ソバハスキデスカー？
駒澤オリンピック公園に来ました。
Good day.
I am still on the journey of dried soba noodles. I am looking for dried soba noodles I have never tried. But buckwheat flour has much carbohyderate and could gain my body weight. I am considering when I quit my journey. I visited Komazawa Olympic Park, by the way.
It was cloudy and not hot on that day but not comfortable because of high moisture level.
駒沢公園って大きいんですね。スポーツをしている人がたくさんいました。
The Komazawa Olympic Park was very large and there were many people who enjoyed various sports there.
でも目的はスポーツじゃなくて「The 乾麺グランプリ in Tokyo 2024」です。2018年にも一度来ました！
The Dried Noodle Grand Prix in Tokyo 2024. Thank you Citaro-san for letting me know the event. 36 dried soba noodle makers was having a booth to serve their noodle dish, not only soba noodles but also ramen noodles, udon noodles and somen noodles. I visited the 2nd Dried Noodle Grand Prix in 2028.
もちろん僕の興味は干しそば。蕎麦だけ紹介します。
「栃尾の油揚げ」で作った冷しきつねへぎそば
I am interested in soba noodles. Let me introduce only soba noodle exhibitions.
Cold Kitsune Soba Noodles with Tochio-age, by Jinenjo Soba Corporation.
黒い太切り蕎麦の生春巻き～海老と彩り野菜～
Raw Spring Roll with shrimps, vegetables and BLACK 8, by Karakida flour Corporation.
信州産みどり大根おろし戸隠そば牛たんとろろ添え
Cold soba noodles with grated green radish, grated yam and grilled beef tongue, by Obinata corporation.
徳島を味わう！「阿波尾鶏」と「すだち」の冷やしぶっかけ祖谷（いや）そば
Cold soba noodles with grilled chicken (brand name is Awaodori) and sudachi Japanese citrus, by Okamoto noodle corporation.
野菜を食べる旨辛ビビン出雲そば
Spicy bibim Izumo soba noodles with vegetables, by Honda Shoten.
炙り一本角煮のコク旨まぜそば。ここが蕎麦で一番人気でした。
This was the most popular booth in soba noodles. Rich soba noodles with simmered pork belly, by Kikkoman corporation. It seems that Kikkoman won the competition the fourth and third Grand Prix in soba noodle category.
新食感！角煮入りふわふわとろっと月見そば
Cold soba noodles with half boiled egg, simmered pork belly and whipped something white, by Hakubaku corporation.
食べたのは、
「阿波尾鶏」と「すだち」の冷やしぶっかけ祖谷（いや）そば
さっぱり美味しい！
I ate two bowls of soba noodles.
Cold soba noodles with grilled chicken (brand name is Awaodori) and sudachi Japanese citrus, by Okamoto noodle corporation. It was good but I felt the soba noodles were boiled very long minutes ago and were kept. Soba noodle is delicate and difficult to keep its quality after boiled.
よなよなエールで小休止。
やっぱり蕎麦は人気薄ですね💦
There were a lot of people there. I was very happy that this kind of dried noodle event attracted much people. I drank YonaYona Ale. It seemed that something rich noodles like ramen noodles were popular and soba noodle booths were less popular. Most of soba noodle booth gave us an extra service, it showed that they had much remains of ingredients and they wanted to consume them as possible, I thought.
角煮入りふわふわとろっと月見そば
Cold soba noodles with half boiled egg, simmered pork belly and whipped something white. It was not bad but not better. I should have eaten something else.
干しそばアンバサダーDEENボーカルの池森秀一さんです。
Do you know him?
He is Shuichi Ikemori, a lead vocal of DEEN, who is a big fan and advocator of dried soba noodles. I didn't see him but I saw Yamane-san who is a keyboard player of DEEN.
物販で白い太切り蕎麦を買いました～
The shop sold dried noodle products and related products. There were few I was interested in. I bought only white thick sliced soba noodles produced by Karakida noodle corporation.
渋谷は相変わらず大混雑でした～
I changed the train at Shibuya Station. Shibuya was crazy crowded as usual.
今日も頑張りましょう！
Thank you for reading. Have a nice day!