Dried soba noodles, pale from being sun-dried on a rack.
Soba is a pale grey, close to beige.
It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and very unsaturated.
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Soba are Japanese noodles made from buckwheat flour, with varying amounts of wheat flour mixed in. It has an ashen brown color, and a slightly grainy texture. The noodles are served either chilled with a dipping sauce, or hot in a noodle soup. They are used in a wide variety of dishes.
Read on WikipediaSoba is an archaeological site and former town in what is now central Sudan. It was the capital of the medieval Nubian kingdom of Alodia from the sixth century until around 1500. E. A. Wallis Budge identified it with a group of ruins on the Blue Nile 19 kilometres (12 mi) from Khartoum, where there are remains of a Meroitic temple that had been converted into a Christian church.
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