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Japanese love noodles. Soba, thin buckwheat noodles, and udon, thick white wheat noodles, are both served either chilled with a soy-based dip or hot in the form of a noodle soup depending on the season or region. The chilled noodles are called zaru soba ![]() With your chopsticks, take some noodles and dip about half way into the sauce. Do not soak them. Then quickly bring the noodles to your mouth and suck them in! Start with small bites until you master the art of slurping. Two of the most popular hot varieties of soba and udon are interestingly named kitsune |
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A traditional Japanese noodle soup dish introduced from China, ramen
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Such is the lure of tasty ramen that there is even a term for a person that spends most of his days off traveling around the country searching for quality ramen: Ramen otaku . Japanese are particular about their noodles. A ramen order is often followed by the words katame
or yawarakame
, meaning hardish and softish. For big eaters, you can enjoy a free second helping of noodles in certain places by saying kaedama
.