freckles; buckwheat chaff
yakisoba; fried noodles, usu. with vegetables and meat
zaru soba (soba served on a bamboo draining basket with dipping sauce)
soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles
soba in hot broth; soba without any trimmings
soba noodles in broth served continuously so that the guest or customer never has an empty bowl
buckwheat dumpling; buckwheat mash; buckwheat dough ball
ambulatory evening vendor of noodles (or the noodles themselves)
soba water; water left in the pot after one has boiled soba
chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce
soba made from freshly harvested buckwheat
soba and rice cooked together along with meat, vegetables, etc. on a metal plate
soba given to one's new neighbors after moving in
soba noodles eaten at night on New Year's Eve
soba stall with a stand-up counter only; standing soba noodle restaurant; stand-up soba noodle bar
100% buckwheat soba; soba made from buckwheat flour only, without the addition of wheat flour
soba made from freshly harvested buckwheat
soba made with only buckwheat flour
soba made with two parts wheat flour to eight parts buckwheat flour
yabu soba; green-colored soba made from buckwheat flour milled with green buckwheat berry chaff
soba in hot broth, topped with a salty-sweet dried herring
Chinese noodles (esp. ramen)
soba with various vegetables, seafood, and meat
soba eaten at the end of the month (esp. at the end of the year)
soba with broth poured over it
soba with broth poured over it
ambulatory evening vendor of noodles (or the noodles themselves)
Okinawa soba (thick noodles served in a pork soup)
warm soba noodles (esp. for dipping, either served after being boiled, or cooled and then rewarmed)
soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc.