Naporitan

Template:Short description Template:Expand Japanese Template:Template other Naporitan or Napolitan (Template:Langx) is a popular Japanese itameshi pasta dish. The dish consists of soft-cooked spaghetti, tomato ketchup, onion, button mushrooms, green peppers, sausage, bacon and optionally Tabasco sauce. Naporitan is claimed to be from Yokohama.

Origin

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A naporitan shop in Akihabara

Naporitan was created by Shigetada Irie (), the chef of the Hotel New Grand in Yokohama, for general Douglas MacArthur. Because available ingredients were limited after World War II, he had to use what was on hand for the general, who lived at the hotel with his wife.

Name

The chef named the dish after Naples, Italy (hence "Napoli"). Phonetically, the Japanese language does not distinguish R and L as separate sounds, and so uses the same katakana characters to represent R and L sounds of Western alphabets. Thus when converting katakana back into English, based solely on the Japanese spelling in the English alphabet is ambiguous and can vary. The spelling Naporitan is derived from the usual romanization of Japanese, while the spelling Napolitan takes the origin of the name into account. This could be roughly translated as Neapolitan.

Gallery

• With sausage and broccoli
  With sausage and broccoli
• With cheese
  With cheese
• With bell peppers
  With bell peppers
• With bacon
  With bacon
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• "Toruko rice". Tonkatsu, pilaf, and Neaporitan are common. Although the name is derived from Turkey, the dish was created in Japan.[2]
  "Toruko rice". Tonkatsu, pilaf, and Neaporitan are common. Although the name is derived from Turkey, the dish was created in Japan.

See also

• Yōshoku
• Itameshi
• List of pasta dishes
• Neapolitan ragù
• Filipino spaghetti, a similar pasta dish from Philippines

References

• " Naporitan, I'm crazy for Naporitan spaghetti!", Fuso "smick" sha – November 2004, Template:ISBN (Japanese)