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One of Japan’s oldest soba parlors, Sarashina Horii, is now serving chilly piles of cold buckwheat noodles in Manhattan, a boon for a city that, against all logic, seems to prefer heartier bowls ...

Soba noodles with shredded vegetables and ginger-shallot sauce. June 24, 2014. Save. Log in, register or subscribe to save recipes for later. You have reached your maximum number of saved items.

My bamboo sieve of soba noodles comes with a set of verbal instructions. “First, taste the noodle on its own.” She mimics picking up the noodles with the chopsticks and eating them.