Exotic Fruits, Coconut Bacon, Asian Eats: 10 Hot Topics On Food Republic

Foods that you can find in the U.S.? Coconut bacon, French onion pho and mung bean pork belly pancakes. In fact, we ran stories on all three delicacies this week, providing videos and recipes and even predicting that one of them might hit it big in 2016. Foods that you might not be able to find in the U.S.? Any one of the 15 exotic fruits — hailing from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia and everywhere in between — we compiled in infographic form. We tackled important questions like whether or not you should wash your rice before cooking it and where to find the best Asian eats in Portland, Oregon. All that and more on this week's Hot Topics on Food Republic.

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Our video of chef Beverly Kim making mung bean pork belly pancakes.