taste. Kyūshū Mizutaki - a nabemono dish of chicken and vegetables cooked in broth and served with a ponzu dipping sauce (Fukuoka) Hakata ramen - noodles served in a tonkotsu (pork bone stock) soup with unique toppings such as beni shōga (pickled ginger), sesame seeds and picked greens. Yatai stalls in Hakata and Tenjin are well-known. Many restaurants operate a system known as kaedama (替え玉), where customers who have finished eating can ask for cheap additional bundles of noodles to be put in their remaining soup. Now popular throughout Japan. Motsunabe - a nabemono dish of beef or pork offal. (Fukuoka) Mentaiko spicy fish eggs (Fukuoka) Champon - a ramen-like dish of noodles, seafood and vegetables cooked in the same pot. (Nagasaki) Castella - a sweet, rectangular sponge cake, introduced to Nagasaki by the Portuguese in the 16th Century. Now popular throughout Japan. (Nagasaki) Chicken namban - fried battered chicken dipped in a vinegary sauce and served with tartar sauce. (Miyazaki Prefecture) Dango-jiru - a miso or a soy sauce-based soup containing wheat noodles as well as vegetables, shimeji mushrooms and pork. Kakuni - pork belly, stewed in sweetened soy-based broth until very soft (Nagasaki and Kagoshima) Keihan - chicken soup with rice (Amami Islands). Tonkotsu - Kagoshima pork ribs simmered in shochu, miso, and black sugar for over five hours, not to be confused with Tonkotsu ramen Tonkotsu ramen - pork belly and ribs, stewed for several hours alongside konnyaku and daikon in a broth containing miso, brown sugar and shōchū. A popular izakaya and ekiben item in the Kagoshima region. sake-zushi - a type of sushi which uses rice flavored with sake instead of the usual rice vinegar. Served in a tub topped with shrimp, sea bream, octopus, shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots and shredded omelette. Toriten - a tempura chicken that can be dipped in a soy sauce based sauce. (Ōita Prefecture) Okinawa Chanpurū - Okinawan stir fry. Gōyā chanpurū - gōyā (bitter melon) stir fried with other vegetables, tofu, and either Spam, bacon, thinly sliced pork belly, or canned tuna. Tōfu chanpurū - firm Okinawan tofu stir-fried with vegetables and Spam, bacon, thinly sliced pork belly, or canned tuna. Naaberaa chanpurū - chanpurū made with luffa. Rafute - stewed pork belly. Soki - stewed pork ribs. Okinawa soba - a noodle soup vaguely resembling udon, often topped with soki ("soki-soba"). Naaberaa Nbushii - miso-flavored luffa stir-fry Taco