Soba
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Soba are Japanese noodles made from buckwheat flour, with varying amounts of wheat flour mixed in. It has an ashen brown color, and a slightly grainy texture. The noodles are served either chilled wit
Dried soba
Mori soba, served cold with dipping sauce and negi
Stele commemorating the introduction of soba and udon noodles at Jōten-ji temple. Enni, the temple's founder, is traditionally believed to have brought noodlemaking back to Japan from China.
Print depicting Sunaba, a popular soba restaurant from Osaka. By Takehara Shunchōsai, 1796–1798
Yakisoba
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Yakisoba is a Japanese noodle stir-fried dish. Usually, soba noodles are made from buckwheat flour, but soba in yakisoba are Chinese-style noodles made from wheat flour, typically flavored with a cond
Soba
…支那そば), both meaning "Chinese noodles", though the word shina is now considered offensive. Soba can be used to refer to wheat noodles, as in aburasoba or yakisoba. In Okinawa, soba generally refers to Okinawa soba, also made from wheat flour. Traces of buckwheat have been found at Neolithic sites in Japan, dating…
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Yakisoba
Yakisoba
Ōta-yakisoba