Articles of category "Eel"

As Japan is an island nation, its people tend to eat much seafood, including fish, shellfish, squid, octopus, crabs, lobsters, shrimp and seaweed. Although not known as a meat eating country, very few Japanese consider themselves vegetarians. While beef and chicken have become common dishes and a part of everyday cuisine in Japan, seafood still stands for the major position in the Japanese cuisine.

Eel seafood comprises a variety of fish species, thus, eel, eaten in Europe, is different from that, eaten in Japan or in the USA. It is also subdivided into fresh water eels and marine eels. Methods of eel seafood preparation also vary along with the national cuisines of the countries, where eel seafood is popular, particularly, in European, American, Japanese, Shanghai and Cantonese cooking. Japan is probably one of the countries, consuming more eels all over the world.