I think the best Udon (wheat flour noodle) we can eat in Tokyo is Katokichi' frozen Udon from a supermarket. A few months ago, my friends brought us dried udon noodles by Mino noodles factory (in Japanese) from Kagawa prefecture. It seems like these hand kneaded noodles were dried out naturally and I've never seen these before. And the interesting thing was these noodles have to be cooked for 25 minutes!

After 25 minutes cooking, the noodles became shiny and perfectly bouncy texture. I have to tell our friends living outside of Japan who have to eat gooey noodles, and people who believe these starchy strings are the real Udon noodles, these Sanuki Udon noodles are good! They can be mail ordered outside of Japan too (I guess you have to order in Japanese).