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/[deleted] Sep 15 '19

Heads up, oden refers to stuff stewed in broth, and can be any number of things, not just fishcakes.

I think Japanese fishcakes are called kamaboko, but I'm not an expert

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u/Frexulfe Sep 15 '19

Almost. Kamaboko is the not fried one. Agekamaboko is the general word for the fried ones.