buckwheat noodles– tag –

Many soba restaurants offer both "morisoba" and "zarusoba" in their cold soba menu.The visual difference lies in the presence of "nori" on the soba. If chopped nori is on top, it's called "zarusoba," while the one without nori is commonl...

Shinshu (now Nagano Prefecture) is said to be the birthplace of soba-kiri. Nagano Prefecture has a large temperature difference between day and night, and the well-drained mountainous fields are suitable for cultivating buckwheat. There ...

Shimane Prefecture's local dish "Izumo soba" is counted as one of the three major soba noodles Japan. The noodles are dark-skinned, chewy and fragrant, and have excellent nutritional value because the skin is ground when the buckwheat fr...