Japanese delicacy in the hot summer Vol. 3 “ZALU SOBA” cold SOBA noodle

⚫️Japanese delicacy in the hot summer Vol. 3 “ZALU SOBA” cold SOBA noodle

Many Japanese, espeaially males, love “ZALU SOBA.”

SOBA is so nutritious gray noodle (I don’t know its English equivalent. Google, please) and taken in either hot soup or cold dipping style spreaded on ZALU banboo sheet.

The latter is the “ZALU SOBA.”

You can eat it by taking SOBA from the ZALU bamboo sheet with wood chopsticks and dipping into a small bowl of cold SOBA TSUYU bouillon.

⚫️How to make ZALU SOBA

1 Prepare apan of boiling water.

2 Put dried or chilled SOBA into 1.

3 Following the instraction of its package (lol), leave 2 more than 2 minutes in the pan.

4 Take out SOBA from the pan and put in a bowl with cold water.

5 Do not spoil the boiled water in the pan because nutritious water of lutein can be served as “SOBA-YU” which SOBA lovers ask SOBA houses to serte as menu.

6 Spread 4 on a ZALU bamboo sheet or bowl.

7 Dip 7 into a cup of special SOBA soup made out of soy sauce and Japanese DAShI bouillon.

8 As options, MYOGA Japanese ginger, OHBA harb leaf, KONEGI onion, and JUNSAI watercress can be used for enhancing the good taste of SOBA.