From Demon Slayer: Mugen Train · 2020 · Reconstructed
Grated-Daikon Soba
Serve when
Serve it cool and clean alongside the gyudon — the lighter half of the bento the Hashira works through on the train.
In the movie
Theatrical
- 00:05:19 Rengoku's boxed meal on the Mugen Train also carries soba topped with grated daikon and spring onion — a bright, restrained counterpoint to the rich gyudon, and part of the same joyful onslaught of eating.
Where the gyudon is all comfort and volume, the soba is the palate-cleanser — proof that Rengoku's appetite is a whole balanced meal, savored piece by piece. It's a small, true detail: even in a bento bolted down on a moving train, there's a lighter dish and a richer one, and he honors both.
Ingredients
- For the tsuyu:
Method
- Warm the dashi, soy, and mirin for the dipping sauce, then chill it.
- Boil the soba until just tender, about 4 to 5 minutes (check the package), then rinse under cold water, rubbing the noodles gently to wash off the surface starch, and drain well — cold water is what gives the noodles their snap.
- Pack the soba into a bento box — the lighter half of Rengoku's boxed train meal — or a bamboo tray at home.
- Top with a generous nest of grated daikon and sliced scallion, and lay a few strips of nori over the top.
- Serve with the cold tsuyu for dipping, wasabi on the side.
Substitutions
- Dashi: instant dashi powder is the easy route; a strip of kombu steeped in hot water works, or light chicken broth if authenticity matters less.
- Mirin: sake with a little sugar, or — alcohol-free — rice vinegar with sugar.