I know there are many kinds of noodles in the world. When someone asks me what my favorite is, I choose Japanese CHAMPON ちゃんぽん.
If you love eating ramen and haven't yet heard of or tried CHAMPON, you should try it while traveling in Japan.
I will give you a summary about it and recommend a restaurant to you below.
Nagasaki Champon 長崎ちゃんぽん is a type of noodle food.
Champon ちゃんぽん
It looks like ramen and cooked by simmering together with the pork bone soup and so on, the noodles and a variety of ingredients such as vegetables, seafood and meat. (Some of the other champon restaurants use fried ingredients before simmering with the soup.)
The noodles of champon are thicker than usual ramen noodles.
Generally, ramen noodles are boiled with hot water. After boiling the noodles, a chef puts them into soup, and puts some ingredients on the ramen. The ingredients of ramen are just toppings. Champon is a different cooking style.
Champon is known as a regional food of Nagasaki 長崎 Prefecture in Kyushu 九州 area, but nowadays it is popular in various locations.
A Restautant RINGERHUT リンガーハット
They specializes in champon, and there are so many restaurants all over Japan.
All vegetables and flour of the noodle / dumplings (gyoza) are from 100% Japanese domestic products at RingerHut.
Nagasaki Champon 長崎ちゃんぽん
When you order Nagasaki Champon, you can choose the bowl size from regular and small size. Both size have different prices.
Regular Bowl 650 yen, Small Bowl 500 yen
If you order the regular bowl size, you can change the noodles to the large size.
Standard 200g
x1.5 (300g) 700 yen
x2 (400g) 750 yen
Even if you change the noodles size, the vegetables quantity is the same: 255g, 0.56lb
There are a few tastes of champon such as standard taste, spicy taste, and seasonal special one.
The standard one called Nagasaki Champon.
In my opinion, the standard taste one is the most recommended dish of Ringerhut.
This restaurant's champon soup is similar to pork flavored ramen, and delicious!
There are some other restaurants that use salt soup instead of pork soup for their champon.
| Bowl size | Quantity of noodles | Price |
| Regular | 400g, 0.88lb (Double) | 750 yen |
| Regular | 300g, 0.66lb (1.5 times) | 700 yen |
| Regular | 200g, 0.44lb | 650 yen |
| Small | 100g. 0.22lb | 500 yen |
Tips of ordering champon
Quantity of Soup
When you are really hungry, I recommend the Double Size Noodles of Nagasaki Champon with Extra Soup.
You order …
Nagasaki Champon Men Ni-bai, Soup Oome
長崎ちゃん 麺2倍 スープ多め
750 yen
Small Champon
If you want a light meal you can order small one below.
Small Champon 小さいちゃんぽん
and
Nagasaki Champon (Small) 長崎ちゃんぽん スモール
are the same.
500 yen Low price!
Noodles only 100g, Vegetables only 130g
The extra soup system is also available for Small Champon 小さいちゃんぽん. (Pictured above)
Spicy Champon
Spicy Champon 700 yen
ピリカラちゃんぽん Pirikara Champon
My favorite dishes of RINGERHUT
Champon Heaped with Vegetables 820 yen
野菜たっぷりちゃんぽん Yasai-tappuri-champon
It contains 480g (1.06lb) of vegetables and 200g (0.44lb) of noodles. Healthy!
You must be full and satisfied.
When you order Champon Heaped with Vegetables 820 yen
野菜たっぷりちゃんぽん Yasai-tappuri-champon,
it is served with 2 kinds of dressings.
- Yuzu citron pepper (ゆずこしょう Yuzukoshou) dressing
- Ginger (しょうが Shoga) dressing
Soupless Noodles with Spicy Sauce
550 yen Cost effective!
まぜ辛めん Maze-karamen
It contains 238g (0.52lb) of vegetables.
This new noodles recipe features thick noodles topped with vegetables and ground meat, but does not have broth like other champon (or typical ramen) dishes. Instead, it is served with spicy Sichuan pepper oil and a bit of sauce at the bottom of the bowl. (Please mix it.)
A disposable bib was kindly offered to me along with the dish, in order to prevent splashing any of the red sauce on my clothing.
This is not spaghetti.
Why don't you try super spicy ramen at another restaurant?
