Kakiage Soba (Noodle)

Soba (Noodle) is one of the most loved noodles, other than Ramen and Udon. Generally, people from western part of Japan including me like Udon better and those from eastern prefer Soba to Udon.
One reason is the soup.
Soup for Soba is darker and more salty because of soy souce. I think this dark soup match Soba so well.

Anyway, the picture is a set of Soba and rice when I traveled to Tokyo. As I expected, the soup was dark and salty. On the top of Soba, the fried stuff is a fry of mixture called Kakiage so that this set is called Kakiage Soba.
Kakiage is a mixture of samll shrimps, chopped scallops and cubed vegetables. It is fried, but not mixed tempura.

You can try many types of Soba or Udon conbo with rice or just a noodle.