49 Asian Finger Food for 2025

What's a dinner party without a good selection of finger foods? These unique Finger Food recipes are simple to make ahead and cater for all diets: from vegan to carnivorous to healthy sugar-free! Perfect for a party, whether it's Christmas, Thanksgiving, or football Sunday Game Day.

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• 🐔 Chicken Wings
• 🍿 Snacks
• 🥬Vegan
• 🐄 Other Meat
• 🐟 Seafood
• 🥕 Vegetables
• Gluten Free
• Cheese
• Sweets
• Sugar Free Sweets
• 💬 Comments

The tangy calamansi lime juice, fresh ginger and fish sauce mixture will delight your taste buds!

Tip: substitute with lemon juice or rice wine vinegar if you can't get lime juice.

Chicken wings braised in a scrumptious soy sauce and hoisin sauce mixture till soft, juicy and tender. To give it a deeper flavor, you can use brown sugar instead of white and sprinkle with lightly toasted sesame seeds.

Better than any you get at a Chinese restaurant!

Tip: leftovers can be shredded to make chicken lettuce wraps!

For more homemade easy popcorn recipes, click here.

Note: If you've never popped corn on the stove before, it's super easy (and fun!), click the link for a Healthy Stovetop Popcorn Guide.

And since we're on the note of salted eggs...

By the way did you know it's really simple to make your own salted eggs at home? You just need salt, water, eggs and TIME!

These Asian "samosas" or "empanadas" are so popular in Singapore, you can find them at convenience stores at petrol stations, albeit the puff pastry version and not the traditional dough type!

Make sure you use margarine and vegetable stock if vegan!

Note: If you're not vegan and not a potato fan, stuff them with tuna curry instead.

Tip: you can do the same and use puff pastry or even phyllo dough to speed ups he process. Curry puffs freezer really well too, so make a huge batch and keep the rest for your next party!

Serve them with a sweet chili sauce and green onions or a spicy sauce like sambal aioli or gochujang mayo.

Tip: Goes well with a side of your favorite sauces, such as gochujang mayo and sambal oelek aioli.

Don't forget to serve them with these Indian dipping sauces!

For modern Asian flavor, use a pandan bao or matcha bun instead, or use 1 of these 10+ bao filling ideas.

If you don't have time to make red curry pork, you can use simple grilled meat and this Gochujang Compound Butter.

This easy recipe is a Vietnamese version of 1 of my favorite Chinese appetizers. If you like shrimp as much as I do, try these Asian prawn recipes!

Potsticker are the perfect finger food for a weekend party with friends- you can make them together before you feast, or make them in advance and freeze them. Pork is the traditional filling but you can make veggie ones for vegan or vegetarian friends too.

Don't forget to serve with gyoza sauce or Chinese jiaozi sauce.

These cream cheese wontons are fried till crispy perfection.

Note: the above recipe is not vegan because it uses LKK sauce- you could always use Chinese mushroom sauce instead if you are on a plant-based diet!

Gluten Free

There are already a few gluten free appetiser recipes on this list (including the onion bhajis above) but click through for more nachos and dips GF recipes for Super Bowl as well as some gluten free Super Bowl appetisers.

Note: only some of the recipes and not the entire lists are gluten-free!

Sugar Free Sweets

If you've over-indulged in the savoury Asian snacks above, these desserts which don't use any sugar will make sure your holiday isn't ruined by guilt!

For even healthier desserts, click here for no sugar no flour treats!

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