Street Snacks

🇲🇺Mauritius

Breadfruit Croquettes

Croquettes de fruit à pain

Mashed breadfruit shaped and fried as a Mauritian snack or side.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Breadfruit Croquettes Seychelloises

Croquettes de fruit à pain

Mashed breadfruit shaped and fried as a Seychellois snack or side.

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Breadfruit Puff

Innovative dish made from breadfruit, exhibited during the Breadfruit Festival in August; breadfruit mashed and formed into puffs, then fried; showcases the versatility of breadfruit; a modern Vincentian creation; the breadfruit puff of Saint Vincent; a crispy, starchy snack; a festival specialty.

🇲🇦Morocco

Brik

بريك

Thin malsouka pastry folded around egg, tuna, potato, capers, or herbs and fried until the shell shatters.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Bun Dau Mam Tom

Bún đậu mắm tôm

Cold rice vermicelli with crispy fried tofu, boiled pork, and fermented shrimp paste dip, a beloved Hanoi street food served on bamboo trays.

🇱🇾Libya

Bureek

Thin pastry folded around tuna, egg, parsley and cheese and deep fried into a crisp triangle, eaten with lemon.

🇲🇽Mexico

Burrito

A flour tortilla rolled around a filling of beans, meat, rice, and cheese — the northern Mexican original.

🇨🇴Colombia

Buñuelos Colombianos

Colombian cheese fritters: dense little balls of cassava starch and queso fresco deep-fried until the crust blisters and puffs. Year-round bakery fare that doubles as the essential Christmas onces treat beside natilla.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Buñuelos de Yuca

Venezuelan buñuelos de yuca are cassava-and-cheese fritters fried until crisp and served with warm papelón syrup.

🇵🇱Poland

Bułka z pieczarkami

Bułka z pieczarkami is a street food from Masovian Voivodeship, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bánh căn (Vietnamese Mini Pancakes)

Bánh căn

Banh can is made with mini rice pancakes cooked in a clay mould over coals and served with fish sauce and quail egg.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bánh cống (Fried Shrimp Cake)

Bánh cống

Bánh cống is a deep-fried mung-bean-and-shrimp cake from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, served crisp and hot.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bánh kẹp lá dứa (Coconut Pandan Waffles)

Bánh kẹp lá dứa

Banh kep la dua, the crisp pandan coconut waffle cooked in a hinged iron on the street, is a named Vietnamese snack.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bánh tiêu (Vietnamese Donuts)

Bánh tiêu

Banh tieu is the hollow sesame-crusted fried dough eaten on its own or stuffed with banh bo.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Bánh tôm (Shrimp and Sweet Potato Fritters)

Bánh tôm

Banh tom, the shrimp-and-sweet-potato fritter of Hanoi's West Lake, is a named city dish with dedicated restaurants.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bò bía (Spring Rolls with Chinese Sausage)

Bò bía

Bo bia is the small fresh roll of jicama, dried shrimp and Chinese sausage.

🇧🇷Brazil

Cachorro Quente Brasileiro

Cachorro quente

A Brazilian street hot dog loaded with sausage, mashed potatoes, corn, peas, grated parmesan, vinagrete, ketchup, mustard and shoestring potatoes, all piled into a soft bun.

🇺🇸United States

Calas

A New Orleans breakfast fritter of rice and yeast batter, fried until golden and dusted with powdered sugar.

🇺🇸California, United States

California Burrito

A San Diego burrito stuffed with carne asada, french fries, guacamole, cheese, and pico de gallo.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Cameroonian Doughnut Sticks

Beignets torsadés

Sweet dough twisted into ropes and fried, sold in bags at bakeries and roadside stalls.

🇮🇹Liguria, Italy

Canestrello di Taggia

Canestrello di Taggia is a named Italian street snack from Taggia, made as a distinctive flour-based or filled form with the ingredients and cooking finish associated with that local tradition.

🇵🇭Philippines

Caramelized Bananas

Banana Cue

Saba bananas fried in brown sugar until caramelized, served on skewers, a popular street snack.

🇵🇭Philippines

Caramelized Sweet Potato

Camote Cue

Sweet potato slices fried in brown sugar on skewers, similar to banana cue, a cheap and filling snack.

🇮🇹Catania, Italy

Cartocciata

Cartocciata is a named Italian street snack from Catania, made as a distinctive flour-based or filled form with the ingredients and cooking finish associated with that local tradition.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Casabe con Mambá

A Dominican snack of casabe (yuca flatbread) spread with mambá (spicy peanut butter), eaten in the northwest. A rustic, traditional Taíno-African combination.

🇱🇨Saint Lucia

Cassava and Avocado

Crushed avocado mixed with cassava flour, salted, and rolled into balls; a simple but enjoyable Jounen Kwéyòl treat; not a very complex dish but very enjoyable; a traditional Saint Lucian snack; the cassava and avocado of Saint Lucia; a simple, creamy, starchy snack; a Creole specialty.

🇬🇾Guyana

Cassava Ball

Cassava balls are grated cassava shaped around a savory filling and fried until the outside is crisp and the interior stays soft.

🇫🇯Fiji

Cassava Chips

Tavioka chips

Cassava sliced thin and fried into hard, salty chips, sold in bags at markets and bus stands.

🇸🇸South Sudan

Cassava Fritters

Deep-fried patties of grated cassava, sometimes mixed with onions and spices; crispy outside, soft and starchy inside; sold at street stalls and markets; a popular snack in more densely populated areas where cassava is abundant.

🇿🇲Zambia

Cassava with Groundnuts

Tute Ne Mbalala

Popular Zambian snack of cassava and groundnuts; cassava soaked in water until soft, then roasted and mixed with groundnuts; smoky and nutty; a grab-and-go bite; roasted in some locales and fried in others; a street food that showcases Zambia's cassava crop; filling and inexpensive.

🇭🇳Honduras

Catrachitas

Crisp fried corn tortilla rounds spread with refried beans and buried under grated hard cheese, eaten as a snack or a party plate.

🇮🇳India

Chakli

चकली

A spiral-shaped, crispy snack made from rice and gram flour, popular during Diwali. It is savory and crunchy.

🇲🇿Mozambique

Chamussas

Small triangular pastries filled with spiced minced beef, chicken or prawn and deep fried, sold three or four at a time.

🇲🇺Mauritius

Chana Puri

A puffed fried flour ball split open and filled with curried chickpeas or split peas and chilli chutney.

🇨🇳Hunan, China

Changsha Black Stinky Tofu

长沙臭豆腐

Changsha-style stinky tofu: black fermented-bean curd deep-fried until the outside is dark and crackling, the inside soft.

🇦🇼Aruba

Cheese Balls

Bolita di Keshi

Bolita di keshi are crisp fried balls of grated Gouda or Edam bound with flour and egg, a cheese-forward snack sold at Aruban bakeries and roadside snack-bars.