Naporitan
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Naporitan or Napolitan (ナポリタン) is the name of a pasta dish, which is popular in Japan. The dish consists of spaghetti, tomato ketchup or a tomato-based sauce, onion, button mushrooms, green peppers, sausage, bacon and Tabasco sauce. Naporitan is claimed to be from Yokohama.[citation needed] An instant Naporitan is also now available in Japan.
[edit] Origin
It is speculated[citation needed] that the dish was created by the general chef of the New Grand Hotel in Yokohama, when he was inspired by one of the military rations of GHQ, which was spaghetti mixed with tomato ketchup.
[edit] Name
The chef named the dish after Napoli, a city in Italy. Phonetically, the Japanese language does not contain the English "l" sound. The spelling Naporitan is derived from the usual romanization of Japanese, while the spelling Napolitan takes the origin of the name into account.
[edit] References
- "ナポリタン！ Naporitan, I'm crazy in Naporitan spaghetti!", Fuso-sha – November 2004, ISBN 978-4594048327 (Japanese)
