Street Snacks

🇬🇷South Aegean, Greece

Tomatokeftedes

Ντοματοκεφτέδες

Greek tomato fritters of grated tomatoes, herbs, and flour, fried until golden. A Santorini and Cyclades specialty, crispy and tangy, served with tzatziki, a summer meze.

🇲🇽Mexico

Torta Cubana

The overstuffed Mexican sandwich: bolillo piled with multiple meats, cheese, avocado, and fixings.

🇲🇽Mexico

Torta de la barda

Tampico's towering torta de la barda: a bolillo layered with beans, ham, cheeses, avocado, shredded beef, chicharrón in green salsa, and chorizo, named for the dockside wall where it was first sold.

🇲🇽Mexico City, Mexico

Torta de tamal

A tamal sandwich: a warm tamal (often green chile and pork) slipped into a bolillo.

🇮🇹Parma, Italy

Torta Fritta

Torta fritta parmigiana

Parma's airy fried dough traditionally served with local cured meats and soft cheese.

🇭🇳Honduras

Tortilla con Quesillo

A thick corn tortilla folded around soft stretching quesillo and pressed on the griddle until the cheese runs at the edges.

🇨🇴Colombia

Tostones

Patacones

A Cuban fried green plantain slices, flattened and double-fried, a daily and essential side In Antioquia the thick-cut rounds are served as "tostadas" alongside bandeja paisa.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Tostones de Pana

Dominican twice-fried breadfruit (pana) discs, smashed and fried until golden, served like tostones with garlic salt. A tropical variant, especially on the coast.

🇬🇼Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Tuna Pastry

Pastel

Savory fried pastry filled with tuna; a Portuguese-influenced empanada-style snack adapted with local canned tuna; half-moon shaped, golden, and crispy; sold at street stalls and bakeries across Guinea-Bissau.

🇦🇺Australia

Twisties

Twisties are airy corn snacks coated in orange cheese seasoning, sold in sealed packets and eaten as a crisp savoury snack.

🇧🇯Benin

Tévi

Fried yam slices; a popular street food across Benin; crispy outside, tender inside; sold in paper cones with pili-pili; a cheap, filling snack.

🇮🇳Kerala, India

Upperi

കേരള ബനാന ചിപ്സ്

Plantain slices are fried in coconut oil and lightly salted into Kerala's crisp snack.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Vietnamese Fried Spring Roll

Chả giò

Chả giò is a Vietnamese fried spring roll filled with seasoned pork or shrimp, mung bean noodles, and vegetables, wrapped in rice paper and fried crisp.

🇨🇷Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Vigorón

Plate of boiled yuca, cabbage salad, and chicharrones served on banana leaves, popular street food in Puntarenas, coastal and crispy.

🇳🇮Granada, Nicaragua

Vigorón

A Granada classic: boiled yuca with chicharrones and cabbage salad on banana leaf, a street and daily staple

🇪🇨Oriente (Amazonian Ecuador), Ecuador

Volquetero

Volquetero is an Amazonian snack layered with chochos, tostado, chifles, onion, tomato, avocado and a sharp lime dressing.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Walkers Crisps

Thin fried potato crisps in colour-coded packets, with cheese and onion in blue and salt and vinegar in green.

🇵🇪Peru

Wantan Frito

Fried wontons, chifa staple

🇺🇸United States

Wet Burrito

A burrito smothered in red enchilada sauce and melted cheese.

🇧🇯Benin

Wèli

Fried sweet potato slices; a popular street food across Benin; crispy outside, sweet and tender inside; sold in paper cones; a cheap, filling snack.

🇨🇳China

Xianbing (Chinese Meat Pie)

馅饼

Pan-griddled wheat pie stuffed with seasoned pork and chive — a northern Chinese home and street staple unrelated to roujiamo's baked pocket.

🇯🇵Japan

Yaki imo

焼き芋

Yaki-imo, sweet potato roasted over stones and sold from winter trucks announcing themselves by loudspeaker, is a named Japanese seasonal street food.

🇧🇯Benin

Yovo Doko

Sweet wheat flour beignets (puff-puff style); 'white beignets' in Fon; deep-fried dough balls with yeast, sugar, and salt; a popular Beninese street snack.

🇻🇪Zulia, Venezuela

Yoyos Zulianos

Yoyos zulianos sandwich salty cheese between sweet plantain slices, dip the bundle in batter and fry it until crisp.

🇸🇻El Salvador

Yuca Frita con Chicharrón

A Salvadoran dish of fried cassava with crispy pork, curtido, and salsa, a daily and street classic

🇺🇸United States

Z-Man

A Kansas City barbecue sandwich of brisket, provolone, onion rings, and barbecue sauce on a Kaiser roll.

🇲🇼Malawi

Zigege

A popular Malawian street snack of boiled Irish potatoes sliced into thick chips, dipped in a wheat-flour batter tinted with food colouring, and deep-fried until crispy.