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Ramen is a Japanese dish made up of noodles, soy sauce, miso, scallions, sliced pork or beef and fish-based broth. The history of ramen dates back to 1859 according to the Yokohama Ramen Museum when the Japanese adopted the Chinese noodles. Another plausible theory is that the Chinese brought their food to Japan.

Main ingredients

Pork Bones
Chicken Bones
Tonkotsu or Pork bones that are a broth made from boiling pork bone until it releases collagen.
Some herbs and aromatics (Mushroom, garlic, vinegar, oils, scallions, rice wine and ginger)
Tare or Flavouring consisting of Miso (soybean paste), Shio (salt) and Shoyu (soy sauce).

Toppings: Egg, Kakuni (braised pork cubes), kamaboko (steamed & sliced), Chasiu (roasted and braised pork slices), green onions, Menma (fermented bamboo shoots).

Ramen noodle - Made from water, wheat flour, salt and Kansui (alkaline mineral water).

Recipe: 

Recipe-A
6 C water
2 cloves garlic crushed
20 g ginger sliced
1/2 lb 225g ground pork
3-4 green onions
3 "x1" 8x3cm Dried Kombu

Recipe-B
5-6 Tbsp Miso Paste
2 Tbsp Sake
1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
1/2 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp chili bean paste such as Tobanjan or any chili paste

Recipe-C
2 Tbsp sesame oil
1 clove garlic grated

Noodles

300 g dried thin spaghetti
8 C 2L water
2 Tbsp baking soda

Topping

Sliced boiled Salted Pork or Yakibuta if available
soft boiled egg halves
green onions cut finely
corn pan-fried with butter and salt

Instructions:

1. Prepare the toppings (sliced Yakibuta, boiled eggs, green onions, and cooked corn), before making the soup and noodles.

2. Once the noodles are cooked, add the soup and toppings right away or the noodles will get soft, so you won't have time to prepare the toppings at the end.

3. Put ingredients A in a large pot and let boil for 15 minutes.

4. Strain, then put the broth back in the pot.

5. Add ingredients B to the broth and let it simmer at low heat.

6. In boiling water in a pot, add baking soda (be careful, it may boil over), then add pasta.

7. Cook the pasta according to the package.

8. While cooking pasta, add ingredients C to the soup and stir.

9. After cooking pasta, immediately divide noodles into bowls and add soup onto noodles.

10. Top with Yakibuta, boiled egg halves, green onions and corns.

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