Common Grains Soba Pop-Up at Soba-Ya, Torrance CA

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The newly-opened Soba-Ya in Torrance CA

How much is that plastic soba in the window?

Crispy fried soba noodles

Fresh, uncooked, handmade soba

Cooking individual servings of soba

Scrubbing the starch from the cooked soba

Chilling the soba prior to serving

Chef Mutsuko Soma plates the soba on the zaru

Mushrooms for the accompanying tsuyu

Adding dashi to the mushrooms

Finishing the tsuyu with a dash of white truffle oil

Soba-Ya

Soba with mushroom and white truffle tsuyu

Soba with a walnut sauce and traditional tsuyu

Adding the sobayu to the remainder of the tsuyu

Taiyaki with red bean paste

The Common Grains traveling exhibition

More foods and serving items in the Common Grains exhibition

Morozoff rice cookies

Grains of rice pepper a Morozoff rice cookie