The soba noodles definitely make the recipe. I followed the recipe almost exactly, with a few tweakings of my own. Omitted the tamari, added in a couple tablespoons of Vietnamese fish sauce and a bag of frozen Asian vegetables -subbed for the red pepper- with some chunks of chicken - it was delicious! Will definitely be making this again.

I found this a little bland.

i really enjoyed this recipe except i made a couple of changes. first off, i wouldn't use as much sesame oil next time. i didn't have tamari sauce so based on another review, i used soy sauce mixed with worcestshire sauce. after mixing it with the noodles, i left some sauce aside because i wanted to cook the carrots a bit. i also added organic fried tofu (it had a bit of sezchuan sauce on it). i fried it up using the remainder of the sauce along with some garlic and ginger and the carrots. when it was ready to serve, i just added it to the dish on top rather than mixing the vegetables together (because of the different temperatures). i'll definitely make this again!

I didn't care too much for this recipe. I followed the instructions exactly but we ended up eating something else. It just had a strange smell and taste to it.

Yummy! Very good recipe. I didn't have tamari sauce, so I used a dark mushroom soya sauce instead. Still turned out very well - loved the sesame seed oil! The flavours definitely taste better after sitting for a while - but I didn't bother dividing up the sauce. I just put the whole thing together at the beginning and let it sit.

Yummy! You can substitute whole wheat spaghetti for the soba.

I enjoyed the flavor of this recipe, but it was a little too oily for me. Next time I will reduce the oil and increase the tamari to add more flavor. Be warned... a pound of soba cooks up to a *lot* of noodles. If you're not sure about this, I suggest trying a half recipe first.

I went to Trader Joe's and purchased Soba noodles and did not know what to do with them. So, I went to this web site and typed in soba noodles and this showed up. Well, I made it for my lunch the next day and really enjoyed it. I will make this again.

I think its SooOoO important that everyone follows the recipe. If you substitute the main ingredient in this recipe which is the SOBA noodles with reg. Spaghetti noodles, you are making a totally diff. dish. I think people should follow the recipe the 1st time around and tweak if they wish the second time around. Its not fair to the person submitting the recipe to get low ranks if you dont follow their recipe.Specially like using a completly different noodles. Soba is a gray buckwheat noodle that has a very different taste then rice noodles or reg spagehtti noodles.

I had run out of tamari so I used worchestershire and cut way back on the 1/4 C... same with the sesame oil, I'm on a diet! But this is a good quick lunch, and something you can be creative with.

Did not care for this and will probably throw most of it away. I made it for my husband and I last night, followed the recipe exactly with all of the correct ingredients. I was also looking for a tasty cold Chinese noodle salad, this wasn't it for us. Didn't care for the sauce.

This was fabulous Juanita! Didn't have any soba noodles so I subbed with Ramen. Due to allergies, I had to omit the carrots but used matchstick size cucs instead, along with some savoy cabbage. To make it a complete meal, I surrounded the platter with thinly sliced leftover london broil and grilled chicken. I made extra sauce to marinade my chicken in and it came out wonderfully. Absolutely delicious recipe and my family thanks you!

This is good as it is, but the fresh carrots came out too raw. Next time I will blanch them. I didn't have red bellpepper so instead added a cucumber cut into matchstick size just before serving. Fresh cucumber seems to balance out the saltiness of soy sauce. It makes great color contrast too!

I thought this was good, but my husband did not like the sesame oil flavor. I think it is an acquired taste. If you like sesame oil, you will probably like this dish.

Not what I expected....I was looking for a really fabulous cold noodle recipe and this wasnt it...I think the potential is there but I threw a huge bowl of this out. I think it was my own fault...I used 1 lb. of extra thin rice noodles instead of the soba noodles. It was my first time making and tasting rice noodles...and I hated the taste of them. My thought is that the recipe would have been better with thin spaghetti. Noone liked it or ate it..into the trash. Sorry.