{"title":"Japanese Ramen","description":"\u003cp\u003eWheat noodles in a seasoned broth, and the broth is the argument: tonkotsu simmered from pork bone until it turns opaque, shoyu built on soy sauce, miso, and clear shio. The cupboard side: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-instant-noodles\"\u003eJapanese Instant Noodles\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nissin-cup-noodle-big-original","title":"Nissin Cup Noodle Big — Japanese Original Soy Sauce, 103g","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Japanese Cup Noodle, in Nissin's bigger cup: the original soy-sauce flavour. It is a savoury shoyu broth built on chicken and pork stock together, edged with garlic and pepper, and five dried toppings sit loose in the cup rather than in a sachet. If you ate this in Japan and have been trying to find it here, this is the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eカップヌードル ビッグ, the name on the pack, so you can check what arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is Nissin's standard Cup Noodle: the flagship recipe, not the lighter reduced-fat version and not the premium Cup Noodle PRO line. Of its three sizes, mini, regular and big, this is the big one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA broth with two stocks in it.\u003c\/strong\u003e Chicken and pork together rather than one or the other, with garlic and pepper behind them and a bamboo-shoot note underneath: savoury and rounded rather than sharp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFive dried toppings, already in the cup.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mince, egg, prawn, pork and spring onion, loose in there. Nothing to tear open and nothing to stir in.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe \"mystery meat\", explained.\u003c\/strong\u003e The brown nuggets are a pork mince made with soy protein. Japanese customers nicknamed them 謎肉 (nazoniku), mystery meat, long before Nissin said what was in them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJapanese pack, Japanese instructions.\u003c\/strong\u003e This is the domestic cup, so what is printed on it is in Japanese.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is a big cup, and opinions differ.\u003c\/strong\u003e Japanese reviewers split between buying it because the regular size leaves them hungry and finding they could not finish it. Worth knowing before you order three.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Nissin declares crustacean (prawn), wheat, egg, milk, sesame and soy, and it is made with pork and chicken. That is the maker's own declaration for this cup, and it is wider than the named ingredients, because the seasonings are not broken down. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree things worth knowing before you buy. \u003cstrong\u003eThis is not the Nissin cup from the supermarket\u003c\/strong\u003e: the ones Coles ranges are seafood and chicken cups, supplied locally and made outside Japan, so the soy-sauce original is a different product rather than a dearer version of the same thing. \u003cstrong\u003eIt is not vegetarian\u003c\/strong\u003e: there is pork, chicken, egg and prawn in it. And \u003cstrong\u003e\"big\" is a real but modest step up\u003c\/strong\u003e: 103 g against the standard cup's 78 g, so roughly 1.3 times as much, not double.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo make it, you need 400 mL of boiling water, poured to the line moulded on the inside of the cup, there is no fill mark on the outside, and then the time printed on the pack, look for a numeral followed by 分, the Japanese character for minutes. A kettle is the only equipment involved. \u003cstrong\u003eDo not microwave it in its own cup.\u003c\/strong\u003e Nissin's own guidance warns of fire risk from the aluminium lid and of the cup deforming; if you must microwave it, tip it into a microwave-safe dish first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne last thing, because it trips up anyone comparing listings: you will see this cup sold as 101 g in plenty of places. Nissin renewed it in August 2025, bigger mince pieces, more toppings, and the weight went to 103 g under the same barcode. 103 g is the current pack, and it is the one we stock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nissin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48223189008610,"sku":"SH-NDL-0001","price":6.29,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/nissin-cup-noodle-big-original-pack.webp?v=1786954840"},{"product_id":"nissin-cup-noodle-seafood-big","title":"Nissin Cup Noodle Seafood BIG — Japanese Instant Ramen Cup, 105g","description":"\u003cp\u003eNissin's seafood cup noodle in the BIG size: the cup sold in Japan, not the smaller version on Australian supermarket shelves. The broth is the cloudy kind, pork and seafood together, rich rather than fishy and closer to a mild chowder than to a ramen shop's soup. Seafood Noodle was the second