Crab stick

Crab stick

Crab sticks – imitation crab meat surimi.
Alternative names	imitation crab meat, seafood sticks, krab
Place of origin	Japan
Main ingredients	white fish
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Crab sticks, krab sticks, snow legs, imitation crab meat, or seafood sticks are a Japanese seafood product made of surimi (pulverized white fish) and starch, then shaped and cured to resemble the leg meat of snow crab or Japanese spider crab.^[1] It is a product that uses fish meat to imitate shellfish meat.

In Japanese, it is called kanikama (カニカマ), a portmanteau of kani ("crab") and kamaboko ("fish cake"). In the United States, it is often simply called kani.^[2]