Dumplings and Stir Fried Rice
Putting Yuzu citron pepper (ゆずこしょう Yuzukoshou) on the dumplings is good taste.
* It is green paste in the photo above. When you order the dumplings it is served with this paste.
3 pieces of dumplings 180 yen (ぎょうざ3個 Gyoza-san-ko)
5 pieces of dumplings 280 yen (ぎょうざ5個 Gyoza-go-ko)
Stir Fried Rice (Half size) 290 yen (半チャーハン Han-cha-han)
Small Saraudon 小さい皿うどん 500 yen (as pictured)
Nagasaki (Regular size) Saraudon 長崎皿うどん 680 yen
Saraudon is deep-fried noodles covered with vegetables and very starchy soup.
Eating crispy noodles with very starchy soup is good.
This picture is small size. Vegetables 127g
Another type of Saraudon is below.
Futomen Saraudon 太めん皿うどん 840 yen
Champon Noodles Saraudon
Instead of the deep fried noodles, Futomen Saraudon 太めん皿うどん is used normal (thick and soft) champon noodles, and 255g of vegetables.
- ギョウザのタレ Gyoza Dumplings Sauce
- 皿うどんのソース Saraudon Sauce
- ラー油 Chili Oil
- 酢 Vinegar
- こしょう Pepper
- からし Mustered
Two photos of wood ear mushrooms were not taken at RingerHut.
Main Menu
Reasonable set menu is also available during all business hours.
Gyoza Dumplings Set meals
ぎょうざ定食 Gyoza Teishoku
It includes dumplings, rice, soup and pickles.
7 pieces 400 yen
10 pieces 540 yen
15 pieces 570 yen
3 Pieces of Gyoza Dumplings
A la cart 180 yen
with set meal 170 yen
5 Pieces of Gyoza Dumplings
A la cart 280 yen
with set meal 270 yen
Dessert
Crunchy Milk Shake Ice Cream
食べるミルクセーキ Taberu Milk Shake
Small (a la cart 160 yen) as pictured
Regular (a la cart 270 yen)
Takeout Menu
Nagasaki Saraudon (for to go) 700 yen
長崎皿うどん
When you buy a noodle dish to go, the noodles and soup are packed separately as in the picture above.
The black bowl is microwave-safe, because the printed instructions on the bowl say that.
The instructions don't mention the white bowl. I guess it is not microwave-safe.
1 pack each of sauce and mustard was in the takeout bag. Because these were tiny little packs, I actually wanted a few packs of each!
I should have asked if I could get more.
Seasonal or Discontinued Menu
The sale of these champon items below are ending.
Champon with Scallops and Asari Clams
Champon with Scallops and Asari Clams
ほたてとあさりのちゃんぽん
Regular 890 yen with tax (as pictured)
Small 690 yen
This item was available from April 12, 2021 for a while.
When I had this there were 3 scallops and 11 Asari clams on it.
Champon in Cold Soup with Spicy Miso Topping
Champon in Cold Soup with Spicy Miso Topping
冷やしちゃんぽん Hiyashi Champon
Small 500 yen (as pictured)
Regular 600 yen
This seasonal dish is available from April 23, 2020 until summer.
When I had this dish, these cold ingredients were noodles, soup, shrimp, chicken, tomato, corn, carrot, bean sprouts, wood ear mushrooms, mizuna greens, boiled fish paste and maybe takana pickles.
Spicy oil (Not too spicy)
A disposable apron was served together when I ordered this cold noodles.
It is good for women especially, who don't want their clothes to get dirty with the red oil.
Oyster Champon (Miso Flavor Soup)
Oyster Champon (Miso Flavor Soup)
かきちゃんぽん みそ味スープ Kaki Champon
Tom Yum Goong Champon 2019
Tom Yum Goong Champon 2019 (Small size) トムヤムクンちゃんぽん (スモール) 500 yen
* Noodles only 100g (0.22lb)
* There was no regular (larger) size.The service of extra soup was not available.
Delicious, I will repeat this!
This was less spicy than real Thai style tom yam goong soup.
It was available from August 22, 2019 to maybe until September.
It was topped with 3 large shrimps.
You can see 2 kinds of chopped green leaves on the noodles, but they were not cilantro (coriander). There was no cilantro in it.
However, The restaurant's website said that this Tom Yum Goong soup was flavored with cilantro and lemongrass.
