The story
Miso ramen was born in Sapporo, the snowy capital of Hokkaido. In the mid-1950s Morito Omiya, founder of the ramen shop Aji no Sanpei, created a hearty one-bowl meal for the hungry postwar city by putting noodles in a rich miso-based soup, inspired, he said, by ordinary miso soup rather than the popular tale of a drunk customer's request. He worked with a local noodle maker on curly noodles that held the broth. Press coverage soon spread the word, and from the 1960s miso ramen, often topped with butter and sweetcorn, drew visitors to Sapporo and spread across Japan.
Also known as 味噌ラーメン, Sapporo miso ramen, Sapporo ramen.
On the Meridish menu
Miso ramen was the soup course on menu No. 14 on October 14, 2026. Its clue in the game, which hints at the place without naming it:
Ramen in a rich miso broth, often topped with butter and sweetcorn. A shop in this snowy northern city first put noodles in miso soup in the 1950s, to beat the cold.
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Sources
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