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samosa
A samosa () () is a fried Indian pastry with a savoury filling that mostly consists of vegetables like spiced potatoes, onions, and peas, but can include cheese such as paneer, meat or even fish. Its name originates from the Middle Persian word sambosag () (meaning 'triangular pastry'). It is made in different shapes, including triangular, cone, or crescent, depending on the region. Samosas are often accompanied by chutney, and have origins in medieval times or earlier. Sweet versions containing traditional Indian flavours or even chocolate are also made. Samosas are popular snacks in South As
satay
Satay or sate is a Southeast Asian dish consisting of small pieces of seasoned meat, seafood or vegetables skewered on sticks and grilled over charcoal. It is typically served with a sauce, most commonly peanut-based and accompanied by rice cakes, cucumber or pickled vegetables. Common ingredients include chicken, beef, goat, pork and seafood, while regional and vegetarian variations are also found.
lemang
Lemang is a Malay and Minangkabau traditional food made from glutinous rice, coconut milk, and salt, cooked in a hollowed bamboo tube coated with banana leaves in order to prevent the rice from sticking to the bamboo. Lemang is believed to have origins linked to the ancient Proto-Malay and Deutero-Malay peoples who settled across Maritime Southeast Asia centuries ago. Similar dishes made from sticky rice in bamboo are common throughout Mainland Southeast Asia.
poffertjes
Poffertjes () are traditional Dutch batter cakes. Resembling small, fluffy pancakes, they are made with yeast and flour. Typically, poffertjes are sweet treats served with powdered sugar and butter, and sometimes syrup or advocaat. A savoury variant with gouda cheese is also made.
banana fritter
deep fried banana or plantain
banana chip
dried, crispy slice of banana
krupuk
Krupuk (), also known as keropok () and kropek () refers to traditional deep-fried crackers made from starch combined with flavouring ingredients such as prawn, fish or other seafood. The food has long-standing traditions throughout maritime Southeast Asia and neighbouring coastal regions, particularly in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, southern Thailand, Brunei and Singapore.
Dodol
Dodol, also known as kalamae (), or mont kalar mei () is a traditional sweet confection of Southeast Asia, particularly associated with Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand and Myanmar. It is made by slowly simmering coconut milk and palm sugar with rice flour or glutinous rice until it thickens into a sticky, chewy consistency.
lontong
Lontong () is an Indonesian dish made of compressed rice cake in the form of a cylinder wrapped inside a banana leaf, commonly found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Rice is rolled inside a banana leaf and boiled, then cut into small cakes as a staple food replacement for steamed rice. The texture is similar to that of ketupat, with the difference being that the ketupat container is made from woven janur (young coconut leaf) fronds, while lontong uses banana leaves instead.
Tapai
thumb|Tapuy, a traditional Ifugao [[rice wine prepared with tapay in the Cordillera highlands of Luzon, Philippines]] thumb|Dried alcoholic fermented cassava or peuyeum at Yogyakarta, [[Indonesia]]
apam balik
Southeast Asian pancake
prawn cracker
prawn-flavored cracker
otak-otak
Otak-otak (lit. brains in Malay and Indonesian; ) is a Southeast Asian fish cake made of ground fish mixed with spices and wrapped in leaf parcels. Otak-otak is traditionally served steamed or grilled, encased within the leaf parcel it is cooked in, and can be eaten solely as a snack or with steamed rice as part of a meal.
