Snacks around the world
Eaten between meals, in the hand, on the move.
Chuanr串
🇨🇳 ChinaGrilled skewers of meat, seafood or vegetables from northern China
Grill or roast, Dinner, Snacks
Inihaw
🇵🇭 PhilippinesGrilled meats and seafood, often on skewers, from the Philippines
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Mu pingMeatหมูปิ้ง
🇹🇭 ThailandCharcoal-grilled pork skewers, a popular Thai street food often served with sticky rice
Street food, Breakfast, Lunch
SouvlakiMeatσουβλάκι
🇬🇷 Greece and 1 moreGrilled meat skewers, often served in pita with salad and sauce
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
AnticuchoMeat
🇵🇪 Peru and 3 moreGrilled skewers of marinated meat, often beef heart, from the Andes
Main dish, Dinner, Snacks
SuyaMeat
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 1 moreSpiced grilled meat skewers from the Hausa tradition of northern Nigeria
Main dish, Dinner, Snacks
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Chuanr: Mizu basyo at Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Souvlaki: EntaXoyas, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Anticucho: No machine-readable author provided. Manuel González Olaechea assumed, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Suya: WhisperToMe, CC0, source
- Inihaw: George Parrilla, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mu ping: Phoebus 28, CC BY-SA 4.0, source