Have you eaten ramen at the ramen restaurant? What kind of ramen do you like? I often eat ramen at the lunch time so that you can eat without spending too much time and it will be served quite quickly after ordering.
There are so many variations of ramen in Japan not only the different flavors but also the thickness of the noodle or the hardness of the noodle. Even you can choose the types of noodle like the curly noodle or straight noodle.
I am going to share some variety flavored ramens today.
Soy sauce flavored Ramen
I guess the soy sauce flavor is most famous around the world. Actually when I was young I used to order the soy sauce taste ramen every time I went to the ramen restaurant. You could say it’s the traditional ramen that is the soy sauce taste.
However there are so many types of soy sauce ramen here.
The first picture you can see that is the most typical soy sauce ramen. And the second picture you can see next that is particular about the soup I guess.
The next picture of many roasted pork fillets is from the so famous restaurant “Ramen Daisensou ラーメン大戦争” in Japan that many people need to wait in long line. It looks very simple but the noodles are chewy and the soup is delicious! For the first bite you can find out the aroma of the roasted wheat from the noodle and you can taste the rich clam broth in the soup.
It has been popular these days to put some fresh onions for the topping. The fresh onions give you some crispy texture in the rich ramen.
Salt flavored Ramen
The salt flavored ramen is also very traditional. Usually it’s light and plainly based broth.
Miso flavored Ramen
Miso is the fermented soy beans and it’s used for miso soup in Japan. We often use miso for home cooking.
There are also some regional ramens in Japan, for example Sapporo is famous for Miso flavored ramen with butter corn! Sounds delicious! Sapporo is the city is located in north in Japan and there are so many famous foods there like sushi, dairy products and ramen especially miso flavored ramen. Miso ramen goes well with rice so much!
The next picture is from the famous ramen restaurant in Sapporo “Yoshiyama shouten 吉山商店”. The miso soup is full of sesame aroma and the roasted pork is juicy and tender!
Fish and pork bone flavored Ramen
This ramen is what I love the most. I recommend you to try it once when you visit Japan. The soup is so rich and thick, in addition the stewed soup used seafood, pork bone and chicken broth usually. It looks very heavy to eat but it tastes quite plainly thanks to the seafood broth.
Pork bone flavored Ramen
Pork bone flavored ramen is also regional ramen from Hakata 博多. Hakata is located south in Japan. It tastes very rich and creamy so the soup is not clear that you can not look at in the soup. Also you can chose the hardness of the noodles form extra hard, hard, medium, soft, and extra soft. The firmness differs with how long boil the noodles.
鶏白湯 Toripaitan
This is a chicken broth taste soup that is cooked on low heat for a long time and integrate the good flavor into the soup. It brings out the original flavor of ingredients and it’s also very rich and thick. Usually some chicken breast ham on it instead of the roasted pork.
横浜家形 とんこつ醤油 Pork bone soy sauce broth flavor
In the end I am going to share IEKEI ramen. This is a style of ramen that tastes fatty pork bone broth and soy sauce with some dried seaweeds and some boiled spinaches. This is called “IEKEI ramen” in Japan and there are some E.A.K ramen in USA these days.
Summary
I’ve shared some flavored ramen and tyles of ramen today. Which kind of ramen would you like to try? I recommend you to visit several ramen restaurants when you come to Japan so that you can find out the differences each characteristics.
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