How to pronounce Iekei ramen

Iekei ramen is written 家系ラーメン where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ieke ɾaːmeɴ/. In plain English letters that is ee-EH-keh 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 Iekei ramen?

Iekei ramen is a noodle dish of Japan. Where it comes from: Yokohama, Kanagawa. 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 Iekei ramen comes from

Iekei ramen is one of 65 signature dishes of Japan on this map.

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• 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

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• 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.

• Jingisukan ジンギスカン · Main dish · Hokkaido

  Jingisukan, named after Genghis Khan, is grilled mutton or lamb cooked on a dome-shaped iron pan.

• Ishikari nabe 石狩鍋 · Soup & stew · Ishikari, Hokkaido

  Ishikari-nabe is a Hokkaido hot pot of fresh salmon simmered in a miso broth.

Food of Japan

Dishes like Iekei ramen in other countries

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

• 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.

• 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.