When work gets so busy it gives me a headache, I have to step out for some fresh air no matter how little time I have. Not that I can just drop what I’m doing and run off, but helping out with work in a different area can’t hurt, right?
So, using an outside errand as an excuse, I headed to Ippuku, a soba shop that’s fairly well known around here.
My companion had the duck soba
Generous portion, and very satisfying.
I had the tempura soba
Soba just has to come with tempura… there, I said it, like a true middle-aged guy with a growing belly. It’s a shop the locals rate, but it’s not national-level. The tempura skills and the ingredients are a bit weak. It’s good enough to swing by now and then when you’re craving soba, and that’s about it.
Close-up of the soba
They use the local soba, and the noodles are nice and rugged.
They even give you a quail egg like this
Though it doesn’t really do much beyond looking nice…