Napolitan is a spaghetti dish that originated in Japan.

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 Napolitan is a spaghetti dish that originated in Japan.
The version of Napolitan that we know today first became popular after World War II.

It is said that the original version was meatball spaghetti, which was eaten by American soldiers from the occupation forces, and that it was first made at the New Grand Hotel (Yokohama City), where Douglas MacArthur and other officers were staying.

The characteristic of the Japanese-born spaghetti "Napolitan" is that the pasta is boiled until it is soft right down to the core, giving it a chewy texture.

After the end of World War II, in the 1960s, "kitchen cars" appeared, which demonstrated cooking and served it for free in order to improve the nutrition of the Japanese people. The kitchen cars, which provided nutritional guidance, travelled around the country, introducing recipes for spaghetti, pancakes, doughnuts and more.

Of the dishes introduced in this way, the spaghetti napolitan quickly spread throughout the country because it was easy to prepare and tasty, and it became a popular dish for the Japanese people.

The spaghetti napolitan, which is made with soft noodles, was considered to be "heretical" by the Italians, who are the home of spaghetti, but recently it has become widely known to tourists from overseas, and it has been re-evaluated as one of Japan's finest gourmet dishes.

Incidentally, the Hotel New Grand, which invented the Neapolitan dish, is also one of the places where Japanese Western-style food originated, having invented dishes such as "doria", which is pilaf with bechamel sauce baked in the oven, and "pudding a la mode", which is custard pudding with vanilla ice cream and fruit.

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