About GOHEI's Soba
The buckwheat noodle [Soba] is made from buckwheat powder, flour and water.
We use only buckwheat seed cultivated in Japan especially Sinshu, Hokkaido and Ibaraki.
Not only the quality of buckwheat seed but also water are important.
We select Azumino natural water to make Soba.
You can taste these Soba whatever menu you order. We are waiting for you and taste one of the traditional Japanese food.
About buckwheat powder
We have to break hard husk to make buckwheat powder.
Break husk with roller or grinder. We got core of buckwheat seed and some separate piece of buckwheat seed. This time, we got also detailed powder from core. We call it "Hanako" used while making soba.
Roughly grind core of buckwheat seed is colord white. Separate core powder and grind other piecies are colord black.
Nowadays, grind method is the best way to get buckwheat powder. Because grinder generate less heat and we got more detailed powder. Heat breaks flavor of buckwheat.
So, we use grinder.
with roller
with grinder
Element of buckwheat powder
Protein of buckwheat consists of globulin and albumen. These are easy to melt in water.
Buckwheat seed contain top amount of protein amang all cereals
The starch in buckwheat powder contains amylose and amylopectin. These are easy to be digested.
It also contains rutin, vitamin, minerals and fiber.
Hand maid soba
We often use flour to make Soba because buckwheat powder itself is hard to merge.
To feel flavor of bucksheat, we should use flour up to 30%.
Hand maid soba different from machine maid need "talk" with soba. It contains philosophy of soba creator.
The method of making Soba is very simple, but the depth of "Soba way" is so deap that we have to find better way to make Soba.
Arabiki Soba
We bring Soba that was ground roughly so that you can feel very basic sbuckwheat flavor.
We call it "Kikouchi" or "Arabiki" that made from only buchwheat ground roughly and water.
It looks so hard to make Soba with roughly ground powder like sand, but only higly skilled meister can make it.
Arabiki is special one because we can't make much buckwheat powder with handy grinder.
We recommend you to eat with only salt at first time.
The salt we deliver is Deep sea salt {japanese} from Okinawa.
You can feel tasty Soba flavor.
And then, eat it as you like with tuyu, yakumi, etc...
Width : 60㎝ and fold it to 30㎝.
How to eat Soba
Some peaple says "that owner is carping guy" when I'm saying that the manner of eating Soba.
You can eat any Soba as you like but let me say "Eat Soba as quickly as you can".
Arabiki Soba become dry more easily than normal Soba.
If you order 2 plates of Soba, we are watching you and cook second plate when you have eaten first one.
This is little consideration for you to be able to eat Soba with best condition.
So, please concentrate the Soba in front of you.
The best way to eat Soba is that you have Soba-china with tuyu in a hand, then pick up little amount of soba with chopstick on your another hand. Putting Soba to the soba-china about 2/3 to half height of it. Then eat!
Putting all Soba to soba-china is not good.
Normaly, wasabi is put to soba-china with tuyu. but some people try to put wasabi onto Soba directly.
There are various way to eat Soba.
We are using wasabi from Azumino water region [japanese].
Wasabi are rubbed with each order so that you can taste fresh wasabi.
Some people hate hot foods. But if you try wasabi, a new "hot" world will come to you.
Spring onions are mostly derived from around Matsumoto.
In winter, you can also try hot radish from near Matsumoto. If you like hot meals, don't miss out.
Tuyu is always a supporting player but we are making it with excellent food. We save it with best condition to meet you.