Chikuwa for real
My error was pointed out to me today. When I wrote about chikuwa recently, I may well have used the wrong name. In truth, this little sausage you see in the picture is chikuwa. Hollow white and slightly chewy, it has a sort of grilled appearance down the middle that doesn’t look entirely genuine.
Tonight I ate it in Ramen soup and it went down very well. My only problem now is what to call the other sausage that I called chikuwa in the last post?
The stuff in your previous post is a kind of kamaboko called naruto, named after the Naruto Whirlpool because it has that little red spiral going through it.
I don’t know WHY it has the little spiral in it, though… maybe, when it was originally produced, it was rolled? Maybe just to make it look more interesting?
naruto is usually floated in some type of soup or laid across Chirashizushi (non-rolled sushi served in a bowl)