Wednesday, October 16, 2024
On Sunday, October 13th from 10:00 to 14:00, the Soba Shokuraku Club Hokuryu will be holding a "New Soba Enjoyment Party" at the Soba Making Exchange Center (formerly the Iwamura District Community Center)!
New Soba Enjoyment Party 2024
Soba Shokuraku Club Hokuryu (Chairman: Nakamura Shoichi)
The soba enthusiasts' circle "Soba Shokuraku Hokuryu (Chairman: Nakamura Shoichi)" will be showcasing their skills. Enjoy freshly made new soba noodles (Kitawase buckwheat flour produced in Hokuryu) that are hand-made on the spot that day!
The Hokuryu Soba Shokuraku Club (Chairman: Nakamura Shoichi), a circle of soba lovers in Hokuryu Town, was founded on April 4, 2004, and is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. There are currently 26 members (the youngest is 23 years old, the oldest is 79 years old).
This is a soba-making club that has been certified by Zenmenkyo (National Council for Promoting Regional Exchange of Noodle Culture), and is made up of Chairman Nakamura Shoichi, a sixth-dan soba maker, Ms. Kawabe Mitsue, a fifth-dan maker, and many other members with ranks (eight fourth-dan, eight third-dan, seven second-dan, several first-dan, etc.), who practice every month and enjoy making soba noodles.
Hokuryu soba masters will be showing off their skills to allow many residents to taste the deliciousness of this year's new soba, "Kitawase," produced in Hokuryu.
The venue was packed with customers
At the reception desk at the entrance, a line of people eagerly awaits the fresh soba.
All the tables prepared inside the building were already full with families!
"New soba has a rich soba aroma, is smooth and easy to swallow, and is very delicious with its thin noodles! We look forward to Hokuryu's new soba every year," said the townspeople, smiling as they savored the food!
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The menu includes mori soba, kake soba, tempura (sweet potato, maitake mushroom, lotus root), kakiage, etc. Take-out fresh noodles (serves 4) are also available.
The new soba noodles are carefully hand-made on the spot!
Principal Sadao Kamata of Shinryu Elementary School is also very busy.
Mr. Sadao Kamata, principal of Hokuryu Town Shinryu Elementary School and a member of the Soba Shokuraku Club Hokuryu, is also very busy!!!
With boundless love, gratitude, and prayers, we offer the Hokuryu Town "New Soba Appreciation Party" a relaxing time to savor the deliciousness of "freshly picked!", "freshly made!", and "freshly boiled!" new soba noodles produced in Hokuryu Town together with the townspeople.
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◇ Interview and text: Ikuko Terauchi (Photography and editing assistance: Noboru Terauchi)
