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 of a dish causes it to be comparatively expensive to other local foods.

This is a List of national delicacies. This list is sorted from where the food originated from. Many of these dishes may be normal to one culture, however to other cultures may seem bizarre.

List of delicacies

Cambodia

• Cobra blood
• Fried River Snakes
• Prahok
• Sparrows

Canada

• Dried Cod
• Lobster

China

• Abalone
• Bird's nest
• Duck tongues
• Duck and Geese webbed feet
• Fried Grasshoppers
• Geoduck clam
• Shanghai hairy crab
• Sea cucumber
• Fish maw
• Shark fin soup

France

• Calf brains
• Escargot
• Foie gras
• Frog legs
• Ortolan
• Sweetbread
• Truffle
• Tartare

India

• Cock
• Malabari paratha
• Thayir sadam

Italy

• Balsamic vinegar
• Bottarga
• Chestnuts
• Porcini Mushrooms
• White truffle
• Wild Boar

Japan

• Anglerfish
• Fugu - Poisonous pufferfish.
• Kobe beef
• Matsuzaka beef
• Odori ebi – Live baby prawns
• Sake kawa – Fried or roasted salmon skin
• Toro - fatty belly meat of Northern bluefin tuna
• Uni - sea urchin roe

New Zealand

• Bluff oysters
• Huhu grubs
• Whitebait
• Kina - Sea egg
• Paua - Abalone
• Mutton bird

Russia

• Caviar

Sweden

• Almond potato
• Surströmming

United States

• USDA prime-grade, Dry aged beef
• Dungeness crab
• Fiddlehead ferns
• Maryland blue crab
• Maine lobster
• Morel mushrooms
• Olympia oysters
• Long Island Duck or Peking Duck

Sources

• Footage Store Mentions Cobra blood and Fried snakes
• Ecology in Cambodia Mentions sparrows as delicacy

Lists of foods