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January 26, 2013

Cocoron Soba - NYC

Cocoron is a tiny soba (Japanese buckwheat noodles) shop in the Bowery neighborhood. Cocoron means "heartwarming", and as we walked in hungry at almost 10p.m. on that cold January evening, it provided just that. The place was inconspicuous and we missed it as we walked in front.


It has only about a dozen seats, mostly around a counter overlooking the small open kitchen. Although it was rather late, the place was almost full. We were lucky to have 2 seats at the counter without having to wait.



We were sitting about one meter from the stove, so it was very hot. Although the owners are Japanese, the staff despite shouting "gozaimasu" each time a diner walked in, spoke another language (Nepali? Tibetan?) among themselves.


Green tea. It's only at the end of our meal that we realized that we had to ask the waitress for more hot water for refills.


Kasiwa Soba with chicken thigh, chicken meatballs, Shiitake mushrooms and scallion


Tororo Wakame Soba with tororo, wakame seaweeds and scallion




The soba was excellent. Had they not been so slow, we would have shared an additional bowl. There was only one inconvenience however with Cocoron: since the place is so small and we were literally eating in the kitchen, our clothes picked up all the strong cooking smells. As we left, we just wanted to rush to our hotel to shower, so Cocoron is definitely not the dinner place before a night out.


Cocoron
http://cocoron-soba.com/

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