How to Use fish cake in a Sentence

fish cake

noun
  • Pour the rest of the panko on a plate and roll each fish cake in it to coat.
    — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Or the rabokki, an udon noodle dish with fish cakes.
    — Graham Averill, Outside, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The kimchi and thin slices of fish cake give you a break from the savory main dish.
    — Grace Wong, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Rodney’s mother drops by with a plate of homemade fish cakes.
    — NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Start with tender fish cakes, then for a main, a fiery citrus tamarind jerk pork is not to be missed.
    — Kristin Braswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Employees did not know what to do with fish cakes at the four-hour discard time.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado april 10, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The cod’s flesh, meanwhile, becomes fish cakes as fluffy as French quenelles.
    — Fortune, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Combine flaked cod, egg, scallions, and breadcrumbs to make fish cakes.
    — Kirsten Nunez, Martha Stewart, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The fish ball and fish cake are bouncy, without any hint of a gross rubbery texture.
    — Dana Ter, Slate Magazine, 31 July 2017
  • At a dock party last month, Nam’s supporters ate fish cakes and posed for group photos.
    — Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • There are clumps of protein mashed together like a fish cake with a nice, crisp exterior.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Clumps of protein are mashed together like a fish cake with a nice, crisp exterior.
    — Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Atop the cave lies a restaurant serving up local favorites like fish cakes, breadfruit tacos and saltfish salad.
    — Anna Haines, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • According to a comment on the post, Ford ordered papaya salad, pad graprao, pad thai and fish cakes.
    — Robert Philpot, star-telegram, 18 May 2018
  • The dense but yielding fish cakes underscore her love of lemongrass, which doesn’t hide the presence of fresh dill and lime leaves in the ground catfish.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Most student cooks were pretty comfortable chopping peppers and celery and onions for the fish cakes in this, the fifth week of cooking class.
    — Maureen Fitzgerald, Philly.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • From fish cakes to grits, one restaurateur breaks down America's breakfast divide.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • There were frozen vegetables and fruits, links of Laotian sausage and corn dogs stuffed with things like mozzarella and green chilies, and fish cakes, too.
    — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • To make fish cakes, Asuka Uchida forms black cod into spheres, stuffs them with cheese curds and drops them into a light beer batter.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Oden is Japanese soul food—savory bites of vegetables and proteins like tofu and fish cake simmered in dashi soup.
    — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Fishing trips are also on offer and one of our gang goes out to catch dinner, which is made into delicious fish cakes by the lodge’s excellent chef.
    — Lucie Grace, TheWeek, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Toss in sliced fish cake, cabbage, and scallions to cover all of the healthy New Years Resolution bases too.
    — Jakob Polaco, kansascity, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Whereas our kalguksu had come in plain, light broth with short-neck clams (delicious), the sujebi came with fish cakes and was jazzed up with spicy broth (more delicious).
    — Seth Kugel, New York Times, 1 July 2019
  • At the end of any trip home to Penang, Grandma loaded her luggage with frozen fish balls and fish cakes, tropical spices and rice vermicelli.
    — Dana Ter, Slate Magazine, 31 July 2017
  • Everybody should have either a fish cake on a hot cross bun or a Bermudian fish sandwich from Mama Angie's.
    — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Table Talk → From fish cakes to grits, one restaurateur breaks down America's breakfast divide.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Variations include banh canh cua, which is often a thick soup with lumps of crab, and banh canh cha ca, a thinner broth with fish cakes that’s popular in south central Vietnam.
    — Christina Liao, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Besides the fish cakes, the vegetable adds fruity acidity to a wild-tasting mountain lamb entrée consisting of a flat steak, cut from the leg, sliced and fanned around celery root crushed with hazelnuts.
    — Fortune, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Those include a shrimp-cake version of tian bu lah, the skewered, fried and boiled to order fish cake familiar to anyone who has visited Taiwan’s famous night markets.
    — Mrussell, oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The fried fish cakes are springy as ever, and the lemongrass broth, punctuated with shrimp and straw mushrooms, retains its tang; Panngern changed the look, but not the previous owner’s chef.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019

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