I wish the soup contained real cilantro because I like it.
Tom Yum Goong Champon 2020
Tom Yum Goong Champon 2020 (Regular size) 690 yen
トムヤムクンちゃんぽん 2020 (レギュラー)
Tom Yum Goong Champon トムヤムクンちゃんぽん was available again. It was seasonal item from September 3, 2020. This time, it contained cilantro (coriander). Good!
* You should bring a towel if you sweat easily.
When I had this, it contained 2 large shrimps,1 small shrimp, cilantro, pork, cabbage, bean sprouts, green onion, corn, carrot, onion, cooked fish paste, deep-fried squid paste.
A lot of Wood Ear Mushrooms with Salt Soup Champon
A lot of Wood Ear Mushrooms with Salt Soup Champon
きくらげたっぷり塩ちゃんぽん Kikurage Tappri Shio Champon
710 yen
I hope it is available around winter season.
Wood Ear Mushrooms Topping
Domestically Produced Wood Ear Mushrooms 100 yen
I heard that they stopped serving this additional topping. I hope they put it back on the menu. It was delicious. (Updated September 2019)
Nagasaki Champon 長崎ちゃんぽん Regular 590 yen
+
Wood Ear Mushrooms Topping きくらげ Kikurage 100 yen
Total: 745 yen including 8% tax
I ordered double size noodles (400g).
Starchy Soup Champon
Starchy Soup Champon
Ankake Champon あんかけちゃんぽん (500 yen)
This champon is out of sale. (Updated September 2019)
It was champon with starchy soup. It was priced amazingly lower than the restaurant's other noodle items.
The difference between this and the others was a lot more sprouts were used instead of other vegetables to save on the cost. Nevertheless, it was still rather tasty and I was satisfied after eating it.
This paste is Yuzu citron pepper (ゆずこしょう Yuzukoshou). Putting it in the soup is good taste.
Online Shopping
You can buy champon online.
The website below is in Japanese.
Information
Restaurant name
RingerHut リンガーハット
This website can be translated to English by automated translation service.
Website
- No cover charge / No service fee
- Prices are included 10% tax.
- Their food lineup and list prices vary. The menu of some of their restaurants include an 10% tax depending on the respective restaurants. However, they are managed by the same champon chain.
- At some of the RingerHut restaurants (especially Tokyo area and so on), when you come there after 10:00 pm, you need to pay 10% late-night charge. A late-night charge at Japanese fast food shops is not common though.
- English picture menu is available at the restaurant and on the website.
- They use the meal ticket system or the table order system.
- No Smoking
- You can also order food to go, but the take-home boxes cost additional money.
There are more than 600 branches in Japan.
Some restaurants are located around popular sightseeing areas in downtown Tokyo.
Ikebukuro 池袋
* B1 of a building (shopping mall) Sunshine City ALTA.
Shinjuku 新宿
Shibuya 渋谷
Shinbashi 新橋
* Premium Restaurant: Menu and prices are a little different.
Odaiba お台場
*at the food court on the 1F of AquaCity Odaiba アクアシティお台場
Nakano 中野
Nishiarai 西新井
* at the food court on the 1F of Ario Nishiarai アリオ西新井
They ended this coupon.
After you you paid the bill and the waitress gives you a receipt which is printed with a coupon on the bottom.
When you use it next time, you can choose from 3 pieces of gyoza dumplings or a glass of non-alcoholic drink for free.
Before using it you need to answer an online questionnaire of this restaurant. When you finish all questions 4 digits code will be displayed on the website.
Write the code on the coupon.
http://www.ringer.jp (in Japanese)
クーポン有効期限：
2020年2月29日まで
Expiration Date - February 29, 2020
- It is valid next day.
- You need to order a main dish such as set meal or noodles. (Dumplings set meal 餃子定食 is also OK.)
- Dine-in only
- Not valid with any other (coupon / discount) offer.
- Don't cut off the coupon from the receipt.
- Present coupon upon ordering.
Check out another restaurant's champon!
Are also interested in ramen?
Check it out below!
This restaurant offers a tasty ice cream. It is a milk shake ice cream which has some of the tiny shaved ice mixed in.
I have eaten this a few times during my meals there. One of these times, I had the ice cream without ordering any food. I only stopped by this restaurant to eat the ice cream.
Tastes good! You should try it!