best-selling cup ramen in Japanese supermarkets in 2024–25; that ranking is for the regular 75 g cup, and this is the BIG: the same recipe in the 105 g cup, 85 g of it noodles. If you had it in Japan and want that exact cup back, this is it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack it reads カップヌードル シーフードヌードル ビッグ. That is just \"Cup Noodle Seafood Noodle Big\" written in Japanese, so you can check the cup that arrives is the right one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCup Noodle comes in three sizes in Japan: Mini, regular and BIG. This is BIG, the largest of the standard cups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is actually floating in it\u003c\/strong\u003e: crab stick, squid, seasoned egg, cabbage and spring onion. The crab stick is kanikama: fish surimi shaped and coloured to look like crab rather than crab meat. Nissin still declares crab as an allergen on it, so if you react to shellfish, treat this as containing crab. Nissin made the pieces bigger in 2025 and put in about 14% more garnish.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNot the supermarket cup\u003c\/strong\u003e: the Nissin seafood cup in Australian supermarkets is a smaller, China-made product. This is the 105 g cup from Nissin's Japanese range, made in Japan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is a meal, not a snack\u003c\/strong\u003e: a 105 g cup, 85 g of it noodles. The commonest thing Japanese reviewers say about the BIG is that one of them is dinner on its own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is a salty one\u003c\/strong\u003e: properly salty, the way Japanese cup ramen is, and roughly half of that sits in the broth. Drinking the soup or leaving it changes the meal quite a bit either way.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEat it while it is hot\u003c\/strong\u003e: the complaint that comes up most about the BIG specifically is that it is a lot of cup, so the end of it goes soft if you take your time over it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains crab, fish, wheat, egg, milk, squid, clam, sesame and soy, plus chicken and pork seasonings and a gelatine Nissin does not source, none an allergen. Japan's chart has no clam or fish category, so those sit in the ingredient list — check it, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoiling water to the line moulded inside the cup, about 390 mL, then lid down for three minutes. Don't microwave it: Nissin's own instruction is that only their microwave-marked products go in one, so tip it into a bowl first if you want to reheat it. It isn't vegetarian or halal either, with pork and chicken seasoning, egg and gelatine in it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nissin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48223189303522,"sku":"SH-NDL-0002","price":6.29,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/nissin-cup-noodle-seafood-big-cup.webp?v=1786954765"},{"product_id":"nissin-cup-noodle-curry-big","title":"Nissin Cup Noodle Curry BIG — Japanese Curry Cup Noodle, 121g","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe big cup of Nissin's Cup Noodle, in the curry flavour: the size Japanese convenience stores carry. Japanese curry is sweet, thick and mild, closer to a gravy than to anything hot, and this one has fried potato, carrot and Nissin's freeze-dried pork mince sitting on top of the noodles. If you ate one of these at a konbini at midnight, this is that cup.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: カップヌードル カレー ビッグ (kappu nūdoru karē biggu). Look for the word BIG above the curry lettering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCup Noodle Curry comes in three sizes in Japan. Mini, regular and BIG. This is BIG, the convenience-store size, and the step up is real: 120 g against the regular cup's 87 g.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJapanese curry, which is its own thing\u003c\/strong\u003e: thickened with flour and starch into something closer to gravy than soup, sweetened, and rounded out with cheese and peanut butter. It is mild: Japanese reviewers describe it as gentle, home-style curry rather than a hot one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThick noodles, and a lot of them\u003c\/strong\u003e: a 120 g cup against the regular cup's 87 g, with 85 g of it noodles. Japanese reviewers keep describing the soup as clinging to them rather than sitting underneath.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe brown cubes are the famous bit\u003c\/strong\u003e: Nissin left them unexplained for 46 years until they became a national in-joke, 謎肉, \"mystery meat\". The company gave the answer in September 2017, inside a \u003cem\u003eDetective Conan\u003c\/em\u003e manga: minced pork extended with soy protein, then freeze-dried.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is a meal, not a snack\u003c\/strong\u003e: 120 g, and a salty one. Japanese reviewers are consistent about the trade: the regular size leaves you hungry and this one doesn't.