PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make various kinds of fish paste round into balls and then to press mold them into circular forms by a single machine, in which an automated molding machine molds fish paste into thick-walled or flat molded shapes. SOLUTION: This molding installation has a belt conveyor 2 for conveying food EA molded by an automated molding machine 10, and has on the conveyance passage both an automated ball-forming apparatus 33A for making the food EA round in balls EC and an automated press molding apparatus 33B for press molding the ball-like molded food EC into circular forms.