Kuih
Kuih (Jawi: ; Indonesian: ; derived from Southern Min  ) are bite-sized snack or dessert foods commonly found in Southeast Asia (particularly in the Malay Archipelago) and China. It is a fairly broad term which may include items that would be called cakes, cookies, dumplings, pudding, biscuits, or pastries in English and are usually made from rice or glutinous rice. In China, where the term originates, in Hokkien and kué in Teochew (known as in Mandarin) refer to snacks which are typically made from rice but can occasionally be made from other grains, such as wheat. The term is widely use
curry puff
snack pie
Guazi
Guazi (; ), also called kwasi () refers to roasted plant seeds. It is a popular snack in China, Malaysia and overseas Chinese communities, especially in Indonesia. While directly translated as "melon seeds" it usually refers to baked seeds of the sunflower, pumpkin, or watermelon seeds. It is often served as an appetizer during banquets.
kolak
Indonesian dessert
Wajik
Wajik or wajid, also known as pulut manis, is a traditional glutinous sweet made with rice, sugar and coconut milk. It is an Indonesian kue, and a kuih of Brunei, Singapore and Malaysia (especially in the state of Sabah).
emping
Emping () is a type of Indonesian chip, a bite-size snack kripik cracker, made of melinjo or belinjo (Gnetum gnemon) nuts (which are seeds). Emping crackers have a slightly bitter taste. Emping snacks are available in markets either plain (original), salty, spicy, or sweet, depending on whether salt or caramelized sugar is added.
brem
thumb|upright|Eagle brand Balinese brem
Roti jala
type of pancake that looks like lace originating from Johor history
amplang
Amplang, also known as kerupuk kuku macan, is a traditional savoury fish cracker snack commonly found in Indonesia and Malaysia. Amplang crackers are commonly made of ikan tenggiri (wahoo) or any type of Spanish mackerel, mixed with starch and other materials before being deep-fried.
Arem-Arem
Arem-arem is an Indonesian-Javanese compressed rice cake in the form of a cylinder wrapped inside a banana leaf, filled with diced vegetables, tempeh, or oncom, and eaten as a snack. It is sometimes also filled with minced meat or abon (beef floss). Arem-arem is often described as a smaller size lontong with fillings, so it is sometimes also called lontong isi ().
Cokodok
Jemput-jemput or cekodok is a traditional fritter popular in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore that is made from wheat flour. It is usually round in shape and tends to vary in size. There are many varieties of this snack, some using banana, anchovies or prawns, onion or maize.
rempeyek
Rempeyek or peyek is a deep-fried savoury Indonesian-Javanese cracker made from flour (usually rice flour) with other ingredients, bound or coated by crispy flour batter. The most common type of rempeyek is peyek kacang ("peanut peyek"); However, other ingredients can be used instead, such as teri (dried anchovies), rebon (small shrimp), or ebi (dried shrimp). Today, rempeyek is commonly found in Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as in countries with considerable Indonesian migrant populations, such as The Netherlands and Suriname.
kue bangkit
Indonesian sago cookies
clorot
Clorot, celorot, cerorot, or jelurut is an Indonesian traditional sweet snack (kue or kuih) made of sweet and soft rice flour cake with coconut milk, wrapped with janur or young coconut leaf in cone shape. It is a popular traditional sweet snack commonly found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
rengginang
thumb|Larger sized intip sold in Cirebon
tapioca chips
thin wafer of deep fried cassava root
uih sepit
Indonesian traditional cookies
Kembang Goyang
Indonesian snack
Kaasstengels
thumb|Kaasstengels made by the monks from the Rawaseneng Monastery in Kandangan, Temanggung.
kripik
Kripik or keripik are Indonesian chips or crisps, bite-size snack crackers that can be savoury or sweet. They are made from various dried fruits, tubers, vegetables, and fish that have undergone a deep frying process in hot vegetable oil. They can be lightly seasoned with salt, or spiced with chili powder and sugar.
Koci
Malaysian traditional dumpling
Pisang cokelat
Indonesian sweet snack made of slices of banana with melted chocolate
chips sanjay
Indonesian chips
bakpau
REDIRECT Baozi#Types
Skin Crackers
traditional Indonesian crackers made of cattle skin
Madumongso
Madumongso or madumangsa is a Javanese snack made from black sticky rice as the main ingredient. The sweet flavour is a result of fermenting black sticky rice into tapai and then it is cooked to become dodol. Madumongso originates from Ponorogo, East Java.