Recent crowd pleasers include korokke (Japanese-style sweet potato cakes), casado (a Costa Rican meal of steak, rice, black beans, plantains and salad) and chicama cerviche de mero (grouper cerviche with passion fruit, japanese cucumber, red pepper, guava, red onion and tiger milk).

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Caretakers decided to mark Little Mama's birthday each Valentine's Day, since she has a sweet tooth: Cakes, pies and sodas are among her favorite foods.

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Sweet delights such as cakes and muffins are also available -- because no one ever said being veggie meant counting calories, after all.

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After dining upon the requisite Maryland blue crab cakes at the Rockfish, scoop up a sweet treat at the decades-old Storm Bros.

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