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.
Main article: List of Indian snacks |
See also: Indian cuisine |
Main article: List of Indonesian snacks |
See also: Indonesian cuisine, Kue, Krupuk, and Kripik |
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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 |
Main article: List of Japanese snacks |
See also: Malaysian cuisine and Singaporean cuisine |
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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. |
See also: Maldivian cuisine |
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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] |
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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 |
See also: Peruvian cuisine |
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Chifle | A fried plantain snack from Peru and Ecuador |
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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 |