Street Snacks

🇰🇭Skuon, Cambodia

A-ping

អា-pin្លិង

Deep-fried Thai zebra tarantula, a street food of Skuon in Kampong Cham province, seasoned with garlic, salt, and sugar.

🇧🇷Bahia, Brazil

Abará

A Afro-Bahian steamed dish of black-eyed pea paste wrapped in banana leaves, filled with dried shrimp, onion, and dendê oil.

🇹🇬Togo

Ablo

Rice or corn flour beignets; steamed then sometimes fried; small, round, slightly sweet; a popular street food; served with sauce or as a snack.

🇨🇴Colombia

Aborrajado

Ripe plantain slices stuffed with cheese and guava paste (bocadillo), battered and deep-fried until golden. A sweet-savoury Valle del Cauca specialty, beloved in Cali and along the Caribbean coast.

🇧🇷Bahia, Brazil

Acarajé

Deep-fried black-eyed pea fritters split open and filled with vatapá, caruru, dried shrimp, hot sauce, and salad, rooted in Afro-Bahian cuisine.

🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau

Accara

Black-eyed peas peeled, ground and whipped with onion and chilli, then dropped into hot oil and served in bread with pepper sauce.

🇮🇹Italy

Acciughe sotto pesto

Acciughe sotto pesto is a named Italian street snack from Province of Siena, made as a distinctive flour-based or filled form with the ingredients and cooking finish associated with that local tradition.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Accra Banane

Overripe plantain mashed with flour, sugar and nutmeg and fried into small dark fritters.

🇬🇭Ghana

Agbeli Kaklo

Ewe cassava fritters made from grated cassava, onion and pepper, fried into rough golden cakes.

🇬🇭Ghana

Akara

Àkàrà

Peeled black-eyed beans ground with onion and pepper, whipped until airy and deep-fried in balls, eaten hot for breakfast with pap or bread.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Akara Elepo

A palm-oil-fried akara variation with a deeper colour and roasted, savoury bean flavour.

🇭🇹Haiti

Akra

Grated malanga root beaten with epis, scotch bonnet and a little flour, then dropped in spoonfuls into hot oil.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Alcapurria

A dough of grated green banana and yautía shaped around picadillo or crab and deep fried into a dark torpedo.

🇲🇱Mali

Alfintà

Malian millet fritters cooked in a shallow pan until browned and crisp.

🇨🇦Canada

All-Dressed Chips

Chips tout garni

True Canadian flavor combining sweet, salty, and savory flavors, uniquely Canadian potato chip variety from Quebec.

🇹🇬Togo

Alloco

Ripe plantain cut into thick slices and fried in red palm oil until the sugars catch, served with raw onion and a chilli sauce.

🇬🇾Guyana

Aloo Pie

A fried dough pocket filled with spiced mashed potatoes, a popular Indo-Caribbean street snack in Guyana. Split open and topped with chickpea curry, chutney and pepper sauce.

🇮🇳India

Aloo Tikki

आलू टिक्की

A North Indian street food of spiced potato patties fried until crisp and served with chutneys and yogurt. Often part of chaat.

🇮🇳India

Anda bhurji (Egg bhurji)

अंडा भुर्जी

Eggs are scrambled with onion, tomato, green chilli, and spices on a hot tawa.

🇦🇷Argentina

Anguyá

A fried mandioca and sweet-potato cheese fritter from Corrientes, made by the Cocineros del Iberá network. A rustic, crispy snack from the northeast wetlands.

🇧🇴Bolivia

Api con Pastel

A classic Andean breakfast of hot, thick purple corn drink (api morado) sweetened with cinnamon and cloves, served with a fried cheese pastry (pastel de queso) dusted with sugar.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Arañitas

Dominican 'little spiders': grated green plantain mixed with garlic and salt, fried until crispy and lacy. A crunchy plantain fritter, served with aji or hot sauce.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Arepitas de Yuca

Dominican cassava fritters made from grated yuca with eggs, sugar and anise, fried until crisp and lacy.

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Arrowroot Fritters

Delicate and slightly sweet fritters made from native arrowroot flour, infused with nutmeg and coconut, then lightly fried to a golden crisp; a distinctive Vincentian specialty; naturally gluten-free; the arrowroot fritters of Saint Vincent; a crispy, subtly sweet treat

🇪🇸Catalonia, Spain

Artichoke Chips

Chips de alcachofa

Chips de alcachofa are thin Catalan artichoke slices fried until crisp, with the vegetable's layered leaves clearly visible.

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Attoukpou

Attiéké bound with egg or flour, pressed into cakes and fried until the outside crisps, sold as a snack with chilli.

🇲🇺Mauritius

Aubergine Fritters

Gato brinzel

Rounds of aubergine dipped in a spiced chickpea-flour batter and deep fried.

🇲🇿Mozambique

Badjias

Ground black-eyed peas or lentils spiced with chilli and coriander and fried in spoonfuls into rough fritters.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Baiganee

Slices of aubergine dipped in a spiced split-pea batter and deep-fried.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Fish Cakes

Fish cakes

Salt cod flaked into a seasoned batter with herbs and hot pepper, dropped by the spoonful into hot oil and sold hot by the bag.

🇸🇴Somalia

Bajiyo

Somali fried bean or lentil cakes seasoned with onion and chili.

🇩🇯Djibouti

Bajiyos

Thin potato slices coated in spiced chickpea and rice-flour batter, then deep-fried until crisp; a popular Djiboutian street snack for Ramadan afternoons.

🇸🇷Suriname

Bakabana

Slices of ripe plantain in a light batter, deep fried and served with peanut sauce.

🇩🇲Dominica

Bakes and Saltfish

The classic Dominican breakfast or quick lunch; bakes are fried dumplings of flour and water, served alongside saltfish (salted cod, rehydrated and sauteed with onions, peppers, and tomatoes); cheap, filling, and ubiquitous in markets and at street stalls; the bakes and saltfish of Dominica; a standard Dominican breakfast; a Caribbean classic.

🇮🇱Israel

Bamba

במבה

Puffed corn snack coated in peanut butter, made since 1964 and eaten by essentially every Israeli child.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Bambalouni

بمبالوني

Ring of yeasted dough deep-fried to order and rolled in granulated sugar, sold from small windows and eaten immediately.