Ryukyu

Ryukyu introduction

“Ryukyu” faces the Seto Inland Sea and is blessed with abundant seafood in Oita prefecture, where fresh fish fillets such as horse mackerel, yellowtail, and amberjack are soaked in a sauce that combines soy sauce, sake, mirin, ginger, sesame seeds, etc. It is a local dish to eat. Condiments are often added with green onions and wasabi, but depending on the producer, they differ a lot from each other. It has a trolley texture that is a bit different from sashimi. It penetrated the local area as a kind of preserved food. It is said that the origin of the name is that this cooking method was transmitted from fishermen in “Ryukyu”, or because it was named after “Rikyu sauce (rikyuae),” which is a cooking method to mix sesame seeds.

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• NameRyukyu
• Area Oita
• Kind of food Seafood

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