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Kitakata ramen

Kitakata, Fukushima

A clear pork and dried-sardine broth seasoned with soy sauce, with wide, flat, curly noodles and plenty of chashu.

Recipes

of 492 in the atlas

Sites

most from dinnerbydennis.com

Languages

English, Japanese

Usual build

3 of 4

parts in the median recipe · 1 have all

Kitakata ramen, by the usual definition

Soy sauce (shoyu)
Pork bone (tonkotsu)
Seafood or dashi (kombu, bonito, niboshi)
Chashu

1 of 5 published recipes have every part; the median recipe has 3 of 4. Where the rest depart: no pork bone (4), no seafood or dashi (2), no chashu (2).

Each recipe against each part of the usual build
Recipe	Soy sauce	Pork bone	Seafood or dashi	Chashu
dinnerbydennis.comKitakata Ramen	●	●	●	●
ramenkaonashi.comKitakata Ramen	●	○	●	●
park.ajinomoto.co.jp喜多方ラーメン風	●	○	●	●
teresasrecipes.comKitakata Ramen	●	○	○	○
recipe.rakuten.co.jp自宅で簡単！野菜たっぷりの喜多方ラーメン	●	○	○	○
Recipes with it	5	1	3	3

● has it · ◐ something else stands in · ○ left out

Everything its recipes use

The share of Kitakata recipes naming each component, by kind, with the share of all ramen bowls as a tick.

Broth base

Chicken60% · 3 · all 40%
Seafood or dashi (kombu, bonito, niboshi)usual60% · 3 · all 20%
Pork bone (tonkotsu)usual20% · 1 · all 8%
Vegetable or mushroom20% · 1 · all 20%

Tare and seasoning

Soy sauce (shoyu)usual100% · 5 · all 74%
Mirin60% · 3 · all 22%
Vinegar20% · 1 · all 20%

Aroma oil

Chicken fat (chiyu)20% · 1 · all 1%
Lard or back fat20% · 1 · all 6%

Noodles

Ramen noodles, kind not stated60% · 3 · all 46%
Homemade noodles (kansui or baking soda)20% · 1 · all 4%
Other noodles (udon, soba, egg, rice, zoodles)20% · 1 · all 4%
Curly or wavy noodles20% · 1 · all <1%

Toppings

Menma (bamboo shoots)80% · 4 · all 12%
Scallion or negi80% · 4 · all 66%
Chashuusual60% · 3 · all 13%
Pork (other cuts)60% · 3 · all 15%
Marinated egg (ajitama)40% · 2 · all 10%
Naruto or kamaboko fish cake40% · 2 · all 3%
Boiled or soft egg20% · 1 · all 44%
Nori20% · 1 · all 16%

How it is served

Served in soup60% · 3 · all 47%

What sets it apart

Naruto or kamaboko fish cake in 2 of 5 recipes (40%), against 3% of all ramen bowls: more than ten times as common.
Menma (bamboo shoots) in 4 of 5 recipes (80%), against 12% of all ramen bowls: 6 times as common.
Chashu in 3 of 5 recipes (60%), against 13% of all ramen bowls: 5 times as common.
Pork (other cuts) in 3 of 5 recipes (60%), against 15% of all ramen bowls: 4 times as common.
Marinated egg (ajitama) in 2 of 5 recipes (40%), against 10% of all ramen bowls: 4 times as common.
Seafood or dashi (kombu, bonito, niboshi) in 3 of 5 recipes (60%), against 20% of all ramen bowls: 3 times as common.

The 5 Kitakata recipes

Each names the style in its title. Beside each, how much of the usual build it has.

Kitakata Ramen · dinnerbydennis.com4 of 4 usual parts
Kitakata Ramen · ramenkaonashi.com3 of 4 usual parts · no pork bone (tonkotsu)
Kitakata Ramen · teresasrecipes.com1 of 4 usual parts · no pork bone (tonkotsu), seafood or dashi (kombu, bonito, niboshi), chashu
喜多方ラーメン風 · park.ajinomoto.co.jp · Japanese3 of 4 usual parts · no pork bone (tonkotsu)
自宅で簡単！野菜たっぷりの喜多方ラーメン · recipe.rakuten.co.jp · Japanese1 of 4 usual parts · no pork bone (tonkotsu), seafood or dashi (kombu, bonito, niboshi), chashu

Plain ramen bowls that look like it

3 recipes that name no style but whose components match Kitakata more than any other style. They are not counted above.

Lucy Wang’s Mini Chashu Ramen · tasteofhome.com2 of 4 usual parts · no pork bone (tonkotsu), seafood or dashi (kombu, bonito, niboshi)
Nagoya's Sugakiya Ramen Copycat · sudachirecipes.com3 of 4 usual parts · no pork bone (tonkotsu)
The BEST Ramen · seonkyounglongest.com4 of 4 usual parts

By what their recipes use more often than ramen bowls in general.