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]

http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/indepth/history/food/img/SOBA.jpg
Link (http://web-japan.org/nipponia/nipponia21/en/appetit/)

[xerxes99]

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

[bezz]

Some buckwheat noodle soup types:

http://www.nichimen.or.jp/images/menu/kake.jpg
Kake-soba: plain, just soy-based soup/broth

http://www.nichimen.or.jp/images/menu/tanuki.jpg
Tanuki-soba: "raccoon" soba, tempura batter crisp topping

http://www.nichimen.or.jp/images/menu/kamonan.jpg
Kamo Namban soba: duck and leek

http://www.nichimen.or.jp/images/menu/tsukim.jpg
Tsukimi-soba: "Moon-through-cloud," egg-drop

[bezz]

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

http://www.seifun.or.jp/topics/huukei/image/sobahirano.jpg

[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]

Wanko-soba is one of Iwate (http://www.iwatetabi.jp/en/) 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.

http://www.iwatetabi.jp/photo/03201081.jpg
Link (http://travel.japan-tohoku.com/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?id=080008&country=en)
more (http://www.northern-tohoku.gr.jp/english/discover/sub_d04.html)

[bezz]

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 (http://www.kankou.pref.shimane.jp/e/gourmet/)

http://www2.pref.shimane.jp/kouhou/esque/30/071.jpg

[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. O.o

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]

Oh my, I know soba....but on second thought after reading these posts...maybe not :worried: 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!:cool: 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! :bluush:

[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]

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

http://www.seifun.or.jp/topics/huukei/image/soba1.jpg http://www.seifun.or.jp/topics/huukei/image/soba2.jpg

[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]

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.

[bezz]

Hegi-soba, buckwheat mixed with "red algae" gello starch to keep the noodles less brittle: related thread (http://www.jref.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28065).

http://www.pref.niigata.jp/sangyorodo/kankoshinko/en/contents/area/uonuma/tas/img/0001.jpg
Link (http://www.city.ojiya.niigata.jp/kikaku/english/e_kanko/e_product/pro02.html)

[ToroMay]

i always order tenzaru in japanese restaurants.
i love it!
man. all those pictures above are making me hungry.

[caster51]

Tempre soba, kake-soba...and etc(something with soba) are evil course for me.
only mori-soba is the way of soba:relief:
http://www.seifun.or.jp/topics/huukei/image/soba1.jpg

A delicate taste is not understood.

[antinec]

I very much prefer soba over ramen or udon, especially Okinawa soba (a little partial there). Maybe because ramen is so readily available here, while you have to search for soba.
Who in North America didn't grow up with 'Ichiban instant ramen'?? Once a week throughout childhood is enough for me!

[LadyDancer]

I haven't made soba before but I love it! It's really awesome...:-)

[boroboro]

Soba is very easy to make and pretty inexpensive. I like cold soba and will usually buy buck wheat and cha soba. Cook al dente and serve chilled with shredded nori, shredded daikon, finely diced green onion, wasabe paste, on the side and buy or make a mentsuyu dipping sauce.

[kireikoori]

I had Wanko Soba when I was in Japan. It was quite delicious. Though I'm more used to warm noodles.

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

I eat Toshikoshi Soba (New Year's Eve's buckwheat noodles) tonight.:wave:

[Pepe]

Love it - two thumbs up! Especially cold as a little 'pick me up' snack. I'm a little different to most as I do not like hot foods (by that I mean ambient temperature, I do love spicy), but I love cold or cool foods and cold soba is right up there with gazpacho as a refreshment.

[Masamune_74]

<----Loves Okinawa Soba!! Oishi!! Meuuu

[Kirirao]

I live on hot tempura soba + wakame everyday~

Would love to start making my own soba tho.
Anyone know how do you actually make the soba soup?
Every shop have a different taste too. I wonder how they make those soup.

Oh and is soba good for health?

[kameron]

the yaki-soba in my town is awesome, no more rice for me, thanks

[joaniedark]

8D I love soba. I order it all the time at my friend's Japanese restaurant (they have the best soba I've ever tasted) And I'm sure it'll be one of the first things I learn to cook... (I fail as a domestic)