Snacks around the world
Eaten between meals, in the hand, on the move.
RavioliRavioliai
🇮🇹 Italy and 4 moreStuffed pasta parcels, usually square, with varied fillings and sauces
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Pierogi
🇵🇱 Poland and 6 moreDumplings of unleavened dough filled with savory or sweet mixtures
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Momo
🇳🇵 Nepal and 3 moreSteamed dumplings filled with meat or vegetables, served with spicy sauces
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Baozi包子
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreSteamed wheat buns filled with meat or vegetables, common across China and beyond
Main dish, Breakfast, Snacks
DangoVegan団子
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese sweet dumplings made from rice flour, often served on skewers
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
Wonton云吞
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreChinese dumplings with a thin wrapper, filled and served in soup or fried
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Jiaozi餃子
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreChinese dumplings with meat or vegetable filling, served boiled, steamed or fried
Dumpling, Breakfast, Lunch
Zongzi粽子
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreSticky rice parcels with sweet or savoury fillings, wrapped in leaves and steamed or boiled
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Dumpling
🇨🇳 China and 5 morePieces of dough, plain or filled, cooked by boiling, steaming or frying
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Tangyuan汤圆 / 湯圓
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreGlutinous rice balls, often filled, served in sweet or savory broth
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
Xiaolongbao小笼包
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreSmall steamed buns with a savoury filling and hot soup inside
Dumpling, Breakfast, Snacks
Shumai烧卖 / 燒賣
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreChinese dumplings filled with seasoned meat, often served as dim sum
Dumpling, Breakfast, Lunch
Kalduny
🇧🇾 Belarus and 3 moreDumplings of soft dough filled with meat, mushrooms, or fruit
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
KozhukattaVegetarianകൊഴുക്കട്ട (Malayalam), கொழுகட்டை (Tamil)
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreSteamed rice flour dumplings filled with sweet coconut and jaggery
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Qingtuan青团
🇨🇳 ChinaGreen glutinous rice dumpling filled with sweet or savory paste, eaten at Qingming Festival
Dumpling, Snacks
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Baozi: J. Samuel Burner, CC BY 2.0, source
- Momo: TAPAS KUMAR HALDER, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Zongzi: The original uploader was Allentchang at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Jiaozi: Bioniclepluslotr, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dango: Maakun, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ravioli: OneArmedMan, Public domain, source
- Wonton: Oldie~commonswiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tangyuan: cherrylet, CC BY 2.0, source
- Xiaolongbao: Eason Lai, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Shumai: Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Kalduny: Хомелка, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dumpling: Kobako, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Kozhukatta: Jayashree Govindarajan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Qingtuan: 猫猫的日记本, CC BY-SA 3.0, source