Okinawan cuisine

  Despite the spread of Buddhism, Okinawa was less prone to the practice of not eating meat. Okinawans say: "Okinawan cuisine begins with a pig and ends with a pig" and "you can eat everything in a pig except the hooves and the squeal." In addition, seafood is one of the components of Okinawan cuisine. Most often, it is tuna, sea eel, and others. Also common is sea urchin, which is usually eaten raw.
   Raw food is common in Japan and Okinawa because raw seafood contains many nutrients and vitamins that are lost during the heat treatment process. To prevent food poisoning, raw seafood is eaten only if it is fresh. That's why fish is not frozen. The supermarket always sells a lot of seafood (tuna, salmon, eel, crucian carp, other fish, crabs, shrimp, lobsters, squid, octopus, clams, sea snails, etc.) Contemplating all the diversity of the underwater world spread out on the display case, it is safe to say that in the morning it was swimming around and did not know any grief. Despite this, seafood is not as common as pork.