A type of Japanese wheat-flour noodle popular in East Asian cuisine, derived from Chinese 'lamian' noodles.
The noodle soup dish of the same name is made by serving ramen noodles in beef or fish broth that is flavored with soy sauce or miso, and topped with a variety of items such as char siu, seaweed, heimuer, narutomaki, softboiled egg, chopped spring onion and kamaboko. There are different flavor distinctions for ramen, such as shio (salty), tonkotsu (pork bone), shoyuu (soy), hiyashi (chilled) and miso.
