How to pronounce Hakata ramen

Hakata ramen is written 博多ラーメン where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /hakata ɾaːmeɴ/. In plain English letters that is hah-KAH-tah RAH-men, 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 Hakata ramen?

Hakata ramen is a noodle dish of Japan. Where it comes from: Fukuoka. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and late at night. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and pork. It tastes savory and rich.

Where Hakata ramen comes from

Hakata ramen is one of 65 signature dishes of Japan on this map. See all dishes from Fukuoka.

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  Motsunabe is a hot pot of beef or pork offal, mainly small intestine, that is best known in Fukuoka.

• Karashi mentaiko 辛子明太子 · Snack · Fukuoka

  Karashi mentaiko is pollock roe cured with chilli, and it is closely tied to Fukuoka's Hakata district.

• 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 Hakata ramen in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Hakata ramen:

• Gogi-guksu 고기국수 · Noodles & pasta · Jeju, South Korea

  Gogi-guksu means "meat noodles": wheat noodles in a broth of pork and pork bones seasoned only with salt, topped with slices of boiled pork and chives.

• 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.

• La Paz batchoy batsoy · Noodles & pasta · Iloilo, Philippines

  Batchoy, also spelled batsoy, is a noodle soup of pork offal, crushed pork cracklings, chicken stock, beef loin and round noodles.

• 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.