ジャージャー麺めん

also: ジャージャンめん

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Meanings

noun

zhajiangmian; Chinese-style noodles with ground pork and miso-based sauce

food / cooking

A Chinese-derived noodle dish popular in Japan, typically consisting of wheat noodles topped with a savory sauce made from ground pork, fermented soybean paste (miso or tianmianjiang), and sometimes vegetables.

from Chinese zhájiàngmiàn

今日きょうのランチはジャージャー麺めんにしよう。
Let's have zhajiangmian for lunch today.
この店みせのジャージャー麺めんは本ほん格かく的てきだ。
The zhajiangmian at this restaurant is authentic.

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Kanji

麺noodles, wheat flour
炸frying, explosion
醤a kind of miso

Related words

担々麺たんたんめん
Both are Chinese-style noodle dishes, but tantanmen features a spicy sesame-based broth, while zhajiangmian is characterized by a thick, savory meat sauce without soup.
炸醤麺じゃーじゃんめん
Same dish, but 炸醤麺 is the direct kanji borrowing from Chinese and is rarely used in Japanese; ジャージャー麺 is the standard Japanese spelling.

Written forms

ジャージャー麺めん
Most common spelling in Japanese, combining katakana for the Chinese loanword with the kanji 麺 for noodles.
炸醤麺じゃーじゃんめん
Kanji spelling directly from Chinese; rarely used in Japanese and may be unfamiliar to readers.
ジャージャン麺めん
Alternate katakana spelling reflecting the Chinese pronunciation more closely; less common than ジャージャー麺.
ジャージャンめん

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese 炸醬麵／炸酱面 (zhájiàngmiàn), literally 'fried sauce noodles'. The Japanese pronunciation ジャージャーめん approximates the Chinese sounds, and the dish was adapted into Japanese cuisine.