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk, \u003cstrong\u003epeanut\u003c\/strong\u003e, sesame, soy and apple, plus chicken and pork, which Japan declares and Australia does not.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens, one more\u003c\/strong\u003e: Australia's allergen chart has no apple category, so apple cannot appear in the pack's allergen box here — check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list. Peanut butter is an ingredient, not a trace warning, and sesame is declared for shared equipment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA few things worth knowing before it arrives.\u003c\/strong\u003e The fill line is moulded into the inside wall of the cup rather than printed on the outside, and it takes 380 mL, more than a regular cup, so boil a full kettle. It is not vegetarian and not halal: there is pork in the meat pieces and pork fat in the soup. And if the Nissin cups you know are the ones in Australian supermarkets, this is a different product: those are 72 to 75 g cups supplied for this market and made outside Japan, and this is the Japanese domestic cup, 120 g, made in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nissin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48223197004002,"sku":"SH-NDL-0003","price":6.29,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/nissin-cup-noodle-curry-big-cup.webp?v=1786950413"},{"product_id":"nissin-cup-noodle-seafood","title":"Nissin Cup Noodle Seafood — Japanese Cup Ramen, 75g","description":"\u003cp\u003eNissin's seafood cup noodle in the regular size: the 75 g cup as it is sold in Japan. The broth is the cloudy kind, built on pork and chicken with clam and seafood layered over the top, so it lands rich and faintly creamy rather than fishy, closer to a mild chowder than to anything from a ramen shop. Seafood Noodle was the second best-selling cup ramen by sales value across Japanese supermarkets in 2024–25. If you had one in Japan and want that exact cup, this is it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack it reads カップヌードル シーフードヌードル, just \"Cup Noodle Seafood Noodle\" written in Japanese, so you can check the cup that arrives is the right one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCup Noodle comes in three sizes in Japan: Mini 38 g, regular 75 g and BIG 105 g. This is the regular cup, 60 g of it noodles, the everyday size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNot the supermarket cup\u003c\/strong\u003e: Coles sells a Nissin seafood cup at 72 g whose own product page says it is made in China. This is the 75 g cup from Nissin's Japanese range, made in Japan. Three grams apart, and a different product.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is actually floating in it\u003c\/strong\u003e: squid, crab-flavoured surimi, seasoned egg, cabbage and spring onion. The crab stick is kanikama, a fish surimi shaped and coloured to look like crab. Nissin declares crab as an allergen on it, so if you react to shellfish, treat this as containing crab.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is a pork broth underneath\u003c\/strong\u003e: pork and chicken seasoning lead the soup, with clam and seafood over the top. Worth knowing before you buy: it is not vegetarian, and it is not halal.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA salty cup, and about half of that salt sits in the broth.\u003c\/strong\u003e Finishing the soup or leaving it changes the meal quite a bit either way.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNo prawn, despite the name\u003c\/strong\u003e: the shellfish here is crab, squid and clam.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains crab, squid, clam, fish, wheat, egg, milk, sesame and soy, plus chicken and pork seasonings and a gelatine Nissin does not source, none an allergen. Japan's chart has no clam or fish category, so those sit in the ingredient list — check it, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDo not microwave it.\u003c\/strong\u003e The American Cup Noodles come in a paper cup you can microwave and this one does not, the lid is aluminium. Tip it into a bowl first if you want to reheat it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nissin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244641300706,"sku":"SH-NDL-0008","price":4.65,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/nissin-cup-noodle-seafood-cup-front.webp?v=1787296768"},{"product_id":"ichiran-ramen-hakata-thin-straight","title":"Ichiran Ramen Hakata Tonkotsu — Thin Straight Noodles, 5 Serves","description":"\u003cp\u003eIchiran's own take-home box: five servings of fine, straight Hakata noodles, a liquid tonkotsu sachet for each, and five sachets of the red chilli powder. Tonkotsu means pork bones, simmered down: the broth comes out rich but clean rather than heavy, and properly salty, most of that salt sits in the soup sachet rather than the noodles. The chilli is a dial you turn up rather than a heat that arrives. It's for anyone after a tonkotsu bowl at home, and especially for anyone who queued at one of their booths in Japan and has been chasing it since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Japan this sits in the souvenir aisle rather than the pantry, and it's priced like it: several times a supermarket packet, and still less than a bowl in a ramen shop. Ichiran had shipped over 60 million servings of it by March 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pack reads 一蘭ラーメン 博多細麺ストレート (ichiran ra-men hakata hoso-men sutoreeto).