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Spring roll
Spring roll (春卷, chunjuan; Japanese harumaki, Vietnamese nem/goi cuon): a Chinese rolled food of thin wheat wrapper around vegetable, meat, or sweet filling, usually deep fried, eaten at lichun and New Year, with fresh rice-paper variants in Vietnam.
Taco
Taco: Mexican dish of a folded or rolled corn or flour tortilla around meat, beans, or salsa; varieties include al pastor, carnitas, and tacos de minero; distinct from the fried Tex-Mex hard-shell taco.
Taiyaki (たい焼き)
Taiyaki (たい焼き) is a Japanese sea-bream-shaped baked wheat confection filled with anko, derived from imagawayaki in the Meiji era; attributed to Naniwaya Sohonten (1909, Tokyo), founder Kanbe Seijiro, with tennen (single-mold) versus yoshoku (mass-produced) styles and the Korean relative bungeoppang.
Takoyaki (たこ焼き)
Takoyaki (たこ焼き), grilled octopus balls, is an Osaka street food invented in 1935 by Aizuya's Endo Tomekichi from rajioyaki; batter with dashi, egg, octopus, and tenkasu, cooked in a dimpled griddle, topped with sauce and mayonnaise.
Tamago Sando
Tamago Sando is a Japanese egg salad sandwich made with creamy mashed eggs and soft shokupan. It is a standard convenience store item that has gained international popularity.
Tanghulu (糖葫芦)
Tanghulu (糖葫芦, bingtanghulu) is a Chinese winter street snack of fruit, classically hawthorn, skewered and dipped in sugar syrup cooked to the hard-crack stage (~300°F), forming a glassy shell; Song-dynasty origin, cariogenic like jam, viral on TikTok with burn warnings.
Taquito
Taquito (Spanish, 'little taco'), also called rolled taco, taco dorado, or flauta: a Mexican dish of small rolled tortillas, usually corn, filled with beef, chicken, or cheese and fried until crisp; word attested 1917 in New Mexico, defined 1929.
Tater tots
Tater tots: bite-sized fried potato nuggets invented in 1953 by Golden and Nephi Grigg at Ore-Ida in Ontario, Oregon, to use French fry scraps; trademarked by Ore-Ida, released 1956, sold to Heinz in 1965.
Tiffin
Tiffin: Anglo-Indian word for a light midday meal, snack, or afternoon tea; also the stacked steel lunch carrier and, in Mumbai, the dabbawala-delivered packed lunch. South Indian tiffin rooms serve dosas, idli, and filter coffee.
Tostones
Tostones, also patacones or fritos verdes, are twice-fried flattened green plantain discs, a savory staple side across the Caribbean and Latin America, distinct from sweet maduros.
Trail mix
Trail mix (also gorp, scroggin, or Studentenfutter) is a portable snack mix of dried fruit, nuts, and often chocolate or granola for hikers; the earliest dated American recipe appears in Horace Kephart's 1906 camping guide.
Triple-cooked chips
Triple-cooked chips: thick-cut fried potatoes developed by Heston Blumenthal (c. 1992-1993) using simmering, low-temperature frying at 130°C, and final frying at 180°C for a crisp crust.
Vada (வடை) (food)
Vada (வடை) is a savoury Indian deep-fried snack of ground pulses, flour, or vegetables. Best known as medu vada, a ring-shaped urad dal fritter with sambar and chutney; in Mumbai it names the potato patty of vada pav.
Vada pav
Vada pav (वड़ा पाव), also called the Indian or Mumbai burger, is a Maharashtrian street food: a spiced deep-fried potato fritter (batata vada) in a soft pav roll with chutneys. Credited to Ashok Vaidya at Dadar station in the late 1960s and tied to Shiv Sena politics.
Virgin boy egg
Virgin boy egg (童子蛋, tongzi dan) is a Dongyang, Zhejiang springtime dish of eggs boiled in the urine of boys under ten; listed as Dongyang municipal intangible cultural heritage in 2008, with disputed health claims.