What is this Japanese summer dish?
Food to Beat the Heat Do you wonder what Japanese people are eating during summertime? There are some dishes which are commonly eaten during the hot time. I can safely say the most popular food in the summer is cold noodles. There are many kinds of cold noodles, so I will introduce some of them. Hiyashi chuka This is made with cold ramen noodles. Many restaurants or ramen shops add hiyashi chuka to their menu during the summer. Cold ramen noodles are topped with different ingredients and cold soup. Somen / Hiyamugi / Hiyashi Udon Somen, hiyamugi, and udon are made by kneading wheat flour and salt. Somen and hiyamugi are very similar noodles. Both are very thin (about 1 mm wide), but somen is thinner than hiyamugi. There are square-shaped and round-shaped somen/hiyamugi. Udon has the thickest noodles in this kind. After boiling these noodles and cooling them, they are eaten by dipping them into soy sauce based soup called men-tsuyu. You can purchase a bottle of men-tsuyu or make it by m
