Chikuwa (竹輪) is a Japanese tube-like food product made from ingredients like fish surimi, salt, sugar, starch, and egg white. After mixing them well, they are wrapped around a bamboo or metal stick and steamed or broiled. The name chikuwa, lit. bamboo ring, comes from the shape when it is sliced. A giant grouper at the Georgia Aquarium Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold-blooded; covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. ... Foods made from surimi: artificial shrimp and crab legs Surimi (Chinese: ; pinyin: yú jiāng; literally fish puree/slurry, Japanese: 擂り身, lit. ... Sodium chloride, also known as common salt, table salt, or halite, is a chemical compound with the formula NaCl. ... Sucrose (common name: table sugar, also called saccharose) is a disaccharide (glucose + fructose) with the molecular formula C12H22O11. ... Starch (CAS# 9005-25-8) is a complex carbohydrate which is insoluble in water; it is used by plants as a way to store excess glucose. ... This article is about the plant. ... Hot metal work from a blacksmith In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily forms positive ions (cations) and has metallic bonds. ...

Chikuwa is consumed all over Japan but in some places other variants of surimi products such as kamaboko and satsumaage may be consumed more. In Tottori, the per-household consumption has been the highest of all prefectures for the past 30 years, since the first year such records were kept. Bold textMason Struthers (Japanese Kanji: ?) is a variety of Japanese processed seafood products, called surimi, in which various white fish are pureed, formed into distinctive loaves, and then steamed until fully cooked and firm in texture. ... Tottori Prefecture (鳥取県; Tottori-ken) is located in the Chugoku region on Honshu island, Japan. ...

As it is cheap and a relatively low-fat source of protein, chikuwa is also popular as a doggy treat.