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)

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

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