Exploring the World of Yakisoba: A Quintessential Japanese Street Food Delight

What is Yakisoba?

Yakisoba, meaning “Fried noodles” in Japanese, is a popular dish consisting of grilled noodles stir-fried with pork, seasoned vegetables, and Worcestershire sauce.
While the exact origin of Yakisoba is not clear, it has been familiar to people in Asakusa, Tokyo since the pre-war period. It gained popularity as a homemade meal after Chinese noodles became widespread around 1955.

Yakisoba is commonly enjoyed as a snack in beverage stores, as well as a street food or refreshment booth at festivals. It is easy to prepare by cooking on a hot plate, making it a relatively cheap and common food.
Similar to Takoyaki and Okonomiyaki, Yakisoba falls under the category of “B kyuu Gurume,” which refers to second-grade gourmet cuisine in Japanese.

One of the unique aspects of Yakisoba is that it has various local versions known as “Gotouchi Gurume.”
These regional variations add to the appeal of Yakisoba when traveling to different areas in Japan. It is highly popular among locals, but relatively rare to find on restaurant menus, which might seem strange.
One reason for its popularity is the ease of making delicious Yakisoba, as the ingredients can be conveniently purchased at any supermarket or grocery store.

The way to cook Yakisoba

• Ingredient for one person
  • Noodle&worcestershire sauce powder: Maruchan Yakisoba 1portion (¥370 for 3 portion)
    
  • Pork libs: 40g
  • Cabbage: 30g(1-2 learge leaves)
  • Carrot: 20g   1/5 of a whole carrot
  • Sprout: 50g
  • Salad oil : 10ml(Small amount)
  • Water:  60ml
• Process
  1. Preheat the pan with salad oil and  put in pan as the order of the meat,  carrot, cabbage, and sprout which are all cut into bite-sized pieces and fry them together on midium heat.
  2. Put the noodle in the pan and pour  60ml of water.
  3. Steram the noodle for a while and turn it over.
  4. Loosen slowly by chopstick from peripheral part of noodle.
  5. Chow it while mingling  until there is no water.
  6. Turn down the heat and sprincle the worcestershire sauce powder.
  7. Mingle until the noodle are colored uniformly.
  8. Turn up the heat back and fry them unti the you hear the sound of cracling.
  9. Turn off the heat and serve them on a dish.

The variety of Yakisoba related foods

• Yakisobapan
  Yakisoba pan is a  Souzai pan stuffed with yakisoba.
  The bread of the Yakisoba pan is the same  as the one for Hotdog.
  The blog article related Souzai pan is as follows.
  ”What are “Kashipan and Souzaipan”? They areJapanese specialty breads.”
• Modanyaki
  It is Ohsaka style Okonomiyaki which is filled with Yakisoba.
  

Let’s enjoy the food of Japanese general public taste which is one of my recommendation.