Street Snacks

🇺🇸United States

Football Sandwiches

Small, folded party sandwiches of deli meat and cheese, often from a bake sale or deli tray.

🇵🇭Philippines

Fresh Spring Rolls

Lumpiang Sariwa

Fresh, non-fried spring rolls filled with sauteed vegetables and meat, topped with a sweet garlic sauce.

🇧🇪Belgium

Fricadelle

Deep-fried minced-meat sausage, a Belgian snack-bar staple often served with frites.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Fried Banana Balls

Filhoses

Fried banana balls made with flour, sugar, and mashed banana, deep-fried until golden and puffy.

🇰🇲Comoros

Fried Cassava

Manioc Frit

Cassava cut into chips or batons, boiled, then fried in oil until crispy outside and soft inside; an alternative to potato fries and a popular street snack in the Comoros.

🇷🇴Romania

Fried Cașcaval

Cașcaval pane

Slabs of yellow cașcaval cheese breaded and deep-fried until the crust is golden and the inside runs, served with fries or mămăligă.

🇺🇸United States

Fried Coke

A state-fair novelty: a batter of Coca-Cola folded into dough and deep-fried, dusted with powdered sugar.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Fried Crickets

ចង្រិតទៀន

Crickets seasoned with salt, chili, and garlic, deep-fried until crisp, eaten as a snack with beer or rice.

🇲🇫Saint Martin

Fried Jacks

Jacks

Small fish (typically jack fish) seasoned and fried whole or in pieces; a simple, traditional street food and market snack found at lolos and roadside stands across Saint Martin.

🇨🇩DR Congo

Fried Plantains

Makemba

Fried plantains, a popular street food and side dish across the Congo; ripe plantains sliced and fried golden; eaten as a side or a snack; turn up alongside just about everything; in Congo's largest cities, fried plantains have become a popular fast food item, even overshadowing French fries; a simple, beloved staple.

🇰🇷South Korea

Fried Seaweed Rolls

김말이

Glass noodles wrapped in seaweed, battered, and deep-fried until crispy, often eaten with tteokbokki sauce.

🇨🇺Cuba

Frita

Frita cubana

A Cuban-style hamburger of seasoned ground beef and chorizo, griddled and served on a soft bun with shoestring potatoes and onions.

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Fry Fry

A mixed Sierra Leonean street-food platter of assorted deep-fried bites: plantain chips, bean fritters, fried potatoes, fish balls, and chicken; customers pick their favourites and dip them in spicy onion gravy.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Fuchka

ফুচকা

Crisp hollow spheres cracked open and packed with spiced mashed potato, chickpeas, tamarind water, chilli and boiled egg.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Funkaso

A Hausa savoury fritter made from fermented grain batter and served with pepper or sauce.

🇬🇦Gabon

Gabonese Beignets

Beignets

Deep-fried dough balls, both sweet and savoury; banana beignets made with overripe bananas, flour, and sugar; savoury beignets salés studded with onions; sold by street vendors in markets.

🇹🇬Togo

Galifoto

A savoury Togolese street snack of gari (roasted cassava granules) mixed with pepper, tomato, and fried or grilled giant land snails; chewy, spicy, and filling.

🇨🇮Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Garba

Attiéké heaped into paper with cubes of fried tuna, raw onion, tomato, chilli and a squeeze of oil, sold from wooden shacks by Nigerien vendors.

🇬🇹Guatemala

Garnachas

A Guatemalan small crispy masa cup with ground beef, salsa, cabbage, and cheese, a street and snack classic

🇧🇿Belize

Garnaches

A crisp fried tortilla spread with refried beans and covered in grated cheese, shredded cabbage and pickled onion.

🇻🇺Vanuatu

Gateau Huit

Deep-fried doughnut shaped into the number 8, introduced by French and British colonists; often served street snack in Port Vila and Luganville; the name 'huit' is French for eight; a colonial-era introduction that became part of Ni-Vanuatu street food culture.

🇬🇮Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Gibraltarian Panissa

Panissa

A bread-like dish similar to calentita but with a different preparation; chickpea flour, water, and olive oil simmered for over an hour while stirring to form a paste, then left to set; the polenta-like dough is cut into strips and fried in olive oil; a descendant of the Genoese dish of the same name.

🇰🇷South Korea

Goguma mattang (Candied Sweet Potatoes)

고구마맛탕

Goguma mattang, sweet potato chunks fried and glazed in caramelised syrup, is a named Korean snack sold from dedicated stalls.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Goi Cuon

Gỏi cuốn

Fresh spring rolls with shrimp, pork, rice vermicelli, and herbs wrapped in translucent rice paper, served with peanut hoisin sauce.

🇺🇬Uganda

Gonja

Sweet plantain roasted whole over charcoal until the skin blackens and the flesh caramelises, sold at every taxi park and roadside.

🇺🇸United States

Green Chile Cheeseburger

A burger topped with roasted green chile and melted cheese — New Mexico's sandwich.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Fish Cakes

Fish Cakes

Fried fish cakes of Grenada; salted fish or fresh fish mixed with seasoned batter and deep-fried until golden; a popular street food and snack; served with pepper sauce or chutney; of Indo-Caribbean and African origin; found at roadside vendors and snackettes; the fish cakes of the Spice Isle; a crispy snack.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Kurma

Kurma

Traditional Grenadian snack of fried dough coated in a crisp, crystallized sugar shell; flavored with nutmeg and fried until golden; a crunchy treat and nostalgic favorite enjoyed by generations; of Indo-Caribbean origin; found at markets and roadside stalls; the kurma of the Spice Isle; a crunchy, sweet snack.

🇱🇦Laos

Grilled Sticky Rice

ເຂົ້າຈີ່

Sticky rice pressed onto a stick, brushed with beaten egg and grilled over coals until the outside is crusted and golden.

🇺🇸United States

Grinder

A New England term for a submarine sandwich, often toasted with hot fillings.

🇳🇱Groningen, Netherlands

Groningen Egg Ball

Eierbal

A Groningen egg ball encloses a boiled egg in seasoned ragout, then breading and deep-frying it until crisp.

🇲🇽Mexico

Guacamaya

A León, Guanajuato street sandwich of a split bolillo packed with crisp pork chicharrón, often cueritos, hot red salsa, lime, tomato, and onion.

🇺🇸United States

Guberburger

A regional burger topped with creamy peanut butter — a Southern and Ohio Valley specialty.

🇬🇳Guinea

Guinean Banana Fritters

Beignets de banane

Ripe banana fritters with flour, sugar, vanilla, and nutmeg; crispy outside, pillowy soft within; a popular Conakry street snack and breakfast item.

🇳🇪Niger

Guinean Grilled Corn

Maïs grillé

Corn on the cob grilled over charcoal and slathered with butter or mayonnaise; a popular street snack during the corn season; sold at roadside stalls.

🇬🇳Guinea

Guinean Patates

Patates

Fried sweet potato wedges sold in paper cones or plastic bags; a ubiquitous Guinean street snack; crispy outside, soft inside, sprinkled with salt or chili.