Soba noodles with wakame

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By Yotam Ottolenghi

Published 2010

  • About

In 2009 I travelled to Tokyo with the sole purpose of eating. I have always liked Japanese food but this time I was blown away, completely taken over by food and by the fact that the Japanese, like no other culture that I know of, are all foodies. It was fantastic being in the company of so many who, just like me, are willing to queue for ever for the best sponge cake in the world, the finest slice of raw fish or the greatest soba noodles. The latter I tasted, along with dozens of bu