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We try cold soba with a creamy and delicious soy milk broth. It’s better than it sounds!

Dale Roll
Dec 15, 2018
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An unlikely pairing makes for delightful flavoring, and it’s vegetarian-friendly too!

Japan
(Asakusa • Maguro Soba • soba • soy milk • vegetarian • vegetarian cuisine)

Japanese udon noodle-flavor tortilla chips are the latest delicious way to multi-task snack

Casey Baseel
Nov 22, 2018

Or, if you’re in the mood for something less crunchy, there’s the option of tempura soba-flavor popcorn.

Japan
(COK • food • instant noodles • Maru-chan • Noodles • popcorn • potato chips • soba • tortilla chips • udon)

Maguro sushi meets soba noodles for a one-of-a-kind, unbelievably delicious combo in Tokyo

Casey Baseel
Nov 13, 2018

This Asakusa restaurant has two of Japan’s greatest foods, paired in a way nobody ever did before, and the result is amazing.

Japan
(Asakusa • COK • food • Noodles • restaurants • sashimi • SNOJ • soba • sushi • Tokyo • tuna.maguro)

We eat at the legendary Negidon, a Tokyo soba restaurant that’s only open for lunch on weekdays

Dale Roll
Nov 3, 2018

Their location is also pretty inconvenient, so is their leek and meat soba worth calling in sick for?

Japan
(COK • food • Noodles • restaurants • SNOJ • soba)

Food fight(ers)! Japanese artist turns food samples into fantastic instant noodle samurai

Richard Simmonds
Sep 1, 2018

These plastic warriors are trawling for a brawling, cruising for a bruising, and sampling for a trampling.

Japan
(art • cool • Donbei • funny • instant noodles • Nissin • Noodles • samurai • soba • udon • weird)

Michelin-approved Motenashi Kuroki in Akihabara serves salt soba that stuns and satisfies

Katy Kelly
Jun 13, 2018

Our Japanese-language reporter heads to Akihabara to see why this bowl of noodles scored its creators a Bib Gourmand, and leaves both stuffed and smiling.

Japan
(Bib Gourmand • COK • food • Michelin Guide • ramen • SNOJ • soba)

We track down a special dish hidden inside Yodobashi Akihabara 【SoraNews24 Taste Test】

Oona McGee
Feb 7, 2018

If you know where to look, you’ll be able to try a jugful of noodles that nobody wanted the owner to create.

Japan
(Akihabara • izakaya • LOL • Mr. Sato • Noodles • otsukimi • SNJO • soba • taste test • Yodobashi)

Tokyo Comic-Con wasn’t just fun, it was delicious, and here’re our top picks from its food booths

Meg Murphy
Dec 7, 2016

With things like sumo-wrestlers’ hot pot and beef sushi, the event was a feast for all of the senses!

Japan
(chanko • food • hot pot • soba • sushi • Tokyo Comic-Con)

Tom Hanks visits Japan, blends in with oyaji at restaurant in Tokyo

Oona McGee
Sep 20, 2016

Find out where the Hollywood movie star took this silly selfie after the break!

Japan, USA
(cute • funny • hollywood • Japanese cuisine • LOL • movies • oyaji • restaurants • selfie • selfies • soba • Tokyo • Tom Hanks • tourism • tourist spots • travel • twitter)

Wasabi and salt flavored instant soba released to help cope with summer heat

Master Blaster
Aug 19, 2016

Because nothing cools you down better than the intense burning sensation of wasabi.

Japan
(Ace Cook • instant noodles • soba • wasabi)

We check out Kawaichi, a crazy good soba shop in Akihabara

Mike
Aug 18, 2016

The shop is a bit of a walk from the station, but the superb soba at this Akihabara eatery is worth the trip.

Japan
(Akihabara • food • soba)

【Mr. Sato Wisdom】”Anyone who doesn’t take home their disposable chopsticks is a damn fool!”

Master Blaster
Jul 27, 2016

They say there’s a fine line between genius and madness. It’s a line that our Mr. Sato frequently walks.

Japan
(chopsticks • lifehack • Mr. Sato • Mr. Sato Wisdom • P.K. Sanjun • soba)

Can you tell which of these are instant noodles and which are cakes from an amazing Tokyo bakery?

Casey Baseel
Jul 15, 2016

Sure, you’ll want to eat them all, but which ones are the desserts?

Japan
(cakes • cool • crazy • food • Noodles • soba • sweets • udon • weird)

113-year-old soba noodle restaurant closes in Tokyo due to heartbreaking development

Oona McGee
Jul 11, 2016

The poster explaining the reason for the closure of the family-run business is breaking hearts around the internet.

Japan
(Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • Noodles • shops • soba • Tokyo • tradition)

New Japanese dish combines two summertime greats – soba noodles and kakigori shaved ice

Oona McGee
Jul 7, 2016

Now you can enjoy your main dish and dessert together in one meal.

Japan
(cool • dining • food • Hankyu Soba Wakana • Hyogo • kakigori • Noodles • Osaka • restaurants • shaved ice • soba • summer • udon)

Japanese restaurant serves up noodles in stunning ice cube bowls

Oona McGee
Jun 18, 2016

Sometimes there are restaurants you want to keep a secret all to yourself, and this is definitely one of them.

Culture, Food & Drink, Japan
(Arashiyama • ice • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • Kyoto • Noodles • restaurants • soba • summer • udon)

Our reporters Mr. Sato and Yoshio go chasing their youths at a noodle vending machine 【Pictures】

Krista Rogers
Jun 11, 2016

Noodle soup for the soul…served by a machine!

Culture, Food & Drink, Internet, Japan
(Iwakuni • Mr. Sato • Noodles • nostalgic • pictures • soba • travel • udon • vending machines • Yamaguchi)

Check if you have a soba allergy with these amazing ukiyoe-print temporary tattoos!

Preston Phro
May 10, 2016

Finding out you can’t eat soba stinks — but at least this is the coolest way to get bad news!

Culture, Entertainment, Food & Drink, Japan, News
(allergies • buckwheat • soba • temporary tattoos • ukiyo-e • ukiyoe)

Want some carbs with your carbs? Japanese noodle restaurant offering bread soba

Casey Baseel
Mar 16, 2016

Yakisoba bread is pretty common at Japanese bakeries, but this is the first time we’ve ever heard of bread soba.

Food & Drink, Japan
(bakeries • bread • food • Noodles • restaurants • soba • weird)

Saga Prefecture’s hidden gem of a soba restaurant offers scrumptious, full course soba meals

Krista Rogers
Jan 21, 2016

A soba restaurant tucked away in the mountains of Saga Prefecture is known for every one of its menu items making use of the soba (buckwheat) plant.