Why is seafood so popular in East Asia, and why is eating live seafood mostly concentrated in East Asia as well?
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The cuisine of an area can always be traced back what foods were most available there. Seafood is a staple in places where there was historically plenty of access to fresh seafood.
Modern methods of keeping food fresh has allowed people across the globe to change up their diets and experiment with new things and foreign recipes, but people tend to favor what they grew up eating, and continue to use recipes that have been handed down through generations.
This is why Chinese-American cuisine is not the same as you’d find in China. The menu is modified to suit American tastes. (More cheese!)
It’s why Italian-American cuisine isn’t the same as you’d find in Italy. Our Italian immigrants couldn’t find certain ingredients that were common it Italy, so they substituted with things they could find here, creating new (but similar) dishes that we’re very attached to today.
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