Right smack in the centre of Hokkaido Marche, Soba Maruki offers a selection of tempura to go with the cold soba as well as hot soba. My pick was the hot soba although I had been warned that the noodle would get soft real fast. The thing is - it was extremely soft, considering I didn't take that long to snap some photos. The Iberico pork slices were decent although slightly dry. The broth was pretty good, but that alone wasn't enough to salvage the noodle.