BANGLADESH FOOD PASSPORT · EDITION 02
Methodology
What the passport measures
Edition 02 holds 120 curated food experiences. Your score is how many you have tried. It is not a measure of how Bangladeshi you are, and there is no cultural-authenticity score. Two people with the same number can have very different passports, and that difference is the point.
A curated passport, not a canon
The 120 are chosen to cover everyday home-table food, rivers and coast, feasts, street and tong culture, pitha and winter, sweets, fruit and seasonal treats, regional specialities and the less-known food traditions of the north, the haor, the delta and the hills. Many beloved foods are not in it, and that says nothing about their worth. It is not an official or definitive list.
Associations, not origins
When a food is linked to a place, it is an association (for example “Associated with Sylhet”), not a claim of origin or exclusive ownership. Foods eaten everywhere carry no regional link, and where the evidence is thin we leave the place out rather than guess. Popularity somewhere is never treated as geography.
What you see in your result
Completion is tried out of 120. Culinary worlds are the eight kinds of food in the passport, and you see how many you have touched. Food territories count the divisions where you have tried a regionally associated food. Nationwide foods never fill a territory. Your food fingerprint shows eight separate dimensions side by side instead of one combined score: home table, river and fish, feast and meat, street and tong, pitha and winter, sweets, regional and seasonal.
Taste DNA and personas
Taste DNA comes from your favourites only, and appears once you have favourited enough foods for a pattern to mean something. Trying a spicy dish does not make you a spice lover. Personas and insights follow fixed, ordered rules. The same stamps always give the same passport, and every persona is a positive one.
Editions stay as they were
Edition 01 (64 foods) and Edition 02 (120 foods) are different passports. An Edition 01 result stays an Edition 01 result, out of 64, and is never rescored against Edition 02. If you made an Edition 01 passport, you can upgrade and your stamps carry over.
Participant statistics
If aggregate numbers are shown later, they describe Deshi participants, not Bangladesh as a whole.
Participants can share broad, self-reported context: where they are based, the place they associate with childhood or home, and an age group. Later comparisons may be segmented by these. People who choose to take part are not a representative sample, so any such finding describes Deshi participants only.
Dhaka Survival
Dhaka Survival uses 56 curated, self-reported Dhaka experiences. For each one you choose Never, Been there or This is my life. The Survival Level is simply the percentage of the 56 you have been through (47 of 56 is a level of 84). “This is my life” adds intensity to your profile, but it never raises the score, so living through more misery does not mean more status.
The six city instincts, your persona, signature and stamps are fixed rules applied to your answers. They are patterns for fun, not psychological or medical assessments, and not a test of resilience. If statistics are shown later, they describe Deshi participants only, not everyone in Dhaka.
Credits
Division boundaries are simplified from geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0), geoboundaries.org.
Deshi by Obsidian Global Studio