Fish balls (Chinese: 魚蛋 or 魚丸 and sometimes written as 魚旦 at food stalls; Cantonese IPA: [jʊ₁₁ tɑn₃₅], Jyutping: jyu4 daan2; Mandarin Pinyin: yú dàn) is a common cooked food in southern China and Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, with its origin from the cuisine of the Chaoshan region in eastern Guangdong. As the name suggests, the food is balls made with fish meat that has been finely pulverized. Goumet fish balls are pulverized by hand. Fish balls are a type of food product made from surimi (魚漿). Standard Cantonese is a variant, and is generally considered the prestige dialect of Cantonese Chinese. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... Jyutping (Traditional Chinese: 粵拼; Simplified Chinese: 粤拼; pinyin: yuèpÄ«n; Yale: yuhtpÄ«ng; Jyutping: jyut6ping3; sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. ... Standard Mandarin is the official Chinese spoken language used by the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Singapore. ... Pinyin is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin, where pin means spell(ing) and yin means sound(s)). This article describes the most common variant called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; pinyin: HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme... Alternative meaning: In geology, North China (continent) and South China (continent) were two ancient landmasses that correspond to modern northern and southern China. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... Chiuchow cuisine, Teochew cuisine or Chaozhou cuisine (潮州菜; pinyin: Cháozhōu cài) originates from Chiuchow (now called Chaozhou), a city of China in Guangdong Province, not far from Canton. ... The southeast coast of Guangdong Province is home to the Cháoshàn (潮汕) Teochiu linguistic and cultural region. ... Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; Pinyin: GuÇŽngdōng; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The Guppy, also known as guppie (Poecilia reticulata) is one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species in the world. ... Surimi (擂り身, lit. ...

Nearly all meatballs (pork, beef, fish, etc...) made in Asia differ significantly in texture to their counterparts with European origins. Instead of grinding and forming meats, meat used for making meatballs is pounded. This is also often the case for fillings in steamed dishes. This process is what lends a smooth texture to the meatballs. Pounding unlike grinding uncoils and stretches previously wound and tangled protein strands in meat.

Hong Kong

Steamed rice roll with fish ball.

There are two kinds of fish balls in Hong Kong. One is smaller in size, yellow in colour, usually made with cheaper shark meat, and is sold in "strings" (串), each "string" containing five to seven fish balls "strung" on a bamboo skewer. Usually sold at food stalls, each skewer costs between five to seven HKD, depending on the area where it is sold. There are many stalls which support themselves just by selling this kind of fish ball, similar to hot dog stands in the United States. The fish balls can be either spicy (often called curry fish ball, though it is doubtful whether curry is used to make the spicy sauce) or not, at the same price. It is often eaten with steamed rice roll (豬腸粉), another common Hong Kong food. It is one of the most popular and representative "street foods" (街頭熟食) of Hong Kong. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 435 KB) Steamed vermicelli roll with fish ball. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 435 KB) Steamed vermicelli roll with fish ball. ... This article needs additional references or sources. ... Diversity Around 91 genera and 1,000 species Subtribes Arthrostylidiinae Arundinariinae Bambusinae Chusqueinae Guaduinae Melocanninae Nastinae Racemobambodinae Shibataeinae See the full Taxonomy of the Bambuseae. ... A skewer is also a tactic in chess. ... The Hong Kong Dollar (ISO 4217: HKD) is the official currency of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) within the Peoples Republic of China. ... A large hot dog with ketchup A hot dog is a type of cooked, cured and often smoked sausage of even texture and flavor that is softer and more moist than most sausages, and the sausage most readily eaten as finger food, especially in the United States. ... External links Wikibooks Cookbook has more about this subject: Spice Food Bacteria-Spice Survey Shows Why Some Cultures Like It Hot Citat: ...Garlic, onion, allspice and oregano, for example, were found to be the best all-around bacteria killers (they kill everything). ... An Indian chicken curry A curry is any of a great variety of distinctively spiced dishes, best-known in Indian and Thai cuisine, but curry has been adopted into all of the mainstream cuisines of the Asia-Pacific area. ...

