List of Japanese snacks

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.

Bean

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

Bread/Wheat Flour

generic
brand

Candy

generic
brand
  • Milky (candy) [ja]
    Milky (candy) [ja]
  • Puccho [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]
    Apollo (chocolate) [ja]
  • Choco Baby [ja]
    Choco Baby [ja]
  • Choco Ball [ja]
    Choco Ball [ja]
  • DARS (chocolate) [ja]
    DARS (chocolate) [ja]
  • Pocky
    Pocky
  • Kinoko no yama
    Kinoko no yama
  • Takenoko no sato [ja]
    Takenoko no sato [ja]

Ice cream & shaved ice

generic
brand
  • Choco Monaka Jumbo [ja]
    Choco Monaka Jumbo [ja]
  • Yukimi Daifuku
    Yukimi Daifuku

Potato

generic
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.

Rice

generic
  • Small onigiris convenient for snacks
    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.
    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
    Modern onigiris wrapped in a small, transparent plastic bag

Rice based snacks are known as beika (米菓).

brand

Seafood

Street foods

Grilling yakitori

Mixed and other

Producers

See also

References

  1. ^ "How to Make Anko (Red Bean Paste) 餡子". 10 March 2020.
  2. ^ 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)".

External links

  • Media related to Snack foods of Japan at Wikimedia Commons
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