This is a list of Japanese snacks (お菓子, okashi) and finger foods. It includes both brand name and generic snacks.
Types
Anko, or sweet bean paste
Anko is a kind of sweet bean paste. Anko is mainly eaten during the afternoon green tea time in Japan. School students eat it after school, at home.
- Botamochi
- Daifuku
- Ichigodaifuku [ja] - Daifuku with strawberry
- Dorayaki
- Manjū
- Monaka
- Imagawayaki
- Kusa mochi
- Taiyaki
- Yōkan
- Botamochi
- Daifuku
- Ichigo daifuku
- Dorayaki
- Imagawayaki
- Taiyaki
- Cut surface of taiyaki
- Yōkan with chestnut
Bean
Beans with salt are mainly taken with beer in the evening.
- Edamame
- Soramame - boiled broad bean
- Ikarimame [ja] - fried broad bean
Bread/Wheat Flour
- generic
- Karintō – deep-fried brown sugar snack
- Monjayaki
- Okonomiyaki
- Takoyaki
- Karintō
- Karintō in bottles
- Monjayaki
- Okonomiyaki
- Takoyaki
- brand
- Hello Panda
- Kappa Ebisen
- Koala's March
- Pocky – known as Mikado in Europe
- Pretz
- Yan Yan
- Kappa Ebisen
- Pretz
- A package of regular Yan Yan
Candy
- generic
- Amezaiku - Japanese candy craft artistry
- Aruheitō [ja]
- Konpeitō
- Ramune candy - compressed tablet candy
- brand
- Botan/Tomoe Ame
- Calpis Candy
- Chelsea (candy) [ja] – made by Meiji Confectionery in Japan
- Cubyrop
- gumi 100
- Hi-chew
- Milky (candy) [ja]
- Pinky
- Poifull [ja]
- Puccho [ja]
- Puré gumi candy - gummy candy with fruit purée made by KANRO Co., Ltd.
- Milky (candy) [ja]
- Puccho [ja]
Cake
Chewing gum
- Black Black
- Fuwarinka
- Kiss Mint and Watering Kissmint
- Let's
- Plus X
- Poscam
- Pure White
- Sweetie
- whatta – chewing gum by Meiji Confectionery
- Xylish
- Yuzu
Corn
Chocolate
- generic
- Matcha chocolate - chocolate containing matcha
- brand
- Apollo (chocolate) [ja] - chocolate in shape of Apollo command module
- Choco Baby [ja]
- Choco Ball [ja]
- Crunky [ja]
- Crunky kids
- DARS (chocolate) [ja]
- E-Royce'
- Every Burger
- Kinoko no yama - known as CHOCOROOMS in US
- Koara no māchi
- Ghana
- Pocky – known as Mikado in Europe
- Pucca Chocolate
- Takenoko no sato [ja] - known as CHOCOCONES in US
- Toppo
- Apollo (chocolate) [ja]
- Choco Baby [ja]
- Choco Ball [ja]
- DARS (chocolate) [ja]
- Pocky
- Kinoko no yama
- Takenoko no sato [ja]
Ice cream & shaved ice
- generic
- Green tea ice cream
- Green tea kakigōri (left) and strawberry flavoured kakigōri (right)
- Mochi ice cream
- brand
- Choco Monaka Jumbo [ja], manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
- Panapp
- Yukimi Daifuku
- Choco Monaka Jumbo [ja]
- Yukimi Daifuku
Potato
- generic
- Ishiyakiimo - roasted sweet potato
- Kenpi
- Ishiyakiimo
- Kenpi
- brand
- Bōkun Habanero
- Jagarico, manufactured by Calbee.
- Kara Mucho and Suppa Mucho
- Kataage Potato
- Pote Long [ja], manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
- Wasabeef [ja] - wasabi & beef flavoured potato chips
- Ototo [ja] - potato snack in shape of seafood.
- Jagarico
- Kara Mucho
- Pote Long
- Wasabeef
Rice
- generic
- Onigiri, or rice ball can be eaten both as a snack and as a meal, by modern Japanese people. In Sengoku period, samurai ate large rice balls as a field ration during the war.
- Small onigiris convenient for snacks
- In Sengoku period and Edo period, onigiris were often wrapped in bamboo skin when they were carried. Bamboo skin has an antibacterial effect and keeps rice balls longer.
- Modern onigiris wrapped in a small, transparent plastic bag
Rice based snacks are known as beika (米菓).
See also: Wagashi- Arare
- Hanami dango
- Kaki no tane
- Kaminari okoshi [ja]
- Senbei
- brand
Seafood
Street foods
Mixed and other
Producers
See also
- Japanese instant noodles
- List of Japanese dishes
- List of snack foods by country
- Snacking
- Wagashi
- Sakana
References
- "How to Make Anko (Red Bean Paste) 餡子". 10 March 2020.
- Stanlaw, James. Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact, page 201. Hong Kong University Press. Hong Kong.
- "アイス | 【公式】江崎グリコ(Glico)".
External links
- Media related to Snack foods of Japan at Wikimedia Commons
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