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By Peter Gordon
Published 2010
Green tea noodles (called cha soba in Japan) are a firm favourite of mine. They are the most gorgeous colour and they have a lovely firm texture and subtle earthy flavour. If you can’t find any, use plain soba noodles instead. Soba (the Japanese word for buckwheat) noodles are made with varying percentages of buckwheat flour and wheat flour - the latter giving them elasticity. However, the most expensive soba in Japan are made from 100 per cent buckwheat and they’re more britt