Octopus As Food
People of several cultures eat octopus. The arms and sometimes other body parts are prepared in various ways, often varying by species and/or geography. Octopuses are sometimes eaten or prepared alive, a practice that is controversial due to scientific evidence that octopuses experience pain. Dishes by geography Japan Octopus is a common ingredient in Japanese cuisine, including ''sushi'', ''sashimi'', '' karaage'', stew, sour salad, ''takoyaki'' and ''akashiyaki''. Takoyaki is a ball-shaped snack made of a wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special takoyaki pan. It is typically filled with minced or diced octopus, tempura scraps (''tenkasu''), pickled ginger, and green onion. Takoyaki are brushed with takoyaki sauce, similar to Worcestershire sauce, and mayonnaise. The takoyaki is then sprinkled with small strips of laver and shavings of dried bonito. Korea Giant octopus, long arm octopus, and webfoot octopus are common food ingredients in Korean cuisine. In K ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Octopuses In Tsukiji
An octopus (: octopuses or octopodes) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed Mollusca, mollusc of the order (biology), order Octopoda (, ). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. Like other cephalopods, an octopus is symmetry in biology, bilaterally symmetric with two eyes and a cephalopod beak, beaked mouth at the centre point of the eight limbs. An octopus can radically deform its shape, enabling it to squeeze through small gaps. They trail their appendages behind them as they swim. The Siphon (mollusc), siphon is used for aquatic respiration, respiration and aquatic locomotion, locomotion (by jet propulsion#Jet-propelled animals, water jet propulsion). Octopuses have a complex nervous system and excellent sight, and are among the most intelligent and behaviourally diverse invertebrates. Octopuses inhabit various ocean habitats, including coral reefs, pelagic waters, and the seabed; some live in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Worcestershire Sauce
Worcestershire sauce or Worcester sauce (UK: ) is a fermented liquid condiment invented by pharmacists John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins in the city of Worcester in Worcestershire, England, during the first half of the 19th century. The inventors went on to form the company Lea & Perrins. Worcestershire sauce has been a generic term since 1876, when the High Court of Justice ruled that Lea & Perrins did not own a trademark for the name "Worcestershire". Worcestershire sauce is used directly as a condiment on steaks, hamburgers, and other finished dishes, and to flavour cocktails such as the Bloody Mary and Caesar. It is also frequently used to augment recipes such as Welsh rarebit, Caesar salad, Oysters Kirkpatrick, and devilled eggs. As both a background flavour and a source of umami (savoury), it is also added to dishes such as beef stew and baked beans. History Fish-based fermented sauces, such as garum, date back to antiquity. In the seventeenth centur ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Republic Of The Maldives
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an archipelagic country in South Asia located in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about from the Asian continent's mainland. The Maldives' chain of 26 atolls stretches across the equator from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to Addu Atoll in the south. The Maldives is the smallest country in Asia. Its land area is only , but this is spread over roughly of the sea, making it one of the world's most spatially dispersed sovereign states. With a population of 515,132 in the 2022 census, it is the second least populous country in Asia and the ninth-smallest country by area, but also one of the most densely populated countries. The Maldives has an average ground-level elevation of above sea level, and a highest natural point of only , making it the world's lowest-lying country. Some sources state the highest point, Mount Villingili, as ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Miruhulee Boava
Miruhulee boava is a Maldivian delicacy made of octopus tentacles braised in curry leaves, chili, garlic, cloves, onion, pepper, and coconut oil. See also * List of seafood dishes This is a list of notable seafood dishes. Seafood dishes are food dishes which use seafood (fish, shellfish or seaweed) as primary ingredients, and are ready to be served or eaten with any needed preparation or cooking completed. Many fish or ... * References Maldivian curries Octopus dishes {{maldives-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Nakji Bokkeum
''Nakji-bokkeum'' * () or stir-fried octopus is a popular dish in Korea that is relatively recent, with origins dating back only two centuries and first being introduced in the early 1960s. History While nakji bokkeum is a more modern dish only originating in the 1960s, it is a fairly simple and unassuming dish that feels like it is timeless and far older. The roots of its origins date back to the 19th century wherein octopus was mostly consumed either raw, dried, or pan-fried. Dishes such as nakjisukhoe (leached octopus) and nakjibaeksuk (boiled octopus) were served during the early 20th century. During this time, octopus began to be consumed more frequently due to traditionally perceived health benefits, some of which have been confirmed with modern nutritional science due to octopus being a lower calorie protein and micronutrient source. Other dishes with octopus were also developed from this trend such as yeonpotang (pellucid octopus soup) and nakji-bibimbap (mixed rice ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Sannakji
''San-nakji'' () is a variety of '' hoe'' (raw dish) made with long arm octopus (''Octopus minor''), a small octopus species called ''nakji'' in Korean and is sometimes translated into "baby octopus" due to its relatively small size compared to the giant octopus (''Enteroctopus dofleini''). The octopus is most commonly killed before being cut into small pieces and served, with the nerve activity in the octopus's tentacles making the pieces move posthumously on the plate while served. The octopus's highly complex nervous system, with two-thirds of its neurons localised in the nerve cords of its arms, lets the octopus show a variety of reflex actions that persist even when they have no input from the brain. Less commonly, a live octopus is eaten whole. The dish is sprinkled with sesame oil and toasted sesame seeds. Language difference Vocabularies in the two Koreas differ on ''nakji'': South Koreans call ''Octopus minor'', a small kind of octopus (often mistranslated as "baby oc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Korean Cuisine
