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Aoba-style Ramen

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Aoba-style Ramen
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A lineage of soy sauce ramen from Nakano, Tokyo, known for its "double soup" combining meat-based and fish-based soups.

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Main ingredients
pork bones, chicken bones, katsuobushi, sababushi (dried mackerel), niboshi, soy sauce, house-developed noodles combining the qualities of udon and Chinese-style noodles
History and origin
A shop founded in Nakano, Tokyo, in 1996 is said to have devised the "double soup" to achieve both the Japanese-style dashi of Tokyo ramen and the richness of Kyushu ramen. Many shops modeled on its flavor emerged and came to be called "Aoba-inspired."
How it is eaten
It is served as chuka soba in a soy sauce-flavored soup that combines a pork-bone and chicken-bone soup, from which the fat has been separated while keeping its richness, with a strong fish-based Japanese-style soup; tsukemen is also available.

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