Festival food
Made for a festival or a public holiday.
Pancake
🇺🇸 United States and 5 moreFlat cakes made from batter, cooked on a griddle or pan and served sweet or savoury
Main dish, Breakfast, Snacks
Crêpe
🇫🇷 FranceThin French pancakes, served sweet or savoury with a range of fillings
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Misalमिसळ
🇮🇳 IndiaSpicy sprouted bean curry layered with toppings, served hot with bread
Main dish, Breakfast, Snacks
Churrochurros
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 moreRidged, deep-fried dough sticks often eaten hot with chocolate or coffee
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Börek
🇹🇷 Turkey and 5 moreFlaky pastry filled with cheese, meat or vegetables, baked or fried
Pie or savoury pastry, Breakfast, Lunch
KhachapuriVegetarianხაჭაპური
🇬🇪 Georgia and 4 moreLeavened bread filled with cheese, sometimes egg, from Georgia
Bread, Breakfast, Lunch
PuriVegan
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreUnleavened wheat flatbread, deep-fried until puffed and golden
Bread, Breakfast, Snacks
Nasi goreng
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 5 moreSoutheast Asian fried rice seasoned with sweet soy sauce and spices
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Paratha
🇮🇳 India and 5 moreLayered flatbread from the Indian subcontinent, often fried and sometimes stuffed
Bread, Breakfast, Lunch
Bliniблины
🇷🇺 Russia and 3 moreThin Russian pancakes made with yeast or unyeasted batter
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
ĆevapiMeatћевапи
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina and 5 moreGrilled minced meat rolls served with flatbread and onions in Southeast Europe
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Jiaozi餃子
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreChinese dumplings with meat or vegetable filling, served boiled, steamed or fried
Dumpling, Breakfast, Lunch
Arepa
🇨🇴 Colombia and 5 moreCornmeal flatbread from Colombia and Venezuela, often split and filled
Bread, Breakfast, Lunch
SimitVegan
🇹🇷 Turkey and 5 moreRing-shaped bread with a sesame seed crust, sold by street vendors
Bread, Breakfast, Snacks
Dumpling
🇨🇳 China and 5 morePieces of dough, plain or filled, cooked by boiling, steaming or frying
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
AkaraVeganàkàrà
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 5 moreWest African bean fritters, deep-fried and eaten hot as street food or breakfast
Street food, Breakfast, Snacks
Chole bhatureVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaChickpea curry served with deep-fried, puffy bread
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Shumai烧卖 / 燒賣
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreChinese dumplings filled with seasoned meat, often served as dim sum
Dumpling, Breakfast, Lunch
Black puddingMeatmarag dhubh
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreA sausage made from animal blood, fat and cereal, cooked in a casing
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Migas
🇪🇸 Spain and 2 moreA dish of leftover bread or tortillas, cooked with savoury ingredients
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
PutoVegan
🇵🇭 PhilippinesSteamed Filipino rice cake, often eaten plain or with savoury dishes
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Turnip cake蘿蔔糕
🇨🇳 China and 4 moreSteamed and often pan-fried cake of daikon radish and rice flour, served as dim sum
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Longaniza
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 moreA seasoned sausage with many regional styles across Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines
Sausage or cured food, Breakfast, Lunch
DoupiMeat豆皮
🇨🇳 ChinaWuhan breakfast pancake filled with rice, meat and other savoury ingredients
Main dish, Breakfast
Bourekasבורקס
🇮🇱 IsraelBaked turnovers with savory or sweet fillings, popular in Israel and Sephardic Jewish cooking
Street food, Breakfast, Lunch
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Migas: Nanow jesús madrid 21:40, 6 May 2007 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Paratha: Wagaung at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Doupi: ZhengZhou, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Akara: AkinkuotuFunmi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Nasi goreng: shankar s., CC BY 2.0, source
- Jiaozi: Bioniclepluslotr, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Simit: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Arepa: Steven Depolo, CC BY 2.0, source
- Crêpe: David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pancake: Brandon Martin-Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Churro: Garry Knight, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Misal: Nick Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Chole bhature: MaharajaMandy, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Shumai: Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Börek: Silar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Black pudding: Alexbrn, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blini: The original uploader was Hugo.arg at Lithuanian Wikipedia ., Public domain, source
- Ćevapi: amanderson2, CC BY 2.0, source
- Puto: Danangtrihartanto, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Dumpling: Kobako, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Turnip cake: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Longaniza: Koffermejia, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bourekas: Shlomif at en.wikipedia, Public domain, source