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.
When you put chikuwabu in oden, it absorbs the broth and becomes delicious.
Chikuwa is a tube-shaped fish cake, while chikuwabu is a wheat-based food with a similar shape.
Fu is a general term for wheat gluten cakes; chikuwabu is a specific tube-shaped variety.
Standard kanji spelling for this food item.
Simplified variant using hiragana for the second part.
Rare variant using a different kanji for 'fu'.
Compound of 竹輪 (chikuwa, 'tube-shaped fish cake') and 麩 (fu, 'wheat gluten'), referring to its tube-like shape and wheat-based composition.