What kind of seafood is eaten raw in Japanese restaurants

Salmon, tuna, Arctic shellfish, sea cucumber, sea urchin, octopus, squid, cuttlefish, weevil, octopus, red shellfish, scallops and so on.

1, salmon

Salmon is one of the world's most valuable fish. Scales small thorns, meat color orange-red, meat tender and delicious, smooth taste, can be directly eaten raw, but also cooking dishes, is a favorite fish. At the same time, it is made of cod liver oil is a good nutritional product.

2, tuna

Taste fresh tuna has always been Japan, Taiwan's favorite seafood cuisine, especially tuna sashimi is known as sashimi in the best, not only the old diners deep into the taste, and even eat less sashimi people will also choose to eat raw tuna sashimi to feast on a taste. From the tuna species, the quality of sashimi from high to low are bluefin tuna, masu tuna, bigeye tuna and yellowfin tuna. Bluefin tuna and masu tuna have low production and very high prices, and common tuna sashimi is made from bigeye tuna and yellowfin tuna.

3, Arctic shellfish

Arctic shellfish is from the North Atlantic cold deep sea of a shellfish, in the fifty to sixty meters deep seabed slow growth, took twelve years, and thus the formation of a natural unique fresh sweet flavor. Domestic merchants like to remove the shell and leave the bright red foot, sold under the trade name of "Arctic Shell", and advertised as coming from the natural environment of the cold waters of the North Atlantic. Arctic shellfish has a bright color (red, orange, white), delicious flavor, crisp meat and other characteristics, and rich in protein and unsaturated fatty acids (DHA), is the best seafood.

4, sea cucumber

Sea cucumber, belonging to the sea cucumber class (Holothuroidea), is a marine echinoderm living in the seashore to 8,000 meters, more than 600 million years ago, sea cucumbers to the seabed algae and plankton for food. Sea cucumbers are covered with spines and are widely distributed in the world's oceans. There are more species along the coast of South China Sea, about twenty kinds of sea cucumbers are available for consumption. With the popularization of the knowledge of the value of sea cucumber, sea cucumber has gradually entered the table of the people. The living environment determines the quality of sea cucumber.

5, scallops

The scallops, called fresh scallops in the north, are commonly found in two types: one is the so-called long scallops, which is the closed-shell muscle of the shellfish of the family of Jiangyaozhu; the other is the round scallops, which is the closed-shell muscle of the shellfish of the family of scallops. The dried product is Jiang Yaozhu, which is called dried scallop in the north. Scallops in Guangdong, Hainan coastal abundance, is one of the valuable seafood. Its texture is crisp and soft, this product for the Chaoshan, Dongjiang area famous dishes, fresh bamboo shoots and cooked ham strips worn in the middle of the scallops, and then cooked in oil soak method, often as a valuable hot meat and boarded the big table.

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