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1. We start our bus tour with a trip to India. The streets are bustling with vendors and buyers. I purchase a vegetable dish named 'aloo gobi', which gets its name from the two main ingredients in Hindi. 'Gobi' is the word for what ingredient?
2. One of the most popular streetfoods of the Philippines, the next country on our tour, is balut. Balut is a food based on the duck, but how is the duck prepared in 'balut'?
3. Ah, a beautiful oceanside seafood restaurant here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. You order the catch of the day, and you are served one of the most commonly eaten fish on the islands. What colorful fish are you eating?
4. Our next stop lands in my homeland, the United States. For lunch, we stop at the most typical of American cuisine, fast food. We eat at the largest fast food hamburger chain in the world, McDonald's. Which one of these ingredients appears only once in the 13 layers of McDonald's magnum opus, the Big Mac?
5. We now arrive at the food court of the Mali (notice the pun). Malian cuisine is mostly based on cereal grains, including what grain that in 2007, Mali was the 6th largest producer of in the world?
6. While in the island nation of Palau, I saw the strangest looking meal so far on the trip. Sure, I could have eaten traditional coconuts or fish like you would on other Oceanic islands, but I wanted to try something new. What 'fruit' based item does Palau sell?
7. After I was singing in Bahrain, the next country on the list, I stopped to get a very traditional meal in Bahrain, 'shawarma'. What other food does shawarma resemble?
8. As we arrive to China, we stop at a nice restaurant and eat some culture foods including zongzi, cha ye dan, and beef noodle soup. As we are preparing to go, should we expect to receive a fortune cookie?
9. We are now visiting the fourth smallest country in the world, Tuvalu. Just like most Oceanic islands, fishing, bananas, and coconuts are the main source of food. Tuvalu also features the 'pulaka', a large tuber plant that is much like taro. Which of these describes where pulaka is grown?
10. After driving through South Africa for so long, we land in Lesotho, the last leg of our first 10-day tour. We venture to try some of the native foods, and we pick a fruit from the rosa rubiginosa plant. What other name does this plant go by?
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