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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
South America
Peru
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
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