Kawara soba
Kawara soba is a local cuisine which Soba noodles and meat are cooked together on a Kawara
(stone roof tile) and dipped into a special sauce when eating it.
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It is said that the hints were obtained from the time when during the Seinan civil war in 1877,
soldiers of Satsuma who surrounded the Kumamoto castle used kawara (stone roof tiles) to
cook wild plants and meat.



