[Yamagata Prefecture] If you have it nearby, you can also use it for ramen! The birthplace of “chilled” ramen “Sakaeya Honten”

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2024.05.11
Last updated: 2024.05.8

table of contents

1 Cold ramen from a long-established store founded in 1930
2 Cold ramen at the current Sakaeya main store
3 Today's cold ramen has a wide variety!
4 summary
- 4.1 Sakaeya main store <Information>

In the hot summer, you want to eat something cold! Isn't ``chilled'' surprisingly unlikely to be available in such a situation

In Hokkaido, hiyashi chuka is sometimes called hiyashi ramen, but this hiyashi ramen is not hiyashi chuka! with soup , which means it's "chilled."

It seems that it has been invented in various regions across Japan, but it seems that it originated in Yamagata Prefecture! we will be introducing ``Yamagata specialty cold ramen'' which was born from Sakaeya main store in Honmachi, Yamagata city

Cold ramen from a long-established store founded in 1930

It all started on a hot summer day in the Showa era, when a customer asked, ``Why don't you have cold ramen if you have cold soba?''

The first owner of Sakaeya Honten decided to make cold ramen, but a problem arose during the cooking process. If the soup is cold, the fat will solidify.

After researching for about a year, in the summer of 1950, he developed a method of cooling beef soup, filtering the fat, and making the stock using bonito flakes and kelp. The original cold ramen used beef soup and beef chashu.

Cold ramen at the current Sakaeya main store

When you order cold ramen from Sakaeya Honten, you'll find kamaboko and cucumber, which you don't often find in regular ramen, sitting in the center as ingredients. Bean sprouts may be unusual for soy sauce-based ramen ingredients.

The thick soup becomes just the right amount of seasoning as the ice melts. Coupled with the fact that it is served chilled, the noodles are chewy and very filling!

Today's cold ramen has a wide variety!

If you check the menu at Sakaeya Honten, you 'll find that there are 14 different variations of cold ramen alone This time I went for "chilled ramen" I would like to try the "super spicy cold ramen"

Cold ramen sets for souvenirs are also sold at the cash register.

summary

In fact, Yamagata is a competitive area for ramen, boasting the highest consumption of ramen in Japan. Cold ramen can be said to be a local dish that suits Yamagata's unique climate, which gets extremely hot in the summer due to the influence of the basin.

Soba is of course delicious, but cold ramen is also recommended for a hot summer trip to Yamagata!

By the way, as a side note, in the chilled menu area, "chilled" or "chilled" ? There seems to be some controversy over the notation, but this time I followed Sakaeya Honten's notation and unified it with ``chilled''!