fishball

English

Fishballs and other seafood balls ready to be skewered or eaten with other food

Fried fishballs, usually served on a skewer as streetfood in the Philippines

Alternative forms

• fish ball, fish-ball

Etymology

fish +‎ ball

Noun

fishball (plural fishballs)

1. A food item made from pulverized fish shaped into a ball, popular in Chinese and Scandinavian cuisine and elsewhere around the world.
   • 2005, Jae W. Park, editor, Surimi and Surimi Seafood, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 388:

     In Singapore, the most popular surimi-based product is the fish ball, which is used in a local application, Yong Tau Foo.

Descendants

• → Tagalog: pisbol

Translations

pulverized fish shaped into a ball

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 魚蛋／鱼蛋 (jyu⁴ daan^6-2), 魚丸／鱼丸 (jyu⁴ jyun^4-2)

  Hakka: 魚丸／鱼丸 (ǹg-yèn)

  Hokkien: 魚丸／鱼丸 (zh-min-nan) (hî-oân, hû-oân)

  Mandarin: 魚丸／鱼丸 (zh) (yúwán)

• Danish: fiskebolle c
• Finnish: kalapulla (fi)
• Indonesian: bakso ikan
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: bola ikan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fiskeboll

• Russian: ры́бный ша́рик m (rýbnyj šárik)
• Spanish: bola de pescado f
• Swedish: fiskbulle (sv) c
• Tagalog: pisbol
• Thai: ลูกชิ้น (th) (lôok chín)
• Turkish: balık köftesi
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• fishcake
• meatball
• squidball
• shrimpball / prawn ball
• crabstick
• kikiam
• takoyaki