Street Snacks

🇬🇳Guinea

Guinean Puff Puffs

Gato

Fried dough balls with yeast, sugar, salt, and sometimes onion; crispy outside, soft inside; a popular Guinean snack and breakfast item; called gato locally.

🇰🇲Comoros

Gulagula ya Trango

Mahorais Sweet Fritters

Ripe bananas mashed with flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt, then deep-fried until golden brown and puffy; served dusted with powdered sugar or drizzled with honey; a popular sweet street snack.

🇵🇪Peru

Habas Saladas

Roasted or fried salted fava beans sold as a crunchy Peruvian market snack.

🇲🇺Mauritius

Hakien

Bean-curd sheet rolled around minced pork and spring onion, steamed, then sliced and fried in a light batter.

🇦🇺Australia

Halal Snack Pack

A foam box of hot chips buried under shredded kebab meat — chicken, lamb or mixed — and flooded with garlic, BBQ and chilli sauces. Born in Sydney kebab shops and now Australia's standard late-night feed.

🇺🇸Philadelphia, United States

Hoagie

The Philadelphia term for a submarine sandwich: a long roll stuffed with deli meats, cheeses, lettuce, tomato, and onion, oil-and-vinegar dressed.

🇭🇳Honduras

Honduran Enchiladas

Enchiladas hondureñas

A flat fried tortilla stacked with seasoned ground beef, shredded cabbage, tomato sauce, grated cheese and a slice of hard-boiled egg.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Hong Kong Fish Balls

Yu Daan

Curry fish balls; a classic Hong Kong street food; fish paste formed into balls and deep-fried; then skewered and doused in curry sauce; bouncy and savory; sold at street stalls and dai pai dongs; one of the most popular street snacks in Hong Kong; the fish ball that defines the city's street food culture.

🇺🇸Louisville, United States

Hot Brown

A Louisville open-faced sandwich of turkey, tomato, and bacon under a cheesy mornay sauce, broiled until bubbly.

🇲🇽Mexico

Huaraches

A sandal-shaped, sandal-shaped corn masa base piled with beans, meat, lettuce, cheese, cream, and salsa.

🇺🇸United States

Hushpuppies

Bite-size balls of cornmeal batter deep-fried until golden — the Southern companion to fried fish.

🇷🇼Rwanda

Ibinyomvya

Ripe bananas cooked with a little sugar and water until soft and caramelised; a simple Rwandan sweet using the country's abundant bananas; eaten as a dessert or snack, especially by children.

🇯🇵Osaka, Japan

Ikayaki

イカ焼き

Ikayaki, whole or pressed squid grilled with soy at festival stalls and in Osaka's flat-pressed form, is a named Japanese street item.

🇰🇲Comoros

Inafliton Lemai

Breadfruit peeled, cored, thinly sliced, and deep-fried in coconut oil until golden and crispy; salted and served as a snack or carbohydrate accompaniment; a beloved Comorian street food.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Indonesian Corn Fritters

Bakwan Jagung

Corn fritters with shrimp and spices, crispy and sweet, popular street snack.

🇮🇳Gujarat, India

Jalebi Fafda

જલેબી ફાફડા

The classic Gujarati breakfast combo of crispy fafda with sweet, syrupy jalebi. It is eaten especially on Dussehra.

🇲🇭Marshall Islands

Jekaka

Jekaka is pandanus fruit cut into thin pieces and dried or crisped into a portable snack with a sweet, nutty aroma.

🇺🇸United States

Juicy Lucy

A Minneapolis burger with the cheese sealed inside the patty, so it bursts when bitten.

🇧🇭Bahrain

Kabeb Bahraini

كباب بحريني

Bahraini kebabs made from chickpea flour, garam masala spices, eggs, and finely chopped tomatoes and onions, shaped into small patties and fried.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Kachourie

Split-pea batter with grated vegetables or fresh herbs fried into small irregular fritters.

🇱🇦Luang Prabang, Laos

Kaipen

ໄກ່ແພ

Mekong river algae harvested, washed, pressed into thin sheets with sesame, garlic and tomato, dried in the sun and fried to order.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Kaka Pizon

Thin strings of dough deep fried into crisp irregular tangles and sold in paper cones, unsweetened.

🇬🇭Ghana

Kaklo

Ripe plantain mashed with flour and pepper and fried into small balls, crisper and rounder than tatale.

🇱🇷Liberia

Kala

Liberian sweet fried-dough balls made from flour, sugar and spices and sold as a breakfast snack.

🇳🇱Rotterdam, Netherlands

Kapsalon

Rotterdam street food layering fries with döner or shawarma, melted cheese, salad, and garlic sauce.

🇹🇷Turkey

Karsambaç

Karsambac, mountain snow poured with fruit syrup, is a named seasonal street sweet of the southern and eastern provinces and a genuine collectible moment.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Kategna

ቃተኛ

A simple Ethiopian appetizer of lightly toasted injera brushed with niter kibbeh and dusted with berbere. Crispy, spicy, buttery — it's the Ethiopian version of garlic bread.

🇲🇻Maldives

Kavaabu

ކަވާބު

Smoked tuna, coconut, onion, ginger, curry leaves, and lime are bound, shaped, and deep-fried into a Maldivian snack.

🇬🇭Ghana

Kelewele

Ripe plantain cubed and tossed with ginger, chilli, aniseed and salt, then deep-fried until the sugars caramelise.

🇨🇦Canada

Ketchup Chips

Croustilles au ketchup

Potato chips with ketchup flavoring, sweet and tangy with strong vinegar foundation, popular uniquely Canadian snack.

🇹🇭Northern Thailand (Lanna), Thailand

Khaep mu (Crispy Thai Pork Rinds)

แคบหมู

Khaep mu is a Northern Thai pork-rind snack sold crisp in bags and commonly eaten with nam prik noom.

🇮🇳Gujarat, India

Khandvi

ખાંડવી

A Gujarati snack of thin gram flour rolls tempered with mustard seeds and coconut. It is soft, tangy, and melt-in-mouth.

🇹🇭Thailand

Khanom Tokyo

ขนมโตเกียว

Khanom Tokyo, the folded street pancake rolled around sweet or savoury filling, is a named Thai street item with its own carts nationwide despite the borrowed name; localisation rescues it under guideline 1.6.

🇩🇿Algeria

Khfaf

خفاف

Ring doughnuts of a very wet semolina dough pulled by hand and fried, then dipped in honey or sugar.

🇱🇧Aleppo, Lebanon

Kibbeh

كبة

Meat and bulgur croquettes, fried or baked, crispy exterior with well-seasoned meat and proper bulgur texture, a popular Arabic dish in UAE, traditional and beloved, festive and daily, versatile and hearty.

🇺🇬Uganda

Kikomando

A chapati torn into strips and mixed straight into a plate of fried beans — the cheapest filling meal in Kampala.