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Template:SHORTDESC: This is a list of Japanese snacks (お菓子, okashi) and finger foods. It includes both brand name and generic snacks.
Types
[edit | edit source]Anko, or sweet bean paste
[edit | edit source]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
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Ichigo daifuku
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Cut surface of taiyaki
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Yōkan with chestnut
Bean
[edit | edit source]Beans with salt are mainly taken with beer in the evening.
- Edamame
- Soramame - boiled broad bean
- Ikarimame - fried broad bean
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Soramame
Bread/Wheat Flour
[edit | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- 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.
Cake
[edit | edit source]Chewing gum
[edit | edit source]- 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 | edit source]Chocolate
[edit | edit source]- 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
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Ice cream & shaved ice
[edit | edit source]- 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, manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
- Panapp[3]
- Yukimi Daifuku
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Yukimi Daifuku
Potato
[edit | edit source]- 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, manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
- Wasabeef - wasabi & beef flavoured potato chips
- Ototo - potato snack in shape of seafood.
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Pote Long
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Wasabeef
Rice
[edit | edit source]- 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).
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Hanami dango
- brand
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Seafood
[edit | edit source]Street foods
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Mixed and other
[edit | edit source]Producers
[edit | edit source]See also
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- Japanese instant noodles
- List of Japanese dishes
- List of snack foods by country
- Snacking
- Wagashi
- Sakana
References
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- ^ Stanlaw, James. Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact, page 201. Hong Kong University Press. Hong Kong.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
