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
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
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
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

Peru

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

• List of brand name snack foods
• List of Indian snacks
• List of Indonesian snacks
• List of Japanese snacks
• List of snack foods

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