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.[1] Anko is mainly eaten during the afternoon green tea time in Japan. School students eat it after school, at home.
- Botamochi
- Daifuku
- Ichigodaifuku - Daifuku with strawberry
- Dorayaki
- Manjū
- Monaka
- Imagawayaki
- Kusa mochi
- Taiyaki
- Yōkan
Yōkan with chestnut.
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
- brand
- Hello Panda
- Kappa Ebisen
- Koala's March
- Pocky – known as Mikado in Europe
- Pretz
- Yan Yan
A package of regular Yan Yan
Candy
- generic
- Amezaiku - Japanese candy craft artistry
- Aruheitō
- Konpeitō
- Ramune candy - compressed tablet candy
- brand
- Botan/Tomoe Ame
- Calpis Candy
- Chelsea (candy) – made by Meiji Confectionery in Japan
- Cubyrop
- gumi 100
- Hi-chew
- Milky (candy)
- Pinky
- Poifull
- Puccho
- Puré gumi candy - gummy candy with fruit purée made by KANRO Co., Ltd.
Chewing gum
- Black Black
- Fuwarinka
- Kiss Mint and Watering Kissmint
- Let's
- Plus X
- Poscam
- Pure White
- Sweetie
- whatta – chewing gum by Meiji Confectionary
- 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]
- Kinoko no yama - known as CHOCOROOMS in US
- Koara no māchi
- Ghana
- Pocky – known as Mikado in Europe
- Pucca Chocolate
- Takenoko no sato - known as CHOCOCONES in US
- Toppo
Ice cream & shaved ice
- generic
Green tea Kakigōri(left) and strawberry flavoured Kakigōri(right).
- brand
- Choco Monaka Jumbo , manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
- Panapp [3]
- Yukimi Daifuku
Potato
- generic
- Ishiyakiimo - roasted sweet potato
- Kenpi
- brand
- Bōkun Habanero
- Jagarico , manufactured by Calbee.
- Kara Mucho and Suppa Mucho
- Kataage Potato
- Pote Long , manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
- Wasabeef - wasabi & beef flavoured potato chips
- Ototo - potato snack in shape of seafood.
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.
Rice based snacks are known as beika (米菓).
Hanami Dango
- brand
Seafood
Street foods
Mixed and other
Producers
See also
References
External links
- Media related to Snack foods of Japan at Wikimedia Commons