what is soba?
Okinawa soba is a type of noodle soup produced in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Okinawa soba is a regional collective trademark of The Okinawa Noodle Manufacturing Co-op. In Okinawa, it is sometimes simply called soba, or suba in many Okinawan dialects, although this word typically refers to buckwheat noodles. The thick wheat noodles resemble udon, while the soup is more similar to that of ramen. The noodles tend to have a circular cross section in the Yaeyama Islands, and tend to be slightly flat