Sobaya, a Japanese restaurant in the East Village that makes its soba noodles and serves them in more than two dozen ways, has just introduced dried soba noodles to take home. The restaurant also sells a special soba sauce, with a soy-sauce base and plenty of umami, to toss on the needle-thin buckwheat pasta, served hot or cold.
Dried Soba, $6.75 for 8.8 ounces; soba sauce, $13 for 8.8 ounces; gift set: two packages of noodles and a bottle of sauce, $30.50, sobaya-nyc.com.
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