What kind of fishcake could it be?

Hi! Me and my friends visited Japan last summer. My friend ate some kind of fish cake, which he loved. We can't seem to figure out what it is called, though. It was a small, round cake lying in some kind of yellowish juice. Do you have any suggestions on what it could be?

Was it sold at a food stall, or did you have one at a restaurant? Was it crunchy, hard, soft chewy, or how was it? Was it oily or dry? Was it white? Any "grilled" marks? Was it salty/savory or sweet?

It was sold at a restaurant, and was pretty soft. It was oily.

Salty or sweet? Any filling? Can it be sweet "manju" (dumpling of different kinds) that were being fried in oil? Or was it served floating in a liquid?

It was served soaked in some kind of yellow-like fluid. It was quite small :)

In case it wasn't clear, there are infinite possibilities here, and we'll need a lot more information to help figure it out. While there are a few standards, fish cake can vary a lot and even has regional differences. Do you know where your friend had this dish, or even better, the name of the restaurant?

I don't remember the name of the restaurant, but it was situated on the 10th floor or so of Fukuyama(?) mall in Hiroshima :)

Was it sweet or savory/salty? Was it a dessert? Does your friend know for sure that it was fish? :) Was it at a Japanese cuisine restaurant?

It was a salty, fishey taste. I'm pretty sure it was not a dessert. We don't know for sure if it was a fishcake, bur judging from the taste that would be our guess.

It was a Japanese cuisine restaurant :)

Maybe get him to look up a picture of Satsuma age (although not usually served in a sauce to my knowledge)?

It looked a bit like the Satsuma Age, but not quite. The consistency reminded him of soggy bread. He said that it had an overwhelming taste of fish.

I have a picture of it, but it doesn't work to send it here. Do you have a place where I could send it? Facebook?

You could post it to a free photo-sharing site such as Flckr, and past the link here.

https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/139085140@N03/23542159553/

Looks like Ganmodoki tofu to me, not fish cake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganmodoki

Agree with Uji, looks like ganmodoki rather than some sort of fishcake. I can see how they could be confused though.

Agreed, especially when he described the consistency as like soggy bread. When you bite it the fluid leaks out which sounds awful but it tastes good.

There is no doubt in my mind. It's a ganmodoki.

It's ganmodoki, and probably fu ên on the right and fuki •™

The soup was most likely a good "dashi" which is sophisticated fish stock made from katsubushi (shaved dried fish) and konbu (thick seaweed), seasoned with soy sauce and perhaps mirin.

Ganmodoki itself taste as plain as tofu, so the fishy taste must have come from the good soup that it was soaked in.