ナポリタン

なぽりたん
noun
Napolitan; Japanese ketchup spaghetti
food
1. Napolitan; ketchup-sauce spaghetti
A Japanese pasta dish of spaghetti stir-fried with ketchup, onion, green pepper, and sausage or ham. Despite the name, it was invented in Yokohama after the war and is not Italian.
昼(ひる)はナポリタンにした。
I had Napolitan for lunch.
この喫茶店(きっさてん)のナポリタンは昔(むかし)から人気(にんき)がある。
This coffee shop's Napolitan has been popular for a long time.
鉄(てつ)のフライパンで作(つく)るナポリタンは、少(すこ)し焦(こ)げたケチャップの香(かお)りがおいしい。
Napolitan made in an iron frying pan has a delicious aroma of slightly browned ketchup.

One of the best-known dishes of 洋食(ようしょく) (Western-style Japanese cooking), strongly associated with old-fashioned 喫茶店(きっさてん) and with school and workplace cafeterias.

Common collocations

Similar words

  • 鉄板(てっぱん)ナポリタン: a Nagoya version served sizzling on an iron plate over egg
  • ミートソース: meat sauce (bolognese) — the other classic Japanese spaghetti standard
  • パスタ: pasta — the modern, more Italian-leaning general term

Related Words

Compare: ミートソース (meat sauce)
Compare: パスタ (pasta)
Related: ケチャップ (ketchup)
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Added 2026.8.5 9:20 · Revised 2026.9.2 13:02
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