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Cold Soba with Shiso Dipping Sauce by Lilyan Singapore, from Tokyo

I like trying food with interesting sauces, so when I saw that a soba noodle specialist from Roppongi, Tokyo had set up shop in Singapore and was offering shiso dipping sauce for cold soba noodles as a Singapore exclusive menu item, I was eager to try. It is both uncommon, yet also traditional as shiso is a very authentic Japanese flavour. I ordered the dish very simply - just plain cold soba with the dipping sauce. The overall aesthetics were very pleasing. I loved the Japanese wabisabi-style ceramics and the bamboo soba strainer, which enhanced the authentic feel.  The wooden tag reads "juwari soba", which means 100% buckwheat soba noodles. As you can see, the dipping sauce was a basil green. It really reminded me of the Hakka thunder tea rice basil soup in appearance. So it seems they used the green variety instead of the red shiso.

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