Street Snacks

🇳🇬Nigeria

Puff Puff

Balls of sweetened yeast batter dropped into hot oil by hand and fried until deep brown and hollow inside.

🇧🇴Bolivia

Qaras Cancha

A traditional Bolivian toasted corn snack, crunchy and salty, often sold by street vendors.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Quarkbällchen

Quarkbällchen are small fried dough balls enriched with quark, crisp outside and tender inside, often rolled in sugar.

🇳🇮Nicaragua

Quesillo

A Nicaraguan snack of tortilla wrapped around cheese, pickled onions, and cream, a daily and street classic

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Quipe Lleno

A larger, stuffed quipe variant with more ground beef filling, served as a main dish or large snack. A hearty Lebanese-Dominican specialty, crispy and savory.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Quipes

Dominican fried bulgur wheat rolls stuffed with seasoned ground beef, onions, and spices, of Lebanese origin. A street and bakery staple, crispy and savory.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Quẩy (Vietnamese Crullers)

Quẩy

Quay, the Vietnamese fried cruller dunked into pho and chao, is a named item with a fixed role at the table.

🇮🇳Mumbai, India

Ragda Patties

रगड़ा पैटिस

A Mumbai chaat of potato patties topped with white pea curry, chutneys, and sev. It is sweet, spicy, and filling.

🇮🇳India

Raj Kachori

राज कचौरी

A large, crispy kachori filled with potato, chickpeas, yogurt, chutneys, and sev. It is the king of chaats.

🇮🇳Delhi, India

Ram Ladoo

राम लड्डू

A Delhi street food of deep-fried moong dal fritters served with radish, chutney, and green chilies. Crispy and spicy.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Ramanonaka

Salted rice-flour batter fried in lard on a hollowed plate, the savoury sibling of mofo gasy.

🇺🇸Midwestern United States, United States

Reuben

A grilled sandwich of corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Russian dressing on rye.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Roasted Barley Snack

ቆሎ

Ethiopia's ultimate crunchy snack — a colorful mix of roasted barley, chickpeas, peanuts and sunflower seeds, often seasoned with a touch of salt or berbere. Served at every coffee ceremony.

🇱🇷Liberia

Roasted Corn and Coconut

A simple Liberian market snack pairing smoky roasted corn with fresh coconut.

🇬🇭Ghana

Roasted plantain

Kofi brokeman

Ripe plantain roasted whole over charcoal until blackened and sold with a handful of raw groundnuts.

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Roasted Plantain

Bọ̀lì

Firm plantain roasted whole over open coals until blackened outside, split and eaten with roasted groundnuts or pepper sauce.

🇺🇸United States

Runza

A Nebraska yeast bread pocket stuffed with beef, cabbage, and onions — of German-Russian origin.

🇮🇳Maharashtra, India

Sabudana Vada

साबूदाना वडा

A Maharashtrian fasting snack of sago and potato patties deep-fried until crisp. Served with peanut chutney.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Saheena

Dasheen leaves layered with a split-pea batter, rolled, sliced and deep-fried into flat green-flecked fritters.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Salt Cod Fritters

Accras de Morue

Fried bites of salted cod mixed with spices and herbs; crispy on the outside, light and fluffy inside; the essential Guadeloupean appetizer; served with chien sauce (Creole condiment); found everywhere from beach bars to family kitchens; the accras that are the perfect Creole bar snack.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Salt Cod Fritters

Bacalaítos

A thin batter loose with salt cod, oregano and sofrito, spooned into oil so it spreads into a lacy disc bigger than a hand.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Sambos

Small triangular pastries filled with minced beef, potato or fish and fried, sold three or four to a bag.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Sandwiches de mezcla

Sándwich de mezcla

Puerto Rican party sandwiches of white bread filled with a savory spread of ham, cheese, and pimiento, cut into small squares.

🇮🇳India

Sev

सेव

Thin, crispy fried chickpea flour noodles used as a topping for chaat and snacks. A versatile Indian snack ingredient.

🇮🇳Mumbai, India

Sev Puri

सेव पूरी

A Mumbai chaat of flat puris topped with potato, onion, chutneys, and sev. It is sweet, spicy, and crunchy.

🇲🇦Morocco

Sfenj (Moroccan Doughnuts)

سفنج

Moroccan yeasted dough rings fried until irregular, airy, and crisp, then eaten hot with sugar or honey.

🇱🇾Libya

Sfinz

A wet, stretchy yeast dough pulled thin and fried into a ragged disc, eaten hot with honey, sugar or an egg cracked onto it.

🇦🇺Australia

Shapes

Savory cracker biscuits since 1954 in flavors like BBQ, Chicken Crimpy, Pizza, and Cheese and Bacon, bold flavor coating with crisp biscuit base, flavour you can see.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Shrimp Fritters

Tortillitas De Camarones

Crispy shrimp fritters from Cádiz.

🇬🇼Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Shrimp Pastries

Rissóis

Small fried pastries filled with shrimp in a béchamel-style sauce; a Portuguese-influenced snack adapted with local Atlantic shrimp; half-moon shaped with a crisp breadcrumb coating; sold at snack bars and made at home.

🇬🇺Guam

Shrimp Patties

Buñelos Uhang

Buñelos uhang are shrimp and vegetable fritters mixed with batter, dropped into hot oil, and served crisp as an appetizer.

🇺🇸United States

Slopper

A Pueblo, Colorado open-faced burger buried under a ladle of red or green chile.

🇺🇸United States

Sloppy Joe

A sandwich of loose seasoned ground beef in a sweet-tangy tomato sauce on a bun.

🇺🇸United States

Slugburger

A Mississippi Depression-era burger extended with soy grits or potato flakes.

🇰🇪Nairobi, Kenya

Smokie Pasua

A Nairobi street snack: a split grilled sausage filled with kachumbari and sauces.

🇰🇷South Korea

So-tteok-so-tteok

소떡소떡

So-tteok-so-tteok, alternating sausage and rice cake on a skewer with sweet-spicy glaze, is a named Korean market street item.