When it comes to imitation crab, Western consumers unfamiliar with the ingredient tend to have a lot of common questions.

Last week, the kamaboko association issued a statement ... Everyone knows it is not real crab meat, but no one complains about that anymore. It was born out of efforts to develop an equivalent ...

Point in case it is hotly desired in Japan. In Japan, imitation crab (or kamaboko) is primarily viewed as its own discrete type of street food rather than a substitute for real crab. At Tokyo's ...