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fish cake

American  
[fish keyk] / ˈfɪʃ ˌkeɪk /
Or fishcake

noun

  1. a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt cod or whitefish, and mashed or grated potato, bread crumbs, or flour.


Etymology

Origin of fish cake

First recorded in 1850–55

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Their feast also consists of hard-boiled eggs, shrimp crackers, cup ramyeon, odeng-guk fish cake soup, sweet hotteok pancakes and naengmyeon, which is served in a stainless steel bowl.

From Salon Jun. 27, 2025

However, no restaurant in my orbit offers a steamed fish cake to rival Jiwa Singapura’s otah.

From Washington Post Apr. 28, 2023

Inside its lightly fried skin the flesh has been minced with shrimp and molded back into its original form: a fish-shaped fish cake.

From New York Times Feb. 28, 2022

Many of these start with a base combination of egg, carrot, pickled radish and rape flowers, with fish cake, kimchi or sesame leaf on top.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2017

Sweet rice cakes with gooey walnut paste next to stalls of fish cake and raw seafood.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

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