Do you know how to eat Soba (Japanese buckwheat noodle)?

This is true manner of soba eating.

1. You should order "Zaru-soba" or "Mori-soba".  Zaru and Mori are almost same.  This is served water cold noodle on a bamboo sieve basket.
   Why? Because "Zaru-soba" will teach us true taste and smell of soba.  Soba flavor is a very few.  You will say Zaru is tasteless!  If you say so, you cannot understand Japanese taste.  You only know Japanese food as healthy.

2. Zaru will be served with soy and dried bonito based sauce.  And you can see small piece of scallion and wasabi.  Almost Japanese put  scallion and wasabi into sauce. But I don't recommend it. Why? Because these spice will kill delicate flavor of Soba.  I'll mention after about it.

3. At first, you should bring several plain Soba noodle to your mouth.  Can you feel fresh soba flavor and little sweet taste? This taste is very delicate.  Most important thing, you must suck in your mouth soba with air noise.  I know noise sucking in is very impolite.  But you cannot feel soba taste.  Sucking is very effective method of tasting.  When sommelier evaluate wine, they sip wine.  This process is flavor mix to air and bring taste to nose. 

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Do you know how to eat Sushi?

This is true rule of sushi eating.

You should not use chopstick, you can eat sushi by your hand.  Sushi is made small piece for easy to take by hand.

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Good Soba restaurant in NY
"Sobaya" 229 East 9th Street

Thank you to allow my imperfect English.  could you advice me odd point.  taka_tate@yahoo.co.jp