Buford Highway’s psychedelic snack aisles offer a global tour of the munchies

Find ceviche plantain chips, beef-flavored seaweed crackers, and matcha biscuit sticks at the Buford Highway Farmers Market

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To hold you over between BuHi restaurant meals, head to the snack aisles of the Buford Highway Farmers Market for an around-the-world tour of munchies, including visits to Mexico and South Korea, the Philippines and China, El Salvador and Russia. Our favorite of the bunch: GGE Wheat Crackers, which are like tiny cylinders of dry, prepackaged ramen noodles. The oddest: the Ukrainian, crouton-like bread snacks with an intensely smoky sausage flavor that will take you back to summer camp. The cutest: milk-chocolate mushroom caps with cookie stems from Lithuania. Not feeling any of those? We’ve got every other possible craving covered below.

Photography by Wedig + Laxton

Europe

Napolitanke bag and content spilled out

Napolitanke
Lemon-orange wafers (Croatia)

Funny Mushrooms bag and content spilled out

Funny Mushrooms
Milk chocolate cookies (Lithuania)

Nonstop bag and content spilled out

Non Stop
Dark chocolate candies (Norway)

Marmalade bag and content spilled out

Marmalade
“Funny little animals”gummies (Russia)

Flint bag and content spilled out

Flint
Sausage-flavored bread snacks (Ukraine)

Hafco bag and content spilled out

Hafco
Dutch licorice (Holland)

Central America/Mexico

Manitas bag and content spilled out

Manitas
Cheese puffs with salsa (El Salvador)

Alboroto bag and content spilled out

Alboroto
Caramel corn (El Salvador)

Zambos bag and content spilled out

Zambos
Ceviche-flavored plantain chips (Honduras)

Duvalin bag and content spilled out

Duvalín
Hazelnut-vanilla candy creams (Mexico)

Pulparindo bag and content spilled out

Pulparindo
Spicy tamarind-pulp candy (Mexico)

Asia

Lays bag and content spilled out

Lay’s
Mexican tomato chicken flavor (China)

Pocky bag and content spilled out

Pocky
Matcha biscuit sticks (Japan)

Wang Korepab bag and content spilled out

Wang Korepab
Beef- and chicken-flavored seaweed crackers (Korea)

Otap bag and content spilled out

Otap
Purple-yam sugar biscuits (Philippines)

Six Fortune bag and content spilled out

Six Fortune
Lobster-flavored chips (Taiwan)

GGE bag and content spilled out

GGE
Wheat crackers (Taiwan)

This article appears in our October 2019 issue.

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