{"product_id":"iya-juwari-soba-from-tokushima","title":"Iya Juwari Soba from Tokushima","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"cg-pdp\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cg-lead\"\u003eA soba made the hard way — 100% buckwheat, no wheat, and not a single grain of salt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Iya Valley of Tokushima, one of Japan's three great hidden regions, fields cling to mountainsides too steep for rice — so buckwheat became the grain of daily life, and soba its quiet craft. Okamoto Seimen has been making noodles nearby since 1947, and this is their most uncompromising one: true \u003cem\u003ejuwari\u003c\/em\u003e soba, dried without salt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHighlights\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% buckwheat, milled from stone-ground Tokushima flour — true \u003cem\u003ejuwari\u003c\/em\u003e, with no wheat binder.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade with zero added salt — a technique most makers consider impossible for dried soba.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNaturally gluten-free in its ingredients; the flavor of the buckwheat itself carries the bowl.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShipped directly from Okamoto Seimen in Tokushima — not from a US warehouse.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"cg-acc\"\u003e\n\u003cdetails open=\"\"\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eDetails, ingredients \u0026amp; allergens\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIngredients:\u003c\/strong\u003e buckwheat flour (stone-ground, Ishii, Tokushima). Nothing else.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSodium:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0g — no salt is used in the noodle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens:\u003c\/strong\u003e buckwheat. \u003cstrong\u003eMay contain wheat and yam\u003c\/strong\u003e (shared facility).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e Iya, Tokushima\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNet weight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200g (about 2 servings) · shelf-stable for about 1 year\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eProducer's story\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOkamoto Seimen has made noodles in Tokushima since 1947 — nearly eighty years beside the Yoshino River. Most dried soba leans on salt and wheat flour to hold the noodle together; Okamoto spent years refining a way to need neither. What remains is the hardest kind of simplicity: buckwheat, water, and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe soba tradition they draw on comes from the Iya Valley — a place of mist, vine bridges, and buckwheat fields on the mountainsides, soba country in the oldest sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eFlavor profile\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith no salt in the noodle, nothing stands between you and the grain: the aroma of buckwheat arrives first, then a gentle sweetness and a clean, earthy finish. It reads not as plainness but as clarity — one ingredient, allowed to speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cdetails open=\"\"\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eCooking ideas\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCook the noodles in plenty of unsalted water for about four minutes, rinse them well in cold water, and taste one strand before anything else — that first plain bite is the whole point. Then make a dipping broth with dashi and a good soy sauce: it seasons the bowl with umami rather than salt, which is exactly how this soba likes to be treated. On a cold evening the same noodles slip into a warm kake soba; whatever is left keeps beautifully for a chilled noodle bowl the next day. And because the noodle itself is pure buckwheat, it is a graceful choice for the gluten-aware table — with the shared-facility note above in mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cg-foot\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eShips from Japan · Order more, pay less per item\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"OKAMOTO-SEIMEN CO., LTD. (岡本製麺株式会社)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48967148536043,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0731\/2520\/0107\/files\/68828ec127875b9e25ec91b72446d329.png?v=1783813531","url":"https:\/\/cookgood.jp\/products\/iya-juwari-soba-from-tokushima","provider":"CookGood.JP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}