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What is Soba (Buckwheat Noodles)?

Contents: What are Soba Noodles? Types of Soba Nutritional Value Different Soba Styles How to eat Soba? How to cook Soba? What are Soba Noodles? Originally, soba was eaten in the form of sobagaki (a dumpling made of soba flour kneaded with boiling water). Until then, the majority of people had enjoyed eating udon noodles, and soba had been viewed as secondary when compared to udon. However, as soba restaurants emerged and spread across the city of Edo (now known as Tokyo), the situation was reversed and soba became more dominant. Back then soba was sold under the name Ni-hachi (two eight) soba. There are two theories about the origin of this name: one is that soba was made of […]