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Nagoya Taiwan Ramen

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Nagoya Taiwan Ramen
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A spicy ramen originating in Nagoya, topped with ground meat and garlic chives stir-fried with chili pepper and garlic

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About this dish

Main ingredients
Fairly thin noodles, chicken-bone soy sauce soup, ground meat, chili pepper, garlic, garlic chives, bean sprouts
History and origin
It is said to have begun at a Taiwanese restaurant in Imaike, Chikusa Ward, Nagoya, where Guo Mingyou made a spicy version based on Taiwan's danzai noodles, reportedly serving it to customers from 1971. It gained attention during the extra-spicy food boom of the late 1980s and spread to shops throughout the city.
How it is eaten
The real pleasure is said to lie in piling plenty of the stir-fried ground meat and garlic chives on the noodles and eating it while enduring the heat, sweat on one's brow.

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