How to eat Soba
How to eat “Morisoba” (heaping bowls of buckwheat noodles)
The most favorite menu item for Soba lovers is Morisoba.
Morisoba is simply soba served in a bowl.
Whether it is served in a steamer basket, on a colander, or on a plate, all soba that is simply heaped up and not modified in any way is called “morisoba. Both zaru-soba and steamed basket-soba are classified as arisari-soba.
The reason why heari-soba is the most popular type of soba is that the flavor and texture of the noodle can be best appreciated.
Soba is a food to be enjoyed for its aroma, taste, and texture, and its deliciousness is very delicate. The taste of juwari soba is especially delicate, and changes in seconds after the noodles are boiled and placed in a bowl. That is why customers must eat the soba without taking their time once it is placed in front of them.
If they take time to take pictures of the soba, the taste of the soba will be lost in that short period of time.
The taste of noodles is very delicate, but the taste of soba-tsuyu (buckwheat sauce) is quite strong. Therefore, you should not eat soba with soba-tsuyu on the noodle from the beginning. The soba sauce flavor is so strong that you will not be able to taste the noodles.
A good way to eat soba is to take only the noodle with chopsticks and taste the noodle without dipping it in the soba-tsuyu.
If you eat soba without dipping the noodle in soba-tsuyu, you will be laughed at as a person who does not know soba.
How to use soba-tsuyu
After enjoying the taste of the noodle, dip the noodle in the soba-tsuyu and enjoy the harmony of the noodle and soba-tsuyu flavors. The next step is to dip the noodles in the soba-tsuyu and enjoy the harmony of the noodle and soba-tsuyu flavors. In this way, you will not be able to taste the flavor of the noodle. If you dip the end of the noodle, about one-third of the noodle, in the soba-tsuyu, you can enjoy both the taste of the noodle and the taste of the soba-tsuyu.
How to Drink Sobayu
After finishing the noodles, drink soba-yu (buckwheat water). Sobayu is usually served in a tub of hot water even if you do not order it, but some restaurants do not serve it. However, there are some restaurants that do not serve soba-yu. In such restaurants, you should ask for soba-yu.
Sobayu is served in the same buckwheat cup in which the soba sauce was placed. Drinking sobayu helps digestion, and the warm sobayu warms the stomach and makes you feel satisfied.
If there is only a little bit of soba-tsuyu left in the buckwheat cup, you can drink the soba-tsuyu by pouring it directly into the cup. However, if there is a lot of soba-tsuyu left in the cup, it may be too salty, so you should ask the shopkeeper to give you a bowl to divide the soba-tsuyu.
Soba-tsuyu is very tasty when it is diluted with soba-tsuyu to the proper consistency.
To make soba-tsuyu, kaeshi, a well-balanced mixture of soy sauce and sugar, is left to stand for a long time, and then soup stock made by boiling down a lot of dried bonito flakes is added. The secret to the deliciousness that only a soba restaurant can offer lies in this soba-tsuyu.
