Along with water content increasing. the decreasing amount of myofi brillar protein could lead to a lower value for surimi with hy droxyl propyl methylcellulose(Chen& Huang, 2008). Therefore, the surimi paste with a higher oil concentration exhibited the lower G and G" values in Fig. 4. The increase of vegetable oil concentration could not compensate the weakenin effect of reduction of fish protein on the surimi gel network