Naporitan or Napolitan ( ja, ナポリタン) is a popular

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dish. The dish consists of soft-cooked

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s, green peppers,

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and optionally

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. Naporitan is claimed to be from

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Origin

It was created by Shigetada Irie (), the chef of the Hotel New Grand in Yokohama.

Name

The chef named the dish after

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

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(hence "Napoli"). Phonetically, the

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doesn't 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 writing the spelling in the English alphabet is ambiguous and can vary. The spelling Naporitan is derived from the usual

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, while the spelling Napolitan takes the origin of the name into account. This could be roughly translated as Neapolitan.

References

* " Naporitan, I'm crazy for Naporitan spaghetti!", Fuso "smick" sha – November 2004, (Japanese) {{Pasta dishes Pasta dishes Japanese fusion cuisine Italian fusion cuisine

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