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.
Asia
India
Indonesia
Name | Image | Description |
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Dodol | ![]() |
Rice flour-based small glutinous sweets, sweetened with coconut sugar, moulded and coloured. Often add 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 mackarel 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
Malaysia and Singapore
Name | Image | Description |
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Apam balik | ![]() |
Sweet turnover pancake common in Southeaast 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
Name | Image | Description |
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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] |
South America
Brazil
Name | Image | Description |
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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
- List of brand name snack foods
- List of Indian snacks
- List of Indonesian snacks
- List of Japanese snacks
- List of snack foods
References
- "Definition of Snack at Dictionary.com". Retrieved 2011-03-13.
- 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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