soba cooking water; water from boiling soba
The starchy water left after boiling soba noodles. Often served as a drink at the end of a soba meal, sometimes mixed with dipping sauce.
At soba restaurants, I like to drink the soba cooking water after the meal.
It's delicious to add a little leftover dipping sauce to the soba water and drink it.
Standard kanji-kana mixed spelling.
Full kanji spelling; less common but still seen.
Compound of そば (soba, buckwheat noodles) and 湯 (yu, hot water).