Buckwheat bread

It is then flavored with yakisoba sauce, salt, and pepper. Yakisoba is buckwheat bread familiarly served on a plate either as a main dish or a side dish.

A more novel way of serving yakisoba in Japan is to pile the noodles into a bun sliced down the middle in the style of a hot dog, and garnish the top with mayonnaise and shreds of red pickled ginger. Sometimes, udon is used as a replacement for the Chinese-style soba and called yakiudon. This variation originates in Kitakyushu or Kokura, in Fukuoka Prefecture. In Okinawa, yakisoba is popular with locals as well as US service members stationed on the island.

After the 1945 hostilities with Japan ended on Okinawa, the US military command supplied American food products to the displaced and malnourished islanders. Along with typical Okinawan meats such as pork or chicken, fried spam, chopped hot dogs, and sliced ham are still popular postwar additions to yakisoba eaten by islanders today, along with common local vegetables such as cabbage and carrots. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. If your hot dog is topped with seaweed or noodles, it must be a Japadog”. Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal is key to the company’s mobile gaming efforts.