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt gets close to the shop, and it is not the shop. That is the honest version, and it is also how to enjoy it: the best bowl you can make at home, rather than Fukuoka in a saucepan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVery fine, dead-straight noodles, 博多細麺 on the box means exactly that, Hakata thin noodles, and you pick the firmness rather than the packet picking it for you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou never drain them. The water the noodles cook in becomes the broth: cut the heat, stir the soup sachet into the same pot, pour the lot into a bowl. One pan, about five minutes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNothing on top. No chashu, no egg, no spring onion: the box is noodles, broth and chilli. Sliced spring onion and a soft-boiled egg get you most of the way there, and both are an ordinary supermarket trip.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis is the thin straight one. Ichiran sells a curly-noodle box and a vegan box in Australia too, in near-identical packaging, so when it arrives, check the bottom of the box: the right one spells out \"Hakata-style Thin Straight Noodles\" in English.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat and soy, and the maker says the same plant also runs buckwheat and yam products. It is a pork-bone broth and it contains chicken, so it is not vegetarian, vegan or halal. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a stovetop job rather than a cup: you need a saucepan and 450 mL of water per serving, and the soup sachet is a liquid concentrate, not a powder. 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In Japan this is the one people actually buy, in September 2025 the 78 g cup was the second best-selling cup noodle in Japanese shopping baskets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eカップヌードル, the name on the pack, so you can check what arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is Nissin's standard Cup Noodle: the flagship recipe, not the lighter reduced-fat version and not the premium PRO line. Of its three sizes, mini, regular and big, this is the regular. You are buying one cup.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA broth with two stocks in it.\u003c\/strong\u003e Chicken and pork together rather than one or the other, with spices behind them and a bamboo-shoot note underneath. There is no chilli in it. Nissin sells a chilli tomato cup as a separate flavour.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFine, wavy noodles with a slippery smoothness.\u003c\/strong\u003e That smoothness is Nissin's own word for them, and it is what makes the broth cling to every strand.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe \"mystery meat\", explained.\u003c\/strong\u003e The brown nuggets are a pork mince made with soy protein. Japanese customers nicknamed them 謎肉, mystery meat, and the name stuck so well that Nissin uses it now too.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFive toppings, already in the cup.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mince, egg, prawn, pork and spring onion, loose in there. There is no sachet to tear open and nothing to stir in first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOne cup is a light meal, not a big one.\u003c\/strong\u003e Plenty of people buy the bigger cup because this size leaves them wanting: if you eat like that, take the 103 g one instead. It is the same flavour but not quite the same recipe: in 2025 the bigger cup got a larger version of the mince and this one kept the standard.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Nissin declares crustacean (prawn), wheat, egg, milk, sesame and soy, and it is made with pork and chicken. That is the maker's own declaration for this cup, and it is wider than the named ingredients. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have seen Nissin cups at Coles for about two dollars, those are a different product: made outside Japan, in flavours like chicken, laksa and tom yam. Neither Coles nor Woolworths ranges the original soy sauce; Coles carries five export cups and not one of them is it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDo not microwave it in its own cup.