Street Snacks

🇰🇭Cambodia

Num Por Pia

នំប៉ោយបៀ

Deep-fried spring rolls filled with minced pork, glass noodles, taro, and vegetables, served with lettuce, herbs, and a sweet fish sauce dip.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Nunor Bora

নুনের বড়া

Rice-flour batter mixed with onion, ginger and turmeric and dropped into oil to make small savoury fritters.

🇺🇸United States

Nutburger

A vegetarian patty made from ground nuts, grains, and vegetables — a health-food café staple.

🇸🇮Prekmurje, Slovenia

Ocvirkove pogačice

Ocvirkove pogačice are Prekmurje small pastries folded with pork cracklings and baked until crisp.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ojojo

A Yoruba water yam fritter, grated and spiced with pepper and onion, deep-fried until crisp, served with a pepper sauce or pap.

🇮🇹Marche, Italy

Olive Ascolane

Marche's stuffed green olives: large Ascolana olives filled with seasoned minced meat, breaded and fried. A signature antipasto and street snack.

🇧🇿Northern Belize, Belize

Orange Walk Tacos

Street tacos from Orange Walk, Belize: soft corn tortillas piled with stewed chicken, cabbage slaw, and a bright tomato-onion salsa.

🇮🇳India

Pakora

पकोड़ा

A deep-fried fritter made by dipping vegetables in spiced gram flour batter. It is a monsoon snack across India.

🇨🇺Cuba

Pan con lechón

A Cuban roast pork sandwich of slow-roasted lechón, onions, and mojo on pressed Cuban bread.

🇺🇸United States

Pan con minuta

A Tampa Cuban-Caribbean sandwich of fried or grilled fish fillets with onions and lime on Cuban bread.

🇨🇺Cuba

Pan con timba

A Cuban sandwich of sweet fried plantain, ham, and cheese on crusty bread.

🇧🇿Belize

Panades

Corn masa turnovers filled with mashed refried beans or seasoned fish, deep-fried and topped with a pickled onion and habanero relish.

🇳🇷Nauru

Pandanus and Banana Fritters

Pandanus banana fritters combine ripe banana and pandanus fruit with batter, then are fried into crisp-edged street snacks.

🇮🇹Sicily, Italy

Panelle

Sicilian chickpea fritters, often in a sesame roll.

🇨🇴Colombia

Papa Rellena

A Peruvian fried potato croquette, crisp outside and filled with seasoned beef, raisins, olives and egg. A popular snack and appetizer.

🇮🇳India

Papad

पापड़

A thin, crispy, sun-dried flatbread made from lentil or rice flour. It is roasted or fried and served with meals.

🇨🇴Colombia

Papaya Verde

A Colombian street snack of green (unripe) papaya sliced and served with salt, lime, and chili. A tart, crunchy Caribbean-coast snack.

🇮🇳India

Papdi Chaat

पापड़ी चाट

A North Indian chaat of crispy fried dough wafers topped with potato, yogurt, chutneys, and spices. It is creamy and crunchy.

🇬🇮Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Papitas

Papitas are Gibraltar’s ridged fried potato-dough sticks, a local snack distinct from Spanish flour-based porras.

🇭🇳Honduras

Pastelitos de Carne

Honduran meat turnovers of golden, flaky pastry filled with seasoned ground beef, potatoes, and sometimes olives and raisins.

🇵🇹Portugal

Pataniscas

Salt cod fritters bound in a light flour-and-egg batter with onion and garlic.

🇮🇳India

Patra

પાત્રા

A Gujarati snack of colocasia leaves smeared with spiced gram flour paste, rolled, steamed, and fried. It is tangy and crunchy.

🇺🇸United States

Patty Melt

A thin beef patty with caramelized onions and melted Swiss between griddled rye bread.

🇮🇳Mumbai, India

Pav Bhaji

पाव भाजी

A Mumbai street food of mashed vegetables cooked with spices and served with buttered bread rolls. It is tangy, spicy, and buttery.

🇺🇸United States

Peacemaker

A New Orleans fried-oyster loaf: a hollowed French loaf stuffed with fried oysters, dressed with lettuce, tomato, and remoulade.

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Peanut Cake

Kanya

A crumbly, sweet Sierra Leonean peanut snack made by pounding rice flour, peanuts, and sugar into small, dense cakes or balls; an energy-boosting street snack sold by women balancing trays on their heads.

🇬🇾Guyana

Pholourie

Phulourie

Split-pea batter dropped in spoonfuls into hot oil and fried into soft balls, eaten with tamarind or mango chutney.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Phở cuốn (Pho Rolls)

Phở cuốn

Pho cuon, sheets of fresh pho noodle wrapped around grilled beef and herbs, is a named Hanoi dish invented on Ngu Xa street and is not a pho permutation.

🇺🇸United States

Pimento Cheeseburger

A burger topped with melted pimento cheese spread.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Piyaju

পিঁয়াজু

Fritters of soaked split lentils ground coarse with onion, green chilli and coriander, then deep-fried into rough patties.

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Plantain Chips

Thin green-plantain slices fried crisp as a Sierra Leonean market and roadside snack.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Plantain Chips Seychellois

Chips de banane plantain

Thin plantain slices fried crisp and salted as an island snack.

🇭🇳Honduras

Pollo Chuco (Pollo con Tajadas)

Honduran street food of fried chicken served over fried green plantain chips with cabbage slaw and a tangy sauce.

🇸🇮Upper Carniola, Slovenia

Posmodula

Posmodula is a Kranj-area snack of baked dough topped with a savoury cheese or crackling mixture.

🇺🇸United States

Potato chips

Thin, crisp slices of fried potato, salted — the American snack-food icon.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Poulles

Πούλλες

Poulles are soaked fava beans split and fried until blistered, then salted and eaten as a Cypriot tavern snack.