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. It includes both brand name and generic snacks.

Bean

  • Edamame
    Edamame
    or Edamame bean is a preparation of immature soybeans in the pod commonly found in Japan, China, and Hawaii. The pods are boiled in water together with condiments such as salt, and served whole....

  • Kaki peanuts
    Kaki peanuts
    Kaki-peanuts, or "Kaki-pi," are a common snack in Japan. The two elements of Kaki-pi are kaki-no-tane , small crescent-shaped fragments of senbei , and peanuts. They are often consumed with beer and are sometimes a bar snack. The name comes from the fact that a piece of senbei looks like a seed of...

  • Toriaezu Edamame
  • Botamochi
    Botamochi
    are a springtime treat made with sweet rice and sweet azuki paste. They are made by soaking sweet rice for approximately six hours. The rice is then cooked, and a thick azuki paste is hand-packed around pre-formed balls of rice....


Bread

  • Hello Panda
    Hello Panda
    Hello Panda is a brand of Japanese biscuit, manufactured by Meiji Seika. Each biscuit consists of a small hollow shortbread layer, filled with either Milk cream, strawberry, or chocolate filling; chocolate is the most commonly available variety...

  • Kappa Ebisen
    Kappa Ebisen
    is a Japanese snack food produced by Calbee of Japan. It is a crunchy, shrimp-flavored snack resembling french fries that is very popular in Japan....

  • Koala's March
  • Pocky
    Pocky
    is a Japanese snack food produced by the Ezaki Glico Company of Japan.-History:Pocky was first sold in 1966, and consists of a biscuit stick coated with chocolate. It was named after the Japanese onomatopoetic word for the sound Pocky makes when bitten, pokkin . The original was followed by...

  • Pretz
    Pretz
    Pretz is a Japanese snack made by Ezaki Glico. Like Ezaki Glico's other popular snack, Pocky, Pretz is stick-shaped and comes with a texture similar to pretzels. Unlike Pocky, Pretz is dusted with seasonings instead of enrobed in a flavored fudge.Pretz comes in a few varieties and three sizes:...

  • Yan Yan
    Yan Yan (snack)
    Yan Yan is a Japanese snack food made by Meiji Seika. It comes in a package with two compartments. One side has biscuit sticks , and the other has chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, or yogurt flavored frosting used for dipping. The sticks themselves may also be flavored...


Candy

  • Calpis
    Calpis
    is a Japanese uncarbonated soft drink, manufactured by , headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo.The beverage has a light, somewhat milky, and slightly acidic flavor, similar to plain or vanilla-flavored yogurt or Yakult...

     Candy
  • Hi-chew
    Hi-chew
    is a fruit-flavored chewy Japanese candy sold by Morinaga & Company.- About the candy :The soft, chewy kouros was first released in 1975. It was re-released in its current shape in February 1986....

  • Puccho
    Puccho
    is a chewy Japanese snack made and sold by UHA Mikakuto. There are two types of Pucchos: stick type and puccho gumi. Both types come in many different flavors...

  • Pucca
  • Chelsea- A candy product made by Meiji Confectionery in Japan.
  • Cubyrop
  • Pinky (candy)
    Pinky (candy)
    Pinky candy is a brand of mint-flavored candy sold by Frente International. Flavors currently available in the new rectangular packaging are Peach, Grape, and Grape Fruit; Pinky also comes in a smaller, rounded container. Pinky is famous largely for its monkey mascot, aptly named Pinky Monkey...

  • Milky
  • Ramune
    Ramune
    is a carbonated soft drink originally sold in Japan which was introduced in Kobe by Alexander Cameron Sim.-Bottle design:Ramune is widely known for the distinctive design of its bottle, often called Codd-neck bottles after the inventor, Hiram Codd. They are made of glass and sealed with a marble;...

     Candy
  • Poifull
  • Botan/Tomoe Ame
    Botan Rice Candy
    Botan Rice Candy is a soft, chewy, slightly lemon-orange flavored candy with an outer layer of rice paper. The rice paper is clear and plastic-like when dry, but it is edible and dissolves in the mouth...

  • gumi 100

Chewing gum

  • Black Black
    Black Black
    is a brand of caffeinated chewing gum produced in Japan by Lotte. It has been sold since 1983, and is popular in Japan, partially due to its well-known television commercials that star Jean-Claude Van Damme. It became popular in the United States after being mentioned in Wired Magazine...

  • Kiss Mint and Watering Kissmint
  • Sweetie
  • Xylish
  • whatta (chewing gum by meiji)
  • Pure White
  • Poscam
  • Fuwarinka
  • Yuzu
  • Plus X

Chocolate

  • Choco Baby
  • Choco Ball
  • Crunky
  • Crunky kids
  • Dars
    Darß
    The Darß is the middle part of the peninsula of Fischland-Darß-Zingst on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The peninsula's name comes from the names of the three regions making up the peninsula. There is a large forest in the Darß...

