竹ちく輪わ麩ぶ

noun

tube-shaped wheat gluten cake

A Japanese food made from wheat flour, shaped like a tube (similar to chikuwa fish cake), often used in oden.

• おでんにちくわぶを入いれると、だしを吸すっておいしくなる。

  When you put chikuwabu in oden, it absorbs the broth and becomes delicious.