This is moulded, deep fried, fish paste loaf served as part of a Jpanese boiled dinner or snack, as down home as corn beef and cabbage in New England. Chikuwa is a close culinary "relation", a brown tube made from fish paste, pasted onto a stick and grilled over a fire. iT WILL TAKE A FEW DAYS TO DIG YOU UP A RECIPE; IT APPEARS FISH PASTE IN ALL ITS VARIATION,S IS A LITTLE LIKE SOUP HERE; A LOT OF PEOPLE BUY THEM ALREADY MADE AND JUST FIX THEM UP A LITTLE.