KANAZAWA—Close to 900 people suffered from food poisoning after eating at a “nagashi somen” restaurant in Tsubata, Ishikawa Prefecture. Nagashi somen is a practice in which customers use chopsticks to ...

Somen are a Japanese summer noodle favorite. The thin noodles are typically enjoyed chilled and then dipped into tsuyu sauce, but they are also sometimes served as nagashi-somen. Nagashi-somen sees ...

Ebisu's Somen Sososo is going luxe with a new outpost inside the recently opened Hibiya Okuroji commercial complex, located underneath the train tracks between Yurakucho and Shinbashi stations. Somen ...

He releases the noodles into a stream of water that is flowing down a 1.5m-long bamboo chute. We three are seated at the opposite end, and, as the noodles slide swiftly toward us, we plunge our ...

Somen is a staple food of summer in Japan. A simple dish of noodles, often chilled with ice cubes, dipped into a cool tsuyu broth and eaten with light, refreshing toppings like green onions and grated ...

With all the squeals and slurping over ramen recently you’d be forgiven for not having Japan’s ‘other’ superb farinaceous offerings on your radar. Soba, udon and somen are equally adored, if not more ...

Tai, Red Snapper, 2 if medium size, 1 if large size 2 cups Aloha shoyu 1 cup mirin 1 cup Japanese sake 1 cup water 3-4 slices of ginger 2 ume boshi 1 green onion 4 servings of boiled somen noodles ...

Hot and humid Japanese summers call for light, refreshing ‘stamina’ foods to help you keep your cool. These very fine wheat noodles are served cold, sometimes over ice with a salty dipping sauce on ...

Ramen, udon and soba noodle joints are legion in Tokyo, but this just might be the city's only eatery dedicated to somen, the thin flour noodles that are usually served cold. Flavours include pollock ...