List of Japanese snacks

This is a list of Japanese snacks (お菓子) 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.[1] Anko is mainly eaten during the afternoon green tea time in Japan. School students eat it after school, at home.

  • Anmitsu
  • Anpan
  • Botamochi
  • Daifuku
  • Ichigodaifuku - Daifuku with strawberry
  • Dorayaki
  • Manjū
  • Monaka
  • Imagawayaki
  • Kusa mochi
  • Taiyaki
  • Yōkan

Bean

Beans with salt are mainly taken with beer in the evening.

  • Edamame
  • Soramame - boiled broad bean
  • Ikarimame - fried broad bean

Bread/Wheat Flour

  • generic
  • Karintō – deep-fried brown sugar snack
  • Monjayaki
  • Okonomiyaki
  • Takoyaki

Cake

Candy

  • generic
  • Amezaiku - Japanese candy craft artistry
  • Aruheitō
  • Konpeitō
  • Ramune candy - compressed tablet candy

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) - chocolate in shape of Apollo command module
  • Choco Baby
  • Choco Ball
  • Crunky
  • Crunky kids
  • DARS (chocolate)
  • E-Royce'
  • Every Burger[2]

Ice cream & shaved ice

  • generic
  • Green tea ice cream
  • Kakigōri
  • Mochi ice cream

Potato

  • generic
  • Ishiyakiimo - roasted sweet potato
  • Kenpi

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.

Seafood

  • Big Katsu
  • Ebi senbei
  • Gyoniku soseji, a surimi fish sausage
  • Miyako Konbu
  • Surume
  • Yotchan Ika

Street foods

  • Dorayaki
  • Korokke
  • Nikuman
  • Ōbanyaki
  • Taiyaki
  • Takoyaki
  • Yakitori

Mixed and other

  • Ajigonomi
  • Don Tacos

Producers

See also

  • Japanese instant noodles
  • List of Japanese dishes
  • List of snack foods by country
  • Snacking
  • Wagashi
  • Sakana

References

  1. How to Make Anko (Red Bean Paste) 餡子 10 March 2020^
  2. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cdrHAQAAQBAJ&dq=%22every+burger%22+bourbon&pg=PA201 Stanlaw, James. Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact, page 201. Hong Kong University Press. Hong Kong.]^
  3. アイス | 【公式】江崎グリコ(Glico)^