Korean cuisine is the set of foods and culinary styles which are associated with Korean culture. This cuisine has evolved through centuries of social and political change. Originating from ancient Prehistoric Korea, agricultural and nomadic traditions in Korea and southern Manchuria, Korean cuisine reflects a complex interaction of the natural environment and different cultural trends. Korean cuisine is largely based on rice, vegetables, seafood and (at least in South Korea) meats. Dairy is largely absent from the traditional Korean diet. Traditional Korean meals are named for the number of side dishes () that accompany steaming, steam-cooked short-grain rice. Kimchi is served at nearly every meal. Commonly used ingredients include sesame oil, (fermented bean paste), Korean soy sauce, soy sauce, salt, garlic, ginger, (chili pepper, pepper flakes), (fermented red chili paste) and napa cabbage. Ingredients and dishes vary by province. Many regional dishes have become nat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Amphioctopus Fangsiao
''Amphioctopus fangsiao'', called webfoot octopus, is a species of octopus, a cephalopod belonging to the genus '' Amphioctopus''. It is found in the Pacific Ocean, including off the coasts of New Zealand as well as in the Yellow Sea and surrounding Chinese shores. It is also commercially fished. Individuals of ''A. fangsiao'' that share genetic similarities by region are distributed throughout the Yellow Sea by size. They can also be infected by parasites in genus '' Aggregata'' and ''Octopicola.'' Name The Chinese name for this octopus is ''fanshao'' (飯蛸), meaning "rice octopus", because its eggs resemble grains of rice. The binomial name ''Amphioctopus fangsiao'' is derived from the Chinese name. Distribution This species occurs in the Philippine Sea, the northwest Pacific and off the coast of Japan ( Osaka Bay). The lifespan of this species is approximately a year, typically spawning in the spring and growing linearly after spawning. In Haizhou Bay in the Yellow ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Octopus Minor
''Octopus minor'' (more strictly ''Callistoctopus minor''), also known as the long arm octopus or the Korean common octopus, is a small-bodied octopus species distributed along the Benthic zone, benthic coastal waters bordering China, Japan, and the Korea, Korean Peninsula. It lives at depths ranging from the sea surface to . ''O. minor'' is commonly found in the mudflats of Neritic zone, sub-tidal zones where it is exposed to significant environmental variation. It is grouped within the class Cephalopoda along with squids and cuttlefish. ''O. minor'' carries cultural and economic value in the countries in which it is found. It is important commercially to the fishing communities in Korea, where it is known as ''nakji'', and contributes to the $35 million octopus industry. It is a Korean seafood, commonly referred to as ''nakji'' (). The octopus is served both cooked and raw, and is often a snack during sporting events. There have been multiple findings concerning the physiologica ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Enteroctopus Dofleini
The giant Pacific octopus (''Enteroctopus dofleini''), also known as the North Pacific giant octopus, is a large marine cephalopod belonging to the genus '' Enteroctopus'' and Enteroctopodidae family. Its spatial distribution encompasses much of the coastal North Pacific, from the Mexican state of Baja California, north along the United States' West Coast (California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, including the Aleutian Islands), and British Columbia, Canada; across the northern Pacific to the Russian Far East (Kamchatka, Sea of Okhotsk), south to the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, the Sea of Japan, Japan's Pacific east coast, and around the Korean Peninsula. It can be found from the intertidal zone down to , and is best-adapted to colder, oxygen- and nutrient-rich waters. It is the largest octopus species on earth and can often be found in aquariums and research facilities in addition to the ocean. ''E. dofleini'' play an important role in maintaining the health and biodivers ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Muneo-sukhoe
''Hoe'' (; ) is a Korean seafood dish that is eaten by trimming raw meat or raw fish. In addition to fish, it is also made with other marine products such as shrimp and squid, raw meat of land animals, and vegetable ingredients, but without any special prefix, it mainly refers to raw fish. Varieties There are uncooked ''hoe'' () as well as blanched ''sukhoe'' (). Raw ''Hoe'' (), the raw fish or meat dish, can be divided into ''saengseon-hoe'' (), filleted raw fish, and ''yukhoe'' (), sliced raw meat. ''Saengseon-hoe'' () can be either ''hwareo-hoe'' () made from freshly killed fish, or ''seoneo-hoe'' () made using aged fish. ''Mulhoe'' () is a cold raw fish soup. Blanched ''Sukhoe'' () is a blanched fish, seafood, meat, or vegetable dish. ''Ganghoe'' () is a dish of rolled and tied ribbons made with blanched vegetables such as water dropworts and scallions. ''Khe'' There is a variant of the dish in Sakhalin Korean cuisine called ''khe''. One reported version of t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Bonito
Bonitos are a tribe of medium-sized, ray-finned, predatory fish in the family Scombridae, which it shares with the mackerel, tuna, and Spanish mackerel tribes, and also the butterfly kingfish. Also called the tribe Sardini, it consists of eight species across four genera; three of those four genera are monotypic, having a single species each. Bonitos closely resemble the skipjack tuna, which is often called a bonito, especially in Japanese contexts. Etymology The fish's name comes from the Portuguese and Spanish ''bonito'' (no evidence has been found for the origin of the name), identical to the adjective meaning "pretty", but the noun referring to the fish seems to come from the low and medieval Latin form ''boniton'', a word with a strange structure and an obscure origin, related to the word ''byza'', a possible borrowing from the Greek βῦζα, "owl".''Oxford English Dictionary'', 3rd edition, 2018''s.v.''/ref> Species * Genus '' Sarda'' ( Cuvier, 1832) ** Austra ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |