Soba - who likes it?

[healthhokkaido.com]

Hi - ive been surprised recently how many soba shops there are popping up around my area - has anyone ever made it themselves? If so how?

 

[bezz]

蕎麦


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[xerxes99]

Biiig fan of soba here. I love Izumo soba, an excellent local variety.

 

[bezz]

Some buckwheat noodle soup types:

Kake-soba: plain, just soy-based soup/broth

Tanuki-soba: "raccoon" soba, tempura batter crisp topping

Kamo Namban soba: duck and leek

Tsukimi-soba: "Moon-through-cloud," egg-drop

 

[bezz]

天ざる

"Ten-zaru" is cold soba and tempura combo meal, first served at Muromachi Sunaba.

 

[Mrjones]

depends how its made really... I prefer just ramen mostly though.

 

[Revenant]

Quite like the soba with mountain vegetables.

 

[ricecake]

I have preference for Soba over Japanese Ramen,like it serve cold with dipping soya and Tempura.

 

[Han Chan]

Cold soba during the summer and hot soba during the winter.
Real soba should be enjoyed in a soba restaurant where the prepare the soba in hand. Just like whit pasta the fresh is far more tasty!
I know a few good soba restaurant in Shinshu (Nagano) and a really great one just outside Tsukuba!
:gohan:

 

[yukio_michael]

I have regretfully NOT mastered how to make instant soba... the instructions were in Japanese and I botched it up horribly.

 

[bezz]

わんこそば

Wanko-soba is one of Iwate specialties, all-you-can-eat buckwheat binge in small noodle bowl portions where servers make sure to keep them refilled forever until they get way too full to move.

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[bezz]

割子そば

I love Izumo soba, an excellent local variety.

Izumo soba served cold in stackable bowls is called warigo-soba. Izumo soba could be in warm kama-age style too.
Other Shimane specialties here: Link

 

[blue_rebel]

I love tanuki soba
I've never tried making my own soba, I don't have the stuff for it. Might consider making it in the future, if I manage to find the time. >.< Cooking has never been my forte.

 

[Sukotto]

焼きそば? yakisoba?
おいしそう！

although i heard it is junk food like a hamburger.
I think i will try to order cold soba noodles the next time i go out for Japanese.
(try-if they ｈave it)
次の方、そばを注文してみると思います。

 

[taeter_tot]

Buckwheat noodles Soba is not for me,never liked it.

 

[Nicky]

I like soba, I tried it for the first time this Friday. I had noticed it in the international section at star market and grabbed it. The one I bought had yam in it I think, and they also had the dipping sauce which I also purchased. Which my mother dropped in the parking lot, Which I only just replaced yesterday.

Anyways, I like these noodles a lot.

 

[bezz]

Buckwheat noodles Soba is not for me,never liked it.

Many "Japanese" restaurants run by non-Japanese serve their own "creative" stuff as soba, like sesame dip with stinky garlic, way too overcooked "American-style" noodles, so forth.

 

[tampopo]

yeah, I like soba, not the cold soba though.

 

[knina102]

eh? confused Nina, tasukete kudasai!

Oh my, I know soba....but on second thought after reading these posts...maybe not I started eating soba after following a "blood type diet". I am not to eat flour based food most of the time. This was a wrecking news at first because I eat noodle!!! However, I can eat soba noodle. Yay! Demo...I don't ..really know how to eat it...>_< I usually just cook it with broth, add some salt and other spices. Gees....I guess I really ill-using the soba ne? I sometimes use miso and dashi too. Make it like miso soup, but with soba in it. .....:? So....anybody can explain to me what are the different types of soba and how exactly to cook it, be it cold or hot? Arigatou gozaimasu!

 

[haradasun]

The picture of the Kamo Namban soba looks yummy! What kind of broth do they use for this type of dish? Secondly, can someone describe the taste sensation of this dish. What are soba similar to in terms of texture?
Must try these dishes one day...

 

[Anohito]

I like both soba and ramen, but I'm not so fond of udon (except as nabeyaki udon). Cold soba is okay, but I prefer the hot varieties. When I say "ramen", I do not include instant ramen, although the instant noodles themselves do have uses (throw away that "flavor packet"!). I've never used ramen noodles at home, though, and it has been a long time since I used soba noodles at home.

 

[bezz]

年越し蕎麦

"Toshikoshi soba" (means accross-the-years) is a tradition there, buckwheat noodles in the evening/night of new year's eve.

 

[tampopo]

The first time I had soba was 15 years ago today! I lived in San Francisco at the time and went out to dinner late with some Japanese friends, who explained the significance of it.

 

[LarsTheo]

Chabuya in Los Angeles

I went to a new Soba restaurant called Chabuya (a branch of a restaurant in Tokyo) on Sawtelle a few months ago and ordered soba noodles in a pork broth. I liked the noodles but I found the broth too greasy and there was too much fat on the pork, although that is probably more authentic Japanese than I like. I also buy the noodles at markets, and I recently found a Korean market that sells them much more cheaply than the Japanese market, but the Japanese market (Mitsuwa) is much closer to my house.

 

[ChrisC]

I love soba. I cook the buckwheat soba here at home usually, I like it with a dipping sauce too. I Japan I went to a noodle restaurant where they gave us 3 different types of soba. One was yuzu, lemony. I forget what the other ones were. They were delicately flavored, delicous. I have not tried to make it yet.