SOBA NOODLES | SAVORY

Soba noodles are buckwheat flour noodles that can served either hot or cold. Some foods have the name soba in it such as yakisoba, chuka soba and okinawa soba, but note that those do not use soba noodles but rather regular wheat flour noodles. The most basic dish of soba is mori soba - when the soba is prepared cold and served with a dipping sauce (tsuyu). The other popular soba dish is known as kake soba -which is prepared in a hot warm broth with the same dipping sauce but with a lower concentration. Soba noodle restaurants are everywhere in Japan.

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