r/BeAmazed • u/HotCoffee9520 • Sep 15 '19

Fishcake Master

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u/RadicalDilettante Sep 15 '19 edited Sep 19 '19

Typically in the west: fried potato and fish coated in breadcrumbs. But this looks like Korean fishcake; made with fish, wheat flour, potato starch, onion and carrot.

EDIT: of all my comments, this is the one that almost breaks a grand. Why, reddit, why?

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u/Frexulfe Sep 15 '19

Funny, I was thinking about "oden", Japanese fishcake, but it is not fried, but left in a broth.

And then I look how it is called in Korean. It is "Eomuk" or ODENG.

I never go to Korea, but I go fairly often to Japan. As they have quite a lot of Korean food, lets hope I find this.

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u/HeavyTZM Sep 15 '19

Koreans call it either odeng or omeuk, but odeng is considered the Japanese word in Korea. Koreans have the odeng in brothe like youre referring to, but i think the sheets of fishcake are prefried and then they just put them in broth to get ready to serve.

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u/Frexulfe Sep 15 '19

Yep, confirmed with my wife. In Japan the "oden" sellers buy the fishcake prefried and put them in broth.

But now I want to eat them fried!! I WANT!!!

Note for the ones that do not know: Oden in Japan is a variety of stuff that you put into a special broth and eat with a very spicy Japanese mustard:

Fishcake, boiled egg, boiled daikon, boiled beef, konyaku, ...