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Yakisoba

, literally "fried noodles", is a dish often sold at festivals in Japan, but originates from China

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
. The dish was derived by the Chinese from the traditional chow mein
Chow mein

Chow mein is a generic Chinese language term for a dish of stir frying noodles, of which there are many varieties. The term chow mein is derived from the Taishan dialect of Chinese ....
, but has been more heavily integrated into Japanese cuisine

Japanese cuisine

Japanese cuisine has developed over the centuries as a result of many political and social changes. The cuisine eventually changed with the advent of the Medieval age which ushered in a shedding of elitism with the age of Shogun rule....
like ramen
Ramen

is a Japanese cuisine noodle dish that originated in China. It tends to be served in a meat-based broth, and uses toppings such as , , kamaboko, green onions, and even corn....
. Even though soba

Soba

File:Preparing Soba 06 cutting.jpg is a type of thin Japanese cuisine noodle made from buckwheat flour. It is served either chilled with a dipping sauce, or in hot broth as a noodle soup....
is part of the word, yakisoba noodles are not made from buckwheat

Buckwheat

Buckwheat refers to plants in two genera of the dicot family Polygonaceae: the Eurasian genus Fagopyrum, and the North American genus Eriogonum....
, but are similar to ramen
Ramen

is a Japanese cuisine noodle dish that originated in China. It tends to be served in a meat-based broth, and uses toppings such as , , kamaboko, green onions, and even corn....
noodles and made from wheat

Wheat

Wheat , is a worldwide cultivated Poaceae from the Levant region of the Middle East. Globally, after maize, wheat is the second most-produced food among the cereal just above rice....
flour

Flour

Flour is a powder made of cereal grains. It is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many civilizations, making the availability of adequate supplies of flour a major economic and political issue at various times throughout history....
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Yakisoba usually refers to sosu yakisoba, flavored with yakisoba sauce

Worcestershire sauce

Worcestershire sauce is a fermentation liquid condiment first made at 68 Broad Street, Worcester by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins....
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It is prepared by stir-frying ramen

Ramen

is a Japanese cuisine noodle dish that originated in China. It tends to be served in a meat-based broth, and uses toppings such as , , kamaboko, green onions, and even corn....
-style noodles with bite-sized pork

Pork

Pork is the culinary name for meat from the domestic pig . The word, pork, is often meant to denote specifically the fresh meat of the pig, but it can be used as an all-inclusive term, to include cured, smoked, or processed meats It is one of the most-commonly consumed meats worldwide, with evidence of pig animal husbandry dating back...
, vegetables (usually cabbage

Cabbage

The cabbage is a leafy garden plant of the Family Brassicaceae , used as a Leaf vegetable. It is a herbaceous, biennial plant, dicotyledonous flowering plant distinguished by a short stem upon which is crowded a mass of leaves, usually green but in some varieties red or purplish, forming a characteristic compact, globular cluster ....
, onion

Onion

Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa....
s or carrot

Carrot

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, literally "fried noodles", is a dish often sold at festivals in Japan, but originates from China

China

Japanese cuisine

Soba

Buckwheat

Wheat

Wheat , is a worldwide cultivated Poaceae from the Levant region of the Middle East. Globally, after maize, wheat is the second most-produced food among the cereal just above rice....
flour

Flour

Worcestershire sauce

Ramen

Pork

Cabbage

Onion

Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa....
s or carrot

Carrot

The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange or white, or red-white blend in colour, with a crisp texture when fresh. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot....
s) and flavoured with yakisoba sauce, salt and pepper. It is served with a multitude of garnishes, such as aonori
Aonori

Aonori or green laver is a type of edible green seaweed, including species from the genera Monostroma and Enteromorpha of Ulvaceae....
(seaweed powder), beni shoga
Beni shoga

Beni shoga is a type of tsukemono . It is made from ginger cut into thin strips, coloured red, and pickled in umezu , the pickling solution used to make umeboshi; the red colour is derived from red perilla....
(shredded pickled ginger), katsuobushi
Katsuobushi

is the Japanese language name for a preparation of dried, Fermentation , and smoked skipjack tuna . Katsuobushi and kombu are the main ingredients of dashi, a broth that forms the basis of many soups and sauces in Japanese cuisine....
(fish flakes), and Japanese mayonnaise.

