Chikuwa + Fish cake

Chikuwa and fish cake pair classically — they're cooked together often and share aroma chemistry, so the combination is both familiar and chemically coherent. Both sit inside the "East Asian umami pantry staples" mode.

Pairing scores

Cooks withstrong signal

0.31

Tastes likestrong signal

0.45

Blendedstrong signal

0.72

What do these scores mean?

Cooks-with (technical name: Cooc) measures how often the two ingredients appear in the same dish across 4M recipes. Tastes-like (Chem) measures how much aroma chemistry they share via FlavorDB. Blended (Core) combines both. All are cosine similarities in 300-D space — practical ranges differ per axis, so see the per-row context to read them.

Good additions to this pair

Ingredients that go well with both chikuwa and fish cake — candidates for completing the dish.

Garland chrysanthemum0.32 Udon noodle0.32 Wakame0.31 Bonito flakes0.30 Sukiyaki sauce0.29 Fish ball0.29 Okonomiyaki sauce0.29 Natto0.28

How this is ranked

Each candidate scores against both ingredients in the recipe co-occurrence embedding. We sort by the worse of the two scores, so the result fits the weaker partner — not just one of them.

Shared flavor modes

Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.

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