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Fleeting Foods

Ripe peanut butter fruit growing in the summer.

Peanut Butter Fruit

Its pulp tastes just like the creamy spread.

Tempe goreng and tahu bacem with urap sayur (vegetables sprinkled with coconut).

Queens, New York

Indonesian Food Bazaar at St. James Episcopal Church

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

Queens, New York

5 de Mayo Food Market

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

Nimish

Sweet-makers conjure up this light-as-a-cloud cream pudding on dewy nights in Lucknow, India.

Most people would just walk by this fruit, rich with history and culinary potential.

Strawberry Tree Fruit

The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.

The inside of hala fruits contain vibrant colors and sweet nectar.

6 Fruits With Surprising Flavors

Why settle for a banana when you could be tasting lemon meringue pie?

The Gastro Obscura Team February 1, 2018

Delicious vanilla snow cream, made from snow, vanilla extract, and condensed milk.

Snow Cream

Ice cream made with fresh snow is a beloved Southern tradition.

As the scales fall away, a delicious corn-looking fruit appears beneath.

Monstera Deliciosa

This fruit either burns your throat or tastes like a tropical medley.

The many "shelves" of Laetiporus sulphureus.

Chicken of the Woods

This mushroom tastes just like chicken.

A close-up of the candy's fine strands and crunchy filling.

Dragon's Beard Candy

The ancient confection consists of wispy sugar-strands that look like dragon whiskers.

The first sign a rollinia has started to age: blackened spikes.

Rollinia

Brazil's spiky yellow fruit has lemon meringue–flavored insides.

Sometimes the entire tree is cut down to harvest the sap.

Palm Wine

It takes only two hours for palm sap to become palm wine.