List of snack foods by country

This is a list of snack foods by country, specific to or originating in a particular community or region. Snack food is a portion of food often smaller than a regular meal, generally eaten as snacking between meals.[1] Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged and processed foods and items made from fresh ingredients at home.

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Asia

India
Main article: List of Indian snacks
See also: Indian cuisine

Indonesia
Main article: List of Indonesian snacks
See also: Indonesian cuisine, Kue, Krupuk, and Kripik
Name Image Description
Dodol Rice flour-based small glutinous sweets, sweetened with coconut sugar, moulded and coloured. Often added fruit scent and taste such as durian
Emping Crackers made from flattened Gnemon/Belinjo seeds
Gorengan Fritters from Indonesia
Klepon Boiled rice cake, stuffed with coconut sugar, and rolled in fresh grated coconut. It is flavoured with pandan leaves juice.
Kripik A traditional chips or crisps, bite-size snack crackers that can be savoury or sweet
Krupuk Deep fried crisps made from mainly tapioca flour, with added ingredients, such as prawn, fish, or garlic, and even ox/cow skin. It comes in different shapes and colours.
Lemper A traditional rice cake, made from glutinous rice and filled usually with chicken
Otak-otak Usually made from Spanish mackerel fish paste or Milkfish, spiced and wrapped in banana leaves, then grilled and served with peanut sauce
Perkedel jagung Indonesian style corn fritter
Pisang goreng A battered and deep-fried banana or plantain

Japan
Main article: List of Japanese snacks

Malaysia and Singapore
See also: Malaysian cuisine and Singaporean cuisine
Name Image Description
Apam balik
Sweet turnover pancake common in Southeast Asia.
Curry puff
A type of snack or kuih. Usually filled with chicken and potato with a dried curry inside.
Keropok lekor
A keropok that is made from fish.
Roti John
A popular Malay sandwich in Malaysia and Singapore.

Maldives
See also: Maldivian cuisine
Name Image Description
Gulha Small savory ball-shaped dumplings that are stuffed with a mixture of tuna, onion, coconut, curry leaves and chili and then deep fried[2]

Taiwan
Name Image Description
Aiyu jelly
A jelly made from the gel from the seeds of the awkeotsang creeping fig found in Taiwan.
Pineapple cake
A sweet traditional Taiwanese pastry containing butter, flour, egg, sugar, and pineapple jam or slices.
Suncake (Taiwan)
A popular Taiwanese dessert originally from the city of Taichung, Taiwan.
Taro ball
A traditional Taiwanese cuisine dessert made of taro

South America

Peru
See also: Peruvian cuisine
Name Image Description
Chifle A fried plantain snack from Peru and Ecuador

Brazil
Name Image Description
Coxinha A chopped or shredded chicken meat, covered in dough and molded into a shape resembling a chicken leg, battered and fried
Paçoca A Brazilian candy made out of ground peanuts, sugar and salt
Pastel A half-circle or rectangle-shaped thin crust pies with assorted fillings, fried in vegetable oil

See also

References
  1. "Definition of Snack at Dictionary.com". Retrieved 2011-03-13.
  2. Xavier Romero-Frias, The Maldive Islanders, A Study of the Popular Culture of an Ancient Ocean Kingdom, Barcelona 1999, ISBN 84-7254-801-5
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