Menma
Menma(メンマ, diện ma, diện mã)is a Japanese condiment made fromlacto-fermentedbamboo shoots.The bamboo shoots are dried in the sun or through other means before the process of fermentation. Menma is a common topping fornoodle soups,notablyramen.Menma is primarily produced inChina,with brands imported fromsouthern ChinaandTaiwanbeing popular.[1]Menma is also known asshinachiku(Chi na trúc),"Chinese bamboo".[1][2]
Etymology
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The trading company that would later become Marumatsu Bussan had been exporting dried bamboo shoots produced inTaiwanasshinachiku.In 1946, responding to a formal objection to the use of the termShinafrom the Taiwanese government, theJapanese Foreign Ministryissued a memorandum recommending that the term be avoided.[3]Marumatsu Bussan founder Shūsui Matsumura claims that he came up with the new product name menma, aportmanteauoframen( lạp diện ) andmachiku( ma trúc ), the type of bamboo from which it is made, after seeing it served atop ramen inYokohama Chinatown.This name could not be trademarked but gradually became accepted as the common name for the condiment as its popularity grew in Japan.
Menma is not, however, customarily eaten atop noodles in Taiwan; the vegetable toppings on the popular noodle dishZhajiangmian,Thái mã (Pinyin:càimǎ) were once called diện mã (miànmǎ).[citation needed]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ab"メンマ"[Menma].Nihon Kokugo Daijiten(in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012.OCLC56431036.Archived fromthe originalon 2007-08-25.Retrieved2012-05-31.
- ^"メンマ"[Menma].Nihon Daihyakka Zensho (Nipponika)(in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012.OCLC153301537.Archived fromthe originalon 2007-08-25.Retrieved2012-06-08.
- ^Seewikisource: Chi na の hô xưng を tị けることに quan する kiện
External links
[edit]- Recipe at RecipeZaar.com
- Măng khôAsay food
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