Nagoya Dining

Nagoya’s cuisine is pretty different from traditional Japanese fare. While most of the best-known Japanese dishes are famed for their subtlety, delicate, and refined tastes, with its spicy red miso and peppery tebasaki, Nagoya cuisine is known for having a kick to it;  none more so than Taiwan ramen! What is Taiwan Ramen? Taiwan ramen is perhaps the spiciest of Japan’s ramen soup dishes. Ground pork, Chinese chives, green onions, and bean sprouts are seasoned with lots of spicy red peppers and other spices before being fried. Added to this is a heroic quantity of garlic, and then the mix is placed in a soy-sauce chicken broth with ramen noodles. With all the garlic and chili, it is quite a strong-smelling dish – and you certainly wouldn’t want to be kissing anyone after eating it – though the first taste generally is not that piquant. But then, as the spices meld with the hot soup and the chili kick in, you’ll be sweating buckets before you can say, ‘can someone get me a glass of milk, please!’ In the best possible way, of course Is it not Taiwanese? Now, I know what you are thinking: “Taiwan ramen? That doesn’t sound…