Popular Seafood Dishes in Japan

Whether be it festivals or events or even the Japanese cuisine, you will notice a deep-rooted influence of Chinese discourse and culture. On the other hand, Japan grew a very different and peculiar culture of its own while undergoing a prolonged separation from the mainland of Asia centuries ago.

Interestingly enough, Japanese folks do eat many dishes other than popular seafood dishes or noodles. People of Japan prefer to eat a wide-ranging variety of dishes including the specialties of each locale, region and season. Even they possess a technical, scientific and culinary knowledge of the delicacies.

However, it is obvious that since the country has an oceanic topography across the islands, the tourists won't be able to resist the temptation of popular seafood dishes in Japan. While the seafood consumed by the Japanese people range from shellfish, octopus, squid, crab, lobster, shrimp, whale and seaweed, the ways of cooking the delicacies vary. Thus you can enjoy raw, dried, boiled, grilled, deep fried or steamed varieties of dishes.

Sashimi - one of the Popular Seafood Dishes in Japan

This dish refers to the raw seafood. Varieties of fresh fish, prawn, squid or Octopus are sliced and served with soya sauce and wasabi or ground ginger. You can either eat raw Sashimi or in the form of nigiri zushi, in which case the food is placed on a ball of sushi rice.

Popular sashimis are:

  -   Maguro of Tuna
  -   Toro of Fatty Tuna
  -   Ebi of Prawn
  -   Saba of Mackerel
  -   Ika of Squid
  -   Tako of Octopus

Yakizakana - one of the Popular Seafood Dishes in Japan

Yakizakana literally refers to items of grilled fish. You can try out varieties of fish like Tuna, Prawn and lobster by grilling them. However, we shall suggest you not to miss the hot dish of deep fried mackerel.

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