I’m curious specifically about snacks, not meals or hoity-toity “cuisine”. I live in the US now, but spent several years in Asia. During that time, I became addicted to:
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[li]Pocky[/li][li]Yam-Yam[/li][li]Wasabi peas[/li][li]Yogloo yogurt drinks[/li][li]Mr. Brown coffee (served cold)[/li][/list]
How about you?
Oh, hell, I mucked that up but good.
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[li]Pocky[/li][li]Yam-Yam[/li][li]Wasabi peas[/li][li]Yogloo yogurt drinks[/li][li]Mr. Brown coffee (served cold)[/li][/list]
How about you?
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I’ve had yocky and wasabi peas at SF convention room parties; IMO, they rate a “meh.”
I suppose you would discount things that have become standards like salsa and nachos, yes?
I have tried wasabi peas and pocky and a few other miscellaneous Asian snacks, but I was not very fond of them. For me it would be more mid-east/Mediterranean food like houmus, tzatziki, and falafel that set my snack palate dancing.
Naan! I love the naan!
This always makes me think of these little cheese crackers we (we being my coworkers and I) used to eat by the case in Italy. These are prepackaged snacks, kind of like bugles in shape, filled with a chemical-flavored cheese product. Yum!
I think our Italian coworkers were always a little bemused that they were such a hit with us. I tried to google them, but I must be a little off on the spelling of the brand name because I can’t find anything. They were the kind of thing you could find on the shelves of just about any grocery store.
I love the tamarind candy I get at the Asian market. They are covered in big grains of sugar and have a nice sweet/sour tang. They also sell these fruit-flavored solid yogurt shots that are good.
I’ve had it with meals at Indian restaurants, but is it ever eaten as a snack food?
Do churros count? I love churros.
I love “gressins” (that’s the name in French, don’t know the name in English). It’s an Italian snack made of… hmm bread ?? Well, flour… maybe it’s the same thing Delphica described but I never tasted any with cheese, I love the “natural” ones, without any flavour. You can find them in some stores in France, but not in every store.
Pictures :
The thinner they are, the best it is (well, for my personnal taste !). The ones in the picture are not thin enough for me :dubious:
Apparently the English name is “breadsticks” (that says quite well what it is)
Thinner ones, but strangely curved… 
Ohhh, you mean grissini! Yep, “breadstick” or “breadsticks” is the English translation 
For some reason the Italian version is made very skinny. The longer they’re rolled out before baking, the more curved they become while baking.
One of my baking teachers from culinary school used to make crazy designs from grissini dough and use them as a combination appetizer/decoration for cocktail parties. She once showed me how to do it. Mine came out looking like spidery aliens from Mars 
I really like stuffed grape leaves.
Dried chilli squid.
Bombay mix.
Okonomiyaki flavor potato chips.
Wasabe peanuts/peas/whatever.
Japanese peanuts-and-fish beer snack.
And pretty much everything else above. I love snackfoods, especially spicy.
Sure. I snack on it all the time, by itself. Perhaps I’m a non-traditionalist. But I’m just a rebel that way.
Didn’t see Japanes okaki mentioned. Could nibble on that all day.
Nothing beats a good samosa, with some mango chutney.
It has to be potato filling; I am not as big of a fan of the beef or chicken ones. Not that I would ever turn them away though.
I can’t wait to get back to the city where I can get ethnic food.
I love Pocky. What about Botan Rice Candy, does that count? The kind where you can eat the wrapper and you get a cool temporary tattoo! I’m wearing my frog today.
Wasabi peas. They’re one of those things that I never think of until I see them in the store and as soon as I get home I wonder why I don’t get them more often.
Kasebrezeln. Just pretzels with some cheese on them, available in every train station and bakery in Germany. I haven’t seen them elsewhere, but when I’m over there, they account for, oh… half my caloric intake.
the coconut-flake type of pocky is excellent.
i’ll also throw in a mention of edamame.
