Kusaya is a salted, dried and fermented fish that is produced in the Izu Islands, Japan. It has a pungent smell and is similar to the fermented Swedish herring surströmming.
In Japan, it is customary to serve alcoholic drinks with snacks called sakana, shukō, or otsumami. These are usually quite salty and served in relatively small portions. Sakana are usually more substa
Kusaya
…List of dried foods Sakana Niijima Fish Processing Co-operative (in Japanese…
Sake and sakana
Example of traditional izakaya menu with sakana listed on tags on the wall