type of buckwheat noodles（zyuwarisoba)
unrefined soba (buckwheat noodles)unbleached cloth
Soba made from buckwheat flour alone, without any “binder” such as wheat flour. It is also called “kisoba” or “kiko-uchi. Soba made with 20% wheat flour and 80% buckwheat flour is called nihachi-soba, while buckwheat noodles made with 20% wheat flour and 80% buckwheat flour are called nihachi-soba. Soba flour has little of the stickiness that holds it together as noodles, and making jyuwari-soba requires a great deal of skill. Therefore, wheat flour with gluten, sticky yams, eggs, etc. are generally used as a binder.
