Diporto Taverna, Athens’ underground restaurant, has been too legit to quit for 130+ years. Everyone knows about it. And you should still go.

Peranakan food is a unique combination of Chinese, Malaysian, Indonesian and Indian flavours born from immigration, but the 100-year-old cuisine still doesn’t get the recognition it deserves.

Hidden in a supermarket deep within Doncaster Shopping Centre, Colonial Coffee Cafe sells some of the most affordable and traditional Malaysian, Nyonya and Singaporean cuisine in Melbourne.

This small cafe at the top end of Melbourne CBD specialises in colourful traditional kueh desserts, Malaysian chicken curry pies, egg and spam rolls and nostalgia-inspired cakes.

Eating breakfast at a kopitiam in Singapore is essential. Here’s everything you need to know about one of the most popular traditional coffee houses.

Insanely quick and easy to cook, otak-otak is an aromatic fish cake wrapped in banana leaves and grilled over charcoal that’s popular in Southeast Asia.

There are plenty of regional specialties to try on Sifnos island in Greece, but if you want to take a piece of this magical place home with you, here’s where to go for souvenirs.

From avocado toast and bush tucker, to craft beer infused with native ingredients and where to buy finger lime trees, here’s a list of products, cafes and restaurants from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island business owners.

The tiny island of Sifnos is responsible for Greece’s first celebrity chef, time-honoured dishes cooked in ceramic pots and food that keeps culinary traditions alive.

Recommended by Thai friends, you won’t find this khao gaeng restaurant in any of the guidebooks. Food doesn’t get more local than at Pa-Daeng Kitchen.

To everyone retracing the footsteps of Anthony Bourdain and Mark Weins to eat Bougatsa in Chania, Crete – you went to the wrong place.

When Jinda opened in 2013, it introduced me to traditional Thai food – that is, the kind you eat in Thailand.

Peruvian chef Alejandro Saravia shares a simple recipe for salmon saltado, a pescatarian-friendly version of the popular Chinese-Peruvian dish, lomo saltado.

Eel chowder so good a Nobel Prize winner wrote a poem about it. A tiny town in Patagonia obsessed with Welsh afternoon tea. Uruguayan gnocchi that could make you rich. There’s more to these quirky South American dishes than what’s on the plate.

Chef Hamed Allahyari from Cafe Sunshine and SalamaTea Restaurant shares his sabzi polo recipe; fragrant herbed rice eaten during Nowruz (Persian New Year).