List of Japanese snacks explained

This is a list of Japanese 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
  • - 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
• - 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

Candy

generic

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

brand

• Botan/Tomoe Ame
• Calpis Candy
• – made by Meiji Confectionery in Japan
• Cubyrop
• gumi 100
• Hi-chew
  • Pinky

• • Puré gumi candy - gummy candy with fruit purée made by KANRO Co., Ltd.

Cake

• Tokyo Banana

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

• Curl (Japanese snack)
• Kyabetsu Taro

Chocolate

generic

• Matcha chocolate - chocolate containing matcha

brand

• - chocolate in shape of Apollo command module
  • • • Crunky kids
  • 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
• - known as CHOCOCONES in US
• Toppo

Ice cream & shaved ice

generic

• Green tea ice cream
• Kakigōri
• Mochi ice cream

brand

• , 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
• , manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
• - wasabi & beef flavoured potato chips
• - 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.

Rice based snacks are known as .

• Agemochi
• Arare
• Botamochi
• Daifuku
• Dango
• Kaki no tane
  • Kusa mochi
• Mochi
• Senbei

See also: Wagashi.

brand

• Bakauke
• Olive no Hana
• Onigiri senbei

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

• Calbee
• Glico
• Kameda Seika
• Koikeya
• Kuriyama Beika
• Lotte
• Meiji
• Morinaga
• Tohato
• Yamayoshi

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 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. Web site: アイス | 【公式】江崎グリコ(Glico).