  • Lotte Ghana
    Lotte Ghana
    is a popular Japanese chocolate brand made by the Lotte Confectionery. The name is taken from Ghana, the world's second-largest exporter of cacao beans from which chocolate is made...

  • Kinoko no yama
  • Takenoko no sato
  • Koara no māchi
    Koara no machi
    is a bite-sized cookie snack with a sweet filling inside. It is made by Lotte, and the product was first released in Japan, and was released in March 1984 as "Koala Yummies" in the United States...

  • Pocky
    Pocky
    is a Japanese snack food produced by the Ezaki Glico Company of Japan.-History:Pocky was first sold in 1966, and consists of a biscuit stick coated with chocolate. It was named after the Japanese onomatopoetic word for the sound Pocky makes when bitten, pokkin . The original was followed by...

  • Pucca Chocolate
    Pucca Chocolate
    Pucca Chocolate is a Japanese baked wafer candy with a chocolate center. It is created by the Meiji Seika Kaisha Corporation and has several distributors in the United States, though it is still in very limited supply and is considered a niche product. It can primarily be found in asian market...

  • Toppo
    Toppo
    Toppo also known as "reverse pocky" , is a chocolate and bread-based snack made by Lotte. Normally it consists of a hollowed bread stick with a filling of chocolate...

  • Jaffat
  • E-Royce'

Ice cream

  • Green tea ice cream
    Green tea ice cream
    or Matcha ice is a Japanese ice cream flavour. This flavour is extremely popular in Japan and other parts of East Asia, and almost all ice cream manufacturers produce a version of it, including foreign vendors such as Häagen-Dazs and Baskin Robbins. The name matcha comes from a specific type of...

  • Kakigori
    Kakigori
    is a Japanese shaved ice dessert flavored with syrup and condensed milk.Popular flavors include: strawberry, cherry, lemon, green tea, grape, melon, "Blue Hawaii," sweet plum, and colorless syrup. Some shops provide colorful varieties by using two or more different syrups. To sweeten kakigōri,...

  • Monaka
    Monaka
    is a Japanese sweet made of azuki bean jam filling sandwiched between two thin crisp wafers made from mochi. The jam can not only be made from azuki beans but also with sesame seed, chestnuts, or rice cake ....

  • Yukimi Daifuku
    Yukimi Daifuku
    Yukimi Daifuku is a brand of mochi ice cream manufactured by Lotte. It consists of a ball of vanilla ice cream wrapped in a thin layer of mochi, or rice cake. Lotte originally created Wataboshi , a bite-size ice cream wrapped in a thin layer of marshmallow in 1980...

  • Fuki Lakatori
  • Panapp http://www.glico.co.jp/ice/ice/panapp.htm
  • Mochi

Potato

  • Kataage Potato
  • Bōkun Habanero
    Bokun Habanero
    Bōkun Habanero is a Japanese snack food. The name means "Tyrant Habanero", where habanero is the name of one of the world's hottest chili peppers...

  • Jagariko
  • Kara Mucho
    Kara Mucho
    Kara Mucho is a Japanese snack food. Most popular spicy snack in Japan.The snack consists of potato sticks or potato chips, and is moderately spicy by Japanese standards.Each 57g packet contains 301 calories.-External links:...

     and Suppa Mucho
  • Pote Long
  • Wasabeef

Rice

Rice based snacks that are known as- .
  • Agemochi
    Agemochi
    is a popular Japanese snack food made from fried mochi . The dry mochi is broken into small pieces, about 1cm cubed, and deep fried. The pieces then puff up. It is usually eaten lightly salted, but there are also various flavoured versions, such as shichimi agemochi, agemochi covered with shichimi...

  • Arare
  • Bakauke
    Bakauke
    is a Japanese snack food. It is a thin banana-shaped senbei with various flavours added. It is manufactured by Kuriyama Beika of Niigata Prefecture....

  • Daifuku
    Daifuku
    ', or ' , is a Japanese confection consisting of a small round mochi stuffed with sweet filling, most commonly anko, sweetened red bean paste made from azuki beans....

  • Dango
    Dango
    is a Japanese dumpling made from mochiko , related to mochi. It is often served with green tea.Dango are eaten year-round, but the different varieties are traditionally eaten in given seasons...

  • Kaminari okoshi
  • Kusa mochi
    Kusa mochi
    , also known as yomogi mochi, is a Japanese sweet. It is considered a seasonal dish for spring. It is made from mochi and leaf of yomogi , or more traditionally from the Gnaphalium affine . It may also be filled with red bean paste.Kusa mochi may also be used to make a kind of daifuku called yomogi...

