Instant Soba Just Like Okinawa Soba
Moritsuke Sohki Soba

Date：04, Feb, 2012
Investigated and Written by Misaka Youhei
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Okinawa soba is a traditionally local food in Okinawa prefecture. Though it is a type of soba, no buckwheat flour is used for making. Visiting Okinawa for sightseeing or shopping, you can easily taste Okinawa soba everywhere. But will there be the noodle in instant food form?

The answer is quite yes. By major companies to the other companies, there are many kinds of instant Okinawa soba. However, each and every instant soba seems to have no roots in the taste of Okinawa or too typical of instant food. They all appear to do by halves.

Meanwhile, there is an instant product which can be recognized as Okinawa soba-like. It is Moritsuke Sohki soba manufactured by San Shokuhin Company Limited.

Sohki means stewed pork spare ribs in Okinawa, Japan. Originally it implies the sieve in Ryukyu and the pork ribs look like sieves. Then people have called stewed pork spare ribs Sohki, they say.

San Shokuhin Company Limited is an instant noodle manufacturing company in Itoman city, Okinawa, Japan. Established in 1968 and they have manufactured a lot of noodle products and have been very popular in the prefecture.

It goes without mentioning that Sohki are delicious, noodles taste very stable and that has been outstanding other types of instant Okinawa soba with making it very Okinawa soba-like. Please try once for easy enjoyment.