Ie-kei
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Ie-kei (家系) noodle bar chain originates from a noodle bar called "Yoshimura-ya" located in Yokohama. The name Ie-kei literally means "house-type" and has its roots in the word "ya", meaning "house".
The chain uses pork and soy sauce as the base for their soup, and thick, flat noodles. The bowl usually comes with slices of roast pork, 'nori' seaweed, and spinach, but there are other variations of toppings such as eggs, the number of pork slices and the amount of seaweed.
You can also adjust the amount of oil, soy sauce, and the hardness of noodles usually in three levels; plenty, normal, and less, or hard, normal, and soft.
The soup is usually quite oily in most bars, although the amount of soy-sauce varies. Although you can expect roughly the same type of taste in most Ie-kei noodle bars, there are variations depending on the chief noodle-chef in each bar.