How to pronounce Champon

Champon is written ちゃんぽん where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /tɕampoɴ/. In plain English letters that is CHAHM-pon, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Champon?

Champon is a noodle dish of Japan. Where it comes from: Nagasaki. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour, seafood, pork and vegetables. It tastes savory and rich.

Where Champon comes from

Champon is one of 65 signature dishes of Japan on this map. See all dishes from Nagasaki.

• Sara udon 皿うどん · Noodles & pasta · Nagasaki

  Sara udon, plate noodles, is a Nagasaki dish that despite its name is not made with udon.

• Castella カステラ · Dessert · Nagasaki

  Castella is a sponge cake based on cakes brought to Japan by Portuguese merchants in the 16th century, and it was made popular in Nagasaki, where it is still considered a speciality.

• Sushi 寿司 · Main dish · Edo (Tokyo)

  Sushi began as a way to keep fish, not as a fresh delicacy.

• Ramen ラーメン · Noodles & pasta · Tokyo and Yokohama

  Ramen arrived with Chinese cooks.

• Okonomiyaki お好み焼き · Street food · Osaka and Hiroshima

  The name means "grilled as you like it", and that is the whole idea: a batter of wheat flour and shredded cabbage cooked on a hot iron plate with whatever the cook has, then brushed with a thick sweet-savoury sauce, mayonnaise, seaweed flakes and bonito.

• Tempura 天ぷら · Main dish · Edo (Tokyo)

  Deep-frying in batter came to Japan with Portuguese traders and missionaries who reached Nagasaki in the 16th century.

Food of Japan

Dishes like Champon in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Champon:

• Jjajangmyeon 짜장면 · Noodles & pasta · Incheon, South Korea

  Jjajangmyeon is wheat noodles topped with a thick black sauce of chunjang (fried black bean paste), diced pork, onion and other vegetables.

• Zhajiangmian 炸酱面 · Noodles & pasta · Beijing, China

  Zhajiangmian means noodles with fried sauce: thick wheat noodles tossed with zhajiang, a sauce of fermented soybean paste fried in plenty of oil with minced or diced pork.

• Hokkien prawn mee 福建虾面 · Noodles & pasta · Hawker centres, Singapore

  Hokkien mee, "Fujian noodles", is a family of Southeast Asian noodle dishes with roots in the cooking of China's Fujian province, and Singapore has its own version, often called Hokkien prawn mee.

• Agnolotti del plin · Noodles & pasta · Langhe and Monferrato (Piedmont), Italy

  Agnolotti del plin are tiny filled pasta from the Langhe and Monferrato hills of southern Piedmont.