The other kind is bigger in size, white in colour, made with more costly fish meat, and has a considerably different texture and taste. This kind of fish ball is usually eaten with noodles at restaurants providing Chiuchow-style noodle , and at some cha chaan tengs (lit. tea restaurant), which also provide beef ball (牛丸) and cuttlefish ball (墨魚丸). A bowl of noodle with this kind of fish ball costs $10 to 20. Readily available in traditional market and supermarket, the fish ball is also a popular ingredient for hot pot. ... Taste is one of the most common and fundamental of the senses of animals. ... A chef making hand-pulled noodles. ... Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ... Chiuchow cuisine, Teochew cuisine or Chaozhou cuisine (潮州菜; pinyin: Cháozhōu cài) originates from Chiuchow (now called Chaozhou), a city of China in Guangdong Province, not far from Canton. ... A chef making hand-pulled noodles. ... The cha chaan teng ( tea restaurant) is a kind of restaurant commonly found in Hong Kong, famous for its eclectic menus which include a lot of localised non-Chinese dishes. ... The Hong Kong dollar (currency code HKD) is the currency of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China, and has been the currency of Hong Kong since 1937. ... Exterior appearance of typical American supermarket (a Safeway) A supermarket or grocery store is a store that sells a wide variety of food. ... Hot pot with grill surrounding it. ...

In outdated Hong Kong slang, the term "fish ball girlies" (魚蛋妹) means young prostitutes, usually under the age of 18; and the brothel where these girls work is thus called "fish ball stall" (魚蛋檔). The etymology may be that the action of "stringing" fish balls (拮魚蛋 in Cantonese) resembles that of masturbation (in general, the "fish ball stalls" are not designed for sexual intercourse: the clients can only caress the prostitutes and receive masturbation). Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... It has been suggested that Mega-brothel be merged into this article or section. ... Etymology is the study of the origins of words. ... // Masturbation is the manual excitation of the sexual organs, most often to the point of orgasm. ... Coition of a Hemisected Man and Woman (c. ...

Taiwan

Teochiu and Singapore

Philippines

The most commonly eaten type of fish balls is (unsurprisingly) colloquially known as fishballs . It is somewhat flat in shape and most often made from the meat of cuttlefish or pollock. It is usually served with a sweet and spicy sauce or with a thick black sweet and sour sauce. It is a common snack food that is sold by mobile fryer stands and street corner food courts in many towns and cities. Families Sepiadariidae Sepiidae Cuttlefish are animals of the order Sepiida, and are marine cephalopods, small relatives of squids and nautilus. ... This article is about the marine fish pollock, for other uses, see Pollock, Texas, Jackson Pollock, Pollock House and Pollock (movie). ...

Fish balls in the Philippines are sold by street vendors pushing mobile deep frying carts. They are usually served with a choice of three kinds of dipping sauces: Sour (pale orange colored) - vinegar, water, diced onions and garlic, Sweet (brown gravy colored) - corn starch, banana catsup, sugar and salt, and Hot/Sour (amber or deeper orange colored) - the sour variety with lots of small hot chilis added. Dark sauces are rare as these are soy sauce based and soy sauce is expensive in terms of food cost for street food. The latest (2006) iteration in the Philippine fishball industry is the introduction of 'ball' varieties: chicken, squid (cuttlefish actually), and kekiam. The last are lowcost renditions vaguely resembling original Chinese delicacy of the same (soundwise) name. Chicken and squid balls as well as kekiam sell at 4 US Cents. Regular fishballs sell at 1 US Cent.

External links

Fish Ball Manufacturer in Hong Kong

• Cheong Kee Special Food Product Ltd.(香港昌記魚旦) website