Cold Somen Noodles Recipe - Andrew Zimmern

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup thinly sliced scallions
• 1/4 cup loosely packed thinly sliced or torn nori
• 1/2 pound somen or buckwheat noodles
• 2 cups chilled homemade dashi*
• 2 tablespoons white tamari (sometimes also called white soy sauce)
• 2 teaspoons sake
• 4 tablespoons mirin
• 3 teaspoons liquid shio koji (Hanamaruki makes a great one)
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce (I typically use a very light colored usukuchi soy sauce for this, it’s a cooking soy sauce with very complex flavors)
• 2 quarts water
• 5 six inch squares of dried kelp (kombu)
• 1 cup tightly packed katsuoboshi (dried bonito flakes), also sometimes called hana katsuo