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. Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged and processed foods and items made from fresh ingredients at home.

Asia

India

Indonesia

NameImageDescription
DodolRice flour-based small glutinous sweets, sweetened with coconut sugar, moulded and coloured. Often add fruit scent and taste such as durian.
EmpingCrackers made from flattened Gnemon/Belinjo seeds.
GorenganFritters from Indonesia
KleponBoiled rice cake, stuffed with coconut sugar, and rolled in fresh grated coconut. It is flavoured with pandan leaves juice.
KripikA traditional chips or crisps, bite-size snack crackers that can be savoury or sweet.
KrupukDeep 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.
LemperA traditional rice cake, made from glutinous rice and filled usually with chicken.
Otak-otakUsually made from Spanish mackarel fish paste or Milkfish, spiced and wrapped in banana leaves, then grilled and served with peanut sauce.
Perkedel jagungIndonesian style corn fritter
Pisang gorengA battered and deep-fried banana or plantain.

Japan

Malaysia and Singapore

NameImageDescription
Apam balikSweet turnover pancake common in Southeaast Asia.
Curry puffA type of snack or kuih. Usually filled with chicken and potato with a dried curry inside.
Keropok lekorA keropok that is made from fish.
Roti JohnA popular Malay sandwich in Malaysia and Singapore.

Maldives

NameImageDescription
GulhaSmall savory ball-shaped dumplings that are stuffed with a mixture of tuna, onion, coconut, curry leaves and chili and then deep fried

South America

Peru

NameImageDescription
ChifleA fried plantain snack from Peru and Ecuador

Brazil