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Soba
Japanese Cuisine
Thin buckwheat noodles served cold with a dipping sauce or hot in a light dashi broth.
Category
Noodles
Main Ingredient
Buckwheat
Cooking Method
Boiled
Spice Level
Mild
Region
Nationwide
Cuisine
Japanese
Fun Fact
On New Year's Eve, Japanese people eat toshikoshi soba — 'year-crossing noodles' — to symbolically cut away the hardships of the past year, as the long thin noodles are easy to bite through cleanly.