Our staff think like our customers.
All kinds of people visit our website and request samples.
Our customers include the businessman already running a soba restaurant, the hopeful planning to open an udon restaurant, and the challenger aspiring to create an entirely new flavor.
We are committed to great taste.
We insist on our own unique flavor.
I have heard these requests numerous times from customers.
Those who visit the Kobayashi Foods website, and this includes yourself, are experts when it comes to taste. At first, we didn’t understand it ourselves.
Now, I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about us.
Our unique process for creating delicious, genuine katsubushi
We have handled over 1,000 tons of katsuobushi, consulting with soba restaurant owners and protecting the long-standing reputations of Japan’s leading food companies. However, 20 years ago, we knew nothing.
We have made it this far thanks to what our customers have taught us.
But before we could get to this point, there was one thing we had to do to earn our customers’ trust. There was one particular problem which we had to overcome.
We are professionals when it comes to making katsuobushi.
Honestly, we had prided ourselves in our katsuobushi expertise, until one of our customers told us, “I can’t get rid of the fishy taste of your broth.”
We were told, “I can’t get rid of the fishy taste of your broth.”
While we were confident in our ability to make katsuobushi, we hadn’t given a second thought to what happened after we delivered that katsuobushi to our customers. I can remember how shocked I was that day.
Day in and day out, we devoted ourselves to making katsuobushi, and making broth from that katsuobushi.
As the days became months, we continued making katsuobushi and tasting the resulting broth.
One day, we discovered a new method of making katuobushi using far infrared radiation to alter the taste of the broth.
With our new, original method, we were able to eliminate the fishy taste of the broth.
At that moment, everything changed.
Actually, when we first proposed this method, the people around us cast funny looks in our direction.
However, when we drank the broth made from the katsuobushi produced using our original method, there was no fishy taste. We took the katsuobushi to the owner of a certain restaurant,and he was extremely pleased, telling us,
“The broth I made this morning was excellent. I’m going to keep using this.”
Our katsuobushi had been praised by a chef committed to genuine, great taste.
Currently, our katsuobushi is used by 255 establishments across Japan, from major soba chains to makers of mentsuyu noodle dipping sauce (of which katsuobushi broth is a main ingredient), to local soba restaurants. We also export to customers in Russia and Taiwan who put their trust in the flavor of Kobayashi Foods, and we are engaged in negotiations with an overseas restaurant.
Our recommended katsuobushi for udon and soba noodles
Thick Skipjack Tuna Shavings（No.601）
Thick bonito strips, made with thick shavings of smoke-dried bonito.
Natural Japanese-style soup stock is added.
Thick Auxis Shavings（No.611）
We used auxis from Tosashimizu, Kochi, which has been used since the olden days. You can use it for “soba dashi.”
Thick Fermented Auxis Shavings（No.631）
These thick fermented auxis shavings have a dark color and produce a rich dashi. You can savor a robust dashi for soba by mixing these shavings with mackerel.
Thick Honkarebushi Shavings（No.651）
You can savor the true flavor of Japan.
The dashi extracted is simple, elegant, and smooth.
In addition, we also accept questions at any time. Please use this opportunity to give it a try.
Please feel free to contact us.
We will respond intelligently.
Kobayashi Foods, a company that has been in the business of making dried bonito products for other businesses for 30 years,
and now handles over 1,000 tons of dried bonito a year.
- Address2154-18, Tajiri, Yaizu-shi, Shizuoka,425-0052, Japan
- TEL+81-(0)54-625-2201（Dedicated line） Operator hours: 9:00 – 17:00
- FAX+81-(0)54-625-2202
- MAILinfo@kobayashi-foods.co.jp
