List of Japanese snacks
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This is a list of Japanese snacks (お菓子, okashi) and finger foods. It includes both brand name and generic snacks.
Types
[edit ]Anko, or sweet bean paste
[edit ]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.
- Botamochi
- Daifuku
- Ichigodaifuku [ja] - Daifuku with strawberry
- Dorayaki
- Manjū
- Monaka
- Imagawayaki
- Kusa mochi
- Taiyaki
- Yōkan
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Ichigo daifuku
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Cut surface of taiyaki
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Yōkan with chestnut
Bean
[edit ]Beans with salt are mainly taken with beer in the evening.
- Edamame
- Soramame - boiled broad bean
- Ikarimame [ja] - fried broad bean
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Soramame
![Ikarimame [ja]](/index.cgi/contrast/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fry_beans.JPG){kind=link}
Bread/Wheat Flour
[edit ]- generic
- Karintō – deep-fried brown sugar snack
- Monjayaki
- Okonomiyaki
- Takoyaki
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Karintō in bottles
- brand
- Hello Panda
- Kappa Ebisen
- Koala's March
- Pocky – known as Mikado in Europe
- Pretz
- Yan Yan
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A package of regular Yan Yan
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Candy
[edit ]- 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]](/index.cgi/contrast/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fujiya_Milky.jpg){kind=link}
![Puccho [ja]](/index.cgi/contrast/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Puccho_Soda.jpg){kind=link}
Cake
[edit ]Chewing gum
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]Chocolate
[edit ]- 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 [2]
- 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
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Choco Baby [ja]
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Choco Ball [ja]
![Apollo (chocolate) [ja]](/index.cgi/contrast/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Meiji_Apollo_(3592302545).jpg){kind=link}
![Choco Baby [ja]](/index.cgi/contrast/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Meiji_-_CHOCO_BABY.jpg){kind=link}
![Choco Ball [ja]](/index.cgi/contrast/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morinaga_Chocoball.jpg){kind=link}
![DARS (chocolate) [ja]](/index.cgi/contrast/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DARS002.JPG){kind=link}
![Takenoko no sato [ja]](/index.cgi/contrast/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Takenoko_No_Sato.jpg){kind=link}
Ice cream & shaved ice
[edit ]- generic
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Green tea kakigōri (left) and strawberry flavoured kakigōri (right)
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Mochi ice cream
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- brand
- Choco Monaka Jumbo [ja], manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
- Panapp [3]
- Yukimi Daifuku
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Yukimi Daifuku
![Choco Monaka Jumbo [ja]](/index.cgi/contrast/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morinaba_Choco-monaka-jumbo.jpg){kind=link}
Potato
[edit ]- generic
- Ishiyakiimo - roasted sweet potato
- Kenpi
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Ishiyakiimo
- 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.
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Pote Long
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Wasabeef
Rice
[edit ]- 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.
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Small onigiris convenient for snacks
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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.
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Modern onigiris wrapped in a small, transparent plastic bag
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Rice based snacks are known as beika (米菓).
See also: Wagashi
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Hanami dango
![Kaminari okoshi [ja]](/index.cgi/contrast/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_kaminari_okoshi_2014.jpg){kind=link}
- brand
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Seafood
[edit ]Street foods
[edit ]
Mixed and other
[edit ]Producers
[edit ]See also
[edit ]
- Japanese instant noodles
- List of Japanese dishes
- List of snack foods by country
- Snacking
- Wagashi
- Sakana
References
[edit ]External links
[edit ]- Media related to Snack foods of Japan at Wikimedia Commons
