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Tachigui soba tip: Korokke Soba

At a stand up style Soba places, "korokke soba" is reccommended. It is soba in warm broth with deep fried potato croquette on top. How simple is that:)
Price range is somewhere around 300 Yen per dish and it is apparently Tokyo original!

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