Simple and delicious home cooked recipes for crab stick. Crab sticks, also known as surimi, made up 55% of the dish. Crab sticks (imitation crab meat, seafood sticks, krab) are a form of kamaboko, a processed seafood made of starch and finely pulverized white fish (surimi), shaped and cured to resemble the leg meat of snow crab or Japanese spider crab.