HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — To the Western palate, dining on bird spit may sound unappetizing. But to people here and across Asia, it is a highly coveted delicacy. Nests made from the congealed saliva ...

Bird's nest is a delicacy found in Chinese-speaking countries across Asia. It's made from the hardened saliva of a swiftlet and can fetch up to S$3,500 ($2,600 USD) per kilogram. Swiftlet farms have ...

Bird's Nest soup is a famous delicacy in Chinese cuisine, known for being made from the nests of Edible-nest swiftlets. These birds, native to South Asia, create their nests using their own saliva. In ...

Balancing on a bamboo platform suspended dozens of meters up in the Madai cave in Malaysian Borneo, a man vigorously tears cup-shaped protrusions off the rock wall. They’re bird’s nests and will soon ...