Saturday, September 22, 2007

Taiwan Ramen, Tsurukameya

I had today's lunch at Tsuru-kame-ya (鶴亀屋) located very close to JR Musashi-Koganei station, Tokyo.



The above left ramen is Taiwan Ramen.
It's a very spicy one, and with a lot of chili.
I recommend that you would get into good trim before trying that...

BTW, Taiwan Ramen seems to be a specialty of Nagoya.
Strange! Isn't it?

Wikipedia taught me that it comes from a Taiwan cuisine restaurant in Nagoya in '70s.
You can find some literature at Wikipedia. The article says that Nagoya people like very spicy foods. But, I'm not sure if they really do. At least, a colleague of mine from Nagoya does not.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

名古屋にこういう激辛系ラーメンもあったとは・・・。名古屋のラーメンってすがきやというイメージが強かったので。

味噌、小倉トースト、手羽先、喫茶マウンテン(これは店の名前か)、台湾ラーメン・・・名古屋めしもワンダーランドだなあ。一回、きちんと旅行に行ってみなければ・・・。