Buckwheat Noodles

[traci]

I believe that there are noodles called Soba. I think they are either chinese or japanese... I cannot find any that are pure buckwheat, they all have wheat in them! Does anyone have a source for these?

[sunflower]

Soba is japanese and unfortunately most of the original japanese brands would have about 30% of wheat flour in them, just to prevent the noodles from crumbling apart... This means that if you look for soba in places selling original Asian foodstuff, it could be hard to find soba without wheat added.

I have once seen a 100% buckwheat soba (it said it was 100% buckwheat on the bag) in a natural foods shop. Possibly this is the kind of place to look for it. I haven't tried it, but I guess it would be more crumbly than the "regular" soba.

Good luck!