A Bangladeshi student learns to use chopsticks in Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei Province, on April 19. Photo: VCG People in Bangladesh usually eat with their right hands at home. Until recently, however, it was almost widely common to see Bangladesh...

A rare bottle of 1951 Penfolds Grange wine sold for $57,763 at an online auction on December 16, setting a new record price for the vintage, Australian media outlets reported on Monday. The Penfolds Grange variety is considered the most collectable Aust...

Saffron flowers Photo: AFP Women pick saffron flowers in a field in the Taliouine region in southwestern Morocco on November 7. Photo: AFP Saffron farmers in southern Morocco have long taken pride in the coveted spice they produce from the purple-petall...

Gingerbread cakes on display in a shop window in Torun, Poland, on December 19 Photo: VCG A worker prepares gingerbread in the Kopernik Confectionery Factory in Torun, Poland, on December 19. Photo: VCG A traditional wooden mold for baking gingerbread P...

French oysters Photo: IC Gulping down oysters has long been a favorite New Year's Eve ritual for the French, but as winters get warmer and summers get drier many growers worry there will soon be fewer of the prized mollusks to go around. "Twenty years a...

Photo: IC Photo: VCG "If you could make any dish in the world disappear, what would it be?" When this question was asked of Chua Lam, a well-known Singaporean columnist and food critic, while he was on Chinese talk show Day Day Up in December of 2018, h...

Pakistani butcher Nisar Charsi prepares meat in his restaurant in Namak Mandi in Peshawar on December 6, 2018. Photo: VCG Grilled meat at the Nisar Charsi Tikka restaurant in Namak Mandi in Peshawar. Photo: VCG The sweet aroma of mutton smoke drifts thr...

At dawn, Buddhist temples across China started to hand out free Laba congee, a special meal served during the Laba Festival, which ushers in China's New Year celebrations. Despite the winter cold, tourists and citizens in Nanjing, capital of East China'...

Bubble Milk Tea Cake Photo: Sina Weibo Crawfish Sandwich Photo: Sina Weibo The real hotpot seasoning (left) and the Hotpot Seasoning Cake Photo: IC and Can you imagine cheese flowing down a hamburger like a waterfall? Have you ever eaten the cake that l...

A waitress at the Fook Wing Gei restaurant in Beijing pours sauce on a rice roll dish. Photo: Li Hao/GT Youngcall (left) and Joel Shuchat Photo: Li Hao/GT On a cold winter day in Beijing, the noise of construction interrupts the silence of an ancient hu...