  • Onigiri
    Onigiri
    , also known as or rice ball, is a Japanese food made from white rice formed into triangular or oval shapes and often wrapped in nori . Traditionally, an onigiri is filled with pickled ume , salted salmon, katsuobushi, kombu, tarako, or any other salty or sour ingredient as a natural preservative...

  • Olive no Hana
    Olive no Hana
    is one type of arare which is made by in Hyōgo Prefecture in Japan. It is an assortment of arare which has many savory flavors, squares of kombu and dried thick nori....

  • Senbei
    Senbei
    are a type of Japanese rice crackers. They come in various shapes, sizes, and flavors, usually savory but sometimes sweet. Senbei are often eaten with green tea as a casual snack and offered to visiting house guests as a courtesy refreshment....

  • Botamochi
    Botamochi
    are a springtime treat made with sweet rice and sweet azuki paste. They are made by soaking sweet rice for approximately six hours. The rice is then cooked, and a thick azuki paste is hand-packed around pre-formed balls of rice....


Seafood

  • Ebi
    Ebi (disambiguation)
    Ebi may refer to the following people:*Ebi - *Akiko Ebi - *Euzebiusz Smolarek - *Ndudi Ebi - *Ebi -...

     senbei
    Senbei
    are a type of Japanese rice crackers. They come in various shapes, sizes, and flavors, usually savory but sometimes sweet. Senbei are often eaten with green tea as a casual snack and offered to visiting house guests as a courtesy refreshment....

  • Miyako Konbu
  • Tsurume
  • Yotchan Ika

Street foods

  • Korokke
    Korokke
    Korokke is the Japanese name for a deep fried dish originally related to a French dish, the croquette. It was introduced in the early 1900s. This dish is also popular in South Korea where it is typically sold in bakeries....

  • Takoyaki
    Takoyaki
    is a popular ball-shaped Japanese dumpling or more like a savory pancake made of batter and cooked in a special takoyaki pan...

  • Nikuman
    Nikuman
    Nikuman is a Japanese food made from flour dough, and filled with cooked ground pork or other ingredients. It is a kind of chūka man similar to the Chinese baozi , also known in English as pork buns.Nikuman are steamed and often sold as street food...

  • Taiyaki
    Taiyaki
    is a Japanese fish-shaped cake. The most common filling is red bean paste that is made from sweetened azuki beans. Other common fillings may be custard, chocolate, or cheese. Some shops even sell taiyaki with okonomiyaki, gyoza filling, or a sausage inside....

  • Ōbanyaki
  • Yakitori
    Yakitori
    , grilled chicken, is commonly a Japanese type of skewered chicken. The term Yakitori can also refer to skewered food in general. Kushiyaki , is a formal term that encompasses both poultry and non-poultry items, skewered and grilled...


Producers

  • Calbee
    Calbee
    Calbee Foods Co. is a major Japanese snack food maker. It was founded on April 30, 1949. It launched operations at a new plant in the United States for making its mainstay products "Kappa Ebisen" shrimp chips and "Saya-endo" snow pea crisps on Sept 18, 2007. Its snacks are hugely popular in Asia,...

  • Glico
  • Kameda Seika
  • Koikeya
  • Kuriyama Beika
  • Lotte
    Lotte (conglomerate)
    Lotte Co., Ltd. is a South Korean-Japanese Jaebeol and one of the largest food and shopping groups in South Korea and Japan. Lotte was established in June 1948, in Tokyo, by Japanese-educated, Korean businessman Shin Kyuk-Ho – also known as...

  • Meiji
    Meiji Seika
    is the trade name of a pharmaceutical company in Japan, , until March 31, 2011.It was the confectionery and pharmaceutical company that manufactures a wide range of products including Hello Panda and Yan Yan...

  • Morinaga
    Morinaga & Company
    is a confectionery company in Tokyo, Japan, in operation since August 15, 1899. Their products include candy and other confectioneries. Morinaga has Ayumi Hamasaki and Mao Asada appear in their commercials....

  • Tohato
    Tohato
    is a Japanese food company specialising in snack food.-Products:*All Raisin*Beano*Bōkun Habanero*Caramel corn*ふわ丸 Ninja snack*Harvest*Poteco*Chokobi -Advertisement campaign:...

  • Yamayoshi

See also

  • Japanese instant noodles
  • Snacking
    Snacking
    Snacking does not have a concrete definition. A study taken by Katherine Chaplin and Andrew Smith from the journal Appetite says, “Participants defined snacking as food or drink eaten between main meals”...

  • Wagashi
    Wagashi
    is a traditional Japanese confectionery which is often served with tea, especially the types made of mochi, azuki bean paste, and fruits.Wagashi is typically made from natural ingredients...

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