【YOKOHAMA】Find out the first Napolitan in Japan!

It is well known that "Spaghetti Neapolitan", which is a classic Western food restaurant with spaghetti and tomato ketchup, is a Japanese pasta dish. This is because, in Italy, ketchup is basically not used (or rather, it is treated as a mischief), so there is no such dish.

Napolitan has a mysterious magical power.

Once enchanted, "red spell" can only be considered.

It will be hard if you get this. 

It is such a fascinating "ナポリタン (Napolitan)", but did you know that it were born in Yokohama?

When I looked it up on the Internet, I heard that there was a lot of information that it was born at "ホテルニューグランド (Hotel New Grand)".

In addition, it is possible to eat at a restaurant called "The Cafe" on the first floor of the hotel.

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The pasta is a little soft and the ingredients are ham and mushroom. The sauce does not use ketchup, but is made by simmering chopped garlic, onions, raw tomatoes, and finishes with chopped parsley, cheese is attached to the side.

Surprisingly, "original Napolitan" was not "ketchup" taste.

Also, green pepper peppers were not used.

The origin of Napolitan was MacArthur

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In the first place, "Hotel New Grand" seems to have opened in 1927 as a symbol of the reconstruction of Yokohama after the Great Kanto Earthquake. At that time, a Swiss chef called “Sally Weil” was invited as a chef from a hotel in Paris.

After that, the Pacific War ended in 1945, and "Hotel New Grand" was requisitioned as GHQ's general command. At one point, Douglas MacArthur said he wanted to eat a hamburger, but he couldn't even make a hamburger because of the lack of supplies after the war.

So he immediately ordered food supplies, and among them were "pasta" and "ketchup"

At that time, Mr. Shigetada Irie was the second chef.

He said he got the idea of the recipe when he saw the American soldiers eating ketchup on pasta.

However, since ketchup is too mundane for a hotel to offer, the "originating Napolitan" using its own tomato sauce was born here.

A variety of Napolitan appeared in the boom of the coffee shop after the war

After that, Japan will enter a period of high growth from around 1955.

The "coffee shop boom" is here. With the growing need for light snacks that symbolize the longing of America, napolitan and sandwiches have become staples in coffee shops.

Eventually, red wiener and green peas were used, and the "Napolitan heyday" was full of variety.

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