The making of a zaru soba meal. Do try this at home.

Soba:

1) Buy a pack of zaru soba i.e. "ざるそば" in Japanese , "buckwheat noodles" in English, from any Korean minimart or Japanese mart if you like... and the sauce for soba (got that from the Korean minimart). Mine's fish-flavoured.

2)Boil water and put in your soba sticks and make sure it is soft enough to prevent indigestion.

3)Drain the water and rinse your soba a few times, cold tap water will do.

4)Put some ice cubes onto your soba or chuck the bowl of soba into the fridge (which is the easiest!)

Sauce:

1)Mix 2 parts of sauce, 5 parts of water into a small cup and stir kau-kau and taste. If it's not enough pour in more sauce.....

Chow-time:

1)Take out your soba and get your chopsticks ready.

2) Dip your soba into the sauce and enjoy!