Yakisoba is most familiarly served on a plate either as a main dish or a side dish. Another popular way to prepare and serve yakisoba in Japan is to pile the noodles into a bun sliced down the middle in the style of a hot dog

Hot dog

A hot dog is a type of fully cooked, curing and/or Smoking moist sausage of soft, even texture and flavor. It is usually placed hot in a soft, sliced hot dog bun of approximately the same length as the sausage, and optionally garnished with condiments and toppings....
, and garnish the top with mayonnaise and shreds of pickled ginger. Called yakisoba-pan, pan meaning bread
Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared by baking a dough of flour and water. It may be leavened or unleavened. Edible salt, fat and a leavening agent such as yeast are common ingredients, though bread may contain a range of other ingredients: milk, Egg , sugar, spice, fruit , vegetables , Nut or seeds ....
, it is commonly available at local matsuri (Japanese festivals

Japanese festivals

Japanese festivals are traditional festive occasions. Some festivals have their roots in Traditional Chinese holidayss but have undergone dramatic changes as they mixed with local customs.These Japanese festival has deep root in Nepal.Concept of these festivals transported to China from Nepal then from China to Japan....
) or conbini (convenience store

Convenience store

A convenience store is a small store or shop that sells candy, ice-cream, soft drinks, lottery tickets, newspapers and magazines, along with a small selection of food and grocery supplies....
s).

Sometimes, Japanese white Udon
Udon

is a type of thick wheat-flour noodle popular in Japanese cuisine.Udon is usually served hot as noodle soup in a mildly flavoured broth, in its simplest form as kake udon, served in kakejiru made of dashi, soy sauce , and mirin....
is used as a replacement of Chinese style Soba and called Yakiudon. This variation was started in Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture

Fukuoka Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on Kyushu Island. The capital is the city of Fukuoka, Fukuoka....
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Yakisoba is served widely across military bases around the world, and daily at Camp Hansen

Camp Hansen

Camp Hansen is a United States Marine Corps base located in Okinawa, Japan. The camp is situated in the town of Kin, Okinawa, near the northern shore of Kin Bay, and is the second-northernmost major installation on Okinawa, with Camp Schwab to the north....
, a Marine Corps

Marine corps

Marines are military forces optimised for operations at sea. Historically marine forces are part of a navy. However, in some countries the marine force is under independent command....
base in Okinawa, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
and weekly at Kunsan AB, an airbase in the Republic of Korea. It has become a favored dish among the U.S. Military across the world.

Instant yakisoba

Instant yakisoba, such as "UFO", is commonly sold in Japanese supermarkets. It can be prepared simply by adding boiling water.

The Sapporo Ichiban

Sapporo Ichiban

is a brand of instant noodles made by Sanyo Foods in Garden Grove, California and rivals to other Japanese ramen brands like Nissin Foods and Maruchan....
ramen company has long made a variety of instant "yakisoba," which is composed of dehydrated ramen noodles, dried seaweed and a flavor pack which resembles the sauce on real yakisoba. The noodles are rehydrated like regular ramen, then stir fried with the flavor packet, shredded japanese cabbage and meat and served with the seaweed sprinkled on top. There is also now a variety of this instant yakisoba available in the US made by Maruchan

Maruchan

is a brand of instant noodles and is a division of Toyo Suisan, a Japanese conglomerate. The name translates from Japanese language into English language as "little circle." They can be found in a packaged form to be cooked on a stove, in a cup to which boiled water is added, or can be microwaved....
, a popular instant ramen company. The dish features dehydrated vegetables such as carrots, corn

Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
, onions, and cabbage, as well as dehydrated instant ramen.

Also, the company Nissin sells yakisoba in Germany. It is called "Yakisoba Deluxe". The composition is similar to the instant ramen of Sapporo Ichiban

Sapporo Ichiban

is a brand of instant noodles made by Sanyo Foods in Garden Grove, California and rivals to other Japanese ramen brands like Nissin Foods and Maruchan....
. It gets prepared by putting 250ml water in a frying pan, boiling it and adding the noodles and vegetables (both dehydrated). Then, let the noodles soften for a minute or two, and add the sauce (which is not dehydrated), then cooking it until there's no more fluid left.

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with oyster sauce
Oyster sauce

Oyster sauce is a viscous dark brown sauce commonly used in Chinese cuisine, Filipino cuisine, Thai cuisine and Khmer cuisine. It is especially common in Cantonese cuisine....
and nori
Nori

is the Japanese name for various edible seaweed species of the red alga Porphyra including most notably P. yezoensis and P. tenera, sometimes called laver ....
, made with thick noodles like udon
Udon

is a type of thick wheat-flour noodle popular in Japanese cuisine.Udon is usually served hot as noodle soup in a mildly flavoured broth, in its simplest form as kake udon, served in kakejiru made of dashi, soy sauce , and mirin....
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Yakisoba

Instant yakisoba

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