots, quince, pickled pears and Jamaican rum, at least two years old, Polynesian vanilla and caramelized truffles, is prepared for three days. At the end, the cake is covered with edible flakes made of the thinnest plates of 24-carat gold, making it look like a large gold bar.



Candies with fried filling
Scotland, United Kingdom
Rumor has it that this dish appeared after some of the chefs of this region decided to fry a Mars bar about 15 years ago. Since then, fried sweets have become very popular in Scottish fast foods. However, it is not necessary to go overseas, you can easily cook such a dish at home by choosing your favorite chocolate bar as the filling and frying it in dough.



"Green dysentery"
Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei is famous for its unusual restaurants, there is also an ultra-fashionable institution in this city under the "tasteless" name Modern Toilet. Among other dishes, usually reminiscent of something completely unappetizing, which will invariably be brought to you in bowls that look like hospital ducks, do not forget to order the dessert "Green dysentery". For the faint of heart, let's explain that, in fact, it has nothing to do with diseases - it is ice cream with kiwi and strawberry sauce.



"English Breakfast"
Dublin, Ireland
Order Chef Vicky MacDonald's English Breakfast dessert in Dublin and you'll see a plate of fried eggs, a slice of bread, fried bacon and sausage. But once you try this dish, you will realize that the "blood sausage" is actually made from peanut butter sponge cake and white chocolate cookies, scrambled eggs are panna cotta with a lemon circle. Vicky spent a lot of time figuring out how to give the dessert an incredibly believable look like a classic English breakfast!



Ais Kacang
Malaysia and Singapore
If you're in Malaysia and Singapore, be sure to try the very popular local dessert – a strange ice cream made from red beans, sweet corn and lychee, green jelly and condensed milk. Red beans are an invariable base, and then variations begin: the delicacy is garnished with different seeds, pieces of durian, agar-based jelly, strawberry syrup. If this ice cream still doesn't seem strange enough to you, then order a dessert of green noodles soaked in coconut milk with brown sugar.



Devil’s Tres Leches
Los Angeles, USA
Los Angeles Mexican fusion restaurant Chego offers a very special dessert with a strange name that can be translated as "Three Devil's Milks". You'll immediately understand why it's called so if you try this cake based on condensed milk, generously seasoned with cinnamon and cayenne pepper with tapioca pudding and spicy peanut seeds. If you find yourself in this restaurant, then you should try other delicacies, such as crispy chocolate with rice, flaky caramel and chili sauce.



Tavuk Göğsü
Istanbul, Turkey
Can't live without meat? Then you will appreciate this chicken dessert, which is quite common in Turkey. It is made from minced chicken breasts, sweetened rice, milk, sugar and flour, and sprinkled with cinnamon and almonds on top. During the Ottoman Empire, such a delicacy pudding was often served on the table in the main sultan's residence, the Topkapi Palace.



Source: turist.rbc.ru