\u003c\/strong\u003e The lid has aluminium in it and Nissin warns of fire risk, so tip the noodles into a microwave-safe dish if you want to use one. You may have read that Cup Noodles became microwavable. That was Nissin's American arm changing its own packaging, and it does not apply to this Japanese cup.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fill line is moulded into the inside wall of the cup rather than printed on the outside, so look down into it, about 280 mL of boiling water. 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If you've eaten at the Ippudo in Sydney, this is that bowl's recipe rather than that bowl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e一風堂 赤丸新味, the name on the lid, if you're matching it to something you saw in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Rich and faintly sweet, creamy rather than heavy, with none of the barnyard funk people expect from Hakata pork-bone broth. The noodle is thin, straight and non-fried, so it holds a clean bite instead of going soft.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhere a cup stops being a restaurant\u003c\/strong\u003e: worth knowing before you order, because it's where people are disappointed. \u003cstrong\u003eThe soup is the part that travels.\u003c\/strong\u003e What doesn't quite come with it is the noodle, which is a little drier than the restaurant's, and the chilli miso, which several people find they can barely taste. Judge it as a very good cup, not as a bowl of Ippudo.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not as spicy as it looks\u003c\/strong\u003e: two Australian sellers put \"Spicy\" in the title of this product and that oversells it. The chilli miso is a warm note rather than heat; someone who says outright they can't handle spice took to it without trouble.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTonkotsu means pork bone\u003c\/strong\u003e: the broth is simmered from pork bones, so it isn't vegetarian and it isn't halal. (It's also not \u003cem\u003etonkatsu\u003c\/em\u003e, the crumbed pork cutlet, one letter apart and a common mix-up.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFour sachets, and the order matters\u003c\/strong\u003e: two go in before the water, two after the three minutes. Getting it backwards is the single most common complaint about this cup in Japan, and it's the difference between a thin broth and a thick one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains egg, milk and wheat. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours, and if you avoid sesame or soy, read it especially carefully, because the previous version of this cup declared both.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things to check if you're comparing listings. This is the current pack: \u003cstrong\u003e129 g, with 「とんこつ熟かさね」 across the top of the lid\u003c\/strong\u003e; the older 121 g and 127 g versions are still being sold here, and the lid on those reads 博多とんこつ instead. And if you already know our Ichiran box: that's a five-serving stovetop kit with a clean broth and no toppings at all by design, where this is one cup with chashu, wood-ear mushroom and spring onion in it and a much bolder, layered broth. Different ends of the same Hakata family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's one cup: a single serving, and a good one to try before committing to a five-serve box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nissin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48270567801058,"sku":"SH-NDL-0017","price":11.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/ippudo-akamaru-hakata-tonkotsu-cup-lid.webp?v=1787996177"},{"product_id":"nissin-raoh-tonkotsu-shoyu-ramen","title":"Nissin Raoh Tonkotsu Shoyu Ramen Packet — Pork \u0026 Soy Broth, 3 Servings, 279g","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a packet of ramen you \u003cstrong\u003ecook in a saucepan\u003c\/strong\u003e, not a cup you pour water into. Three servings, each a dried noodle cake and a sachet of soup, and the broth is soy-led with pork richness through it and a real hit of garlic. Raoh is Nissin's premium bagged line, and this flavour carries the thickest noodle in the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: 日清ラ王 豚骨醤油.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you have seen \"Raoh\" in a supermarket, that is a different pack.\u003c\/strong\u003e Woolworths ranges a Raoh-branded five-pack of single-serve noodles; the retailers listing it give its country of origin as Vietnam, and the packaging is printed for another market. This is the Japanese-market pack: made in Japan, three larger servings rather than five small ones. Same brand and the same logo, genuinely different product.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not the tonkotsu you are picturing.\u003c\/strong\u003e If \"tonkotsu\" makes you think of the thick, opaque, milk-white Hakata bowl, this is a different thing: the first ingredient in the soup is soy sauce, and there is no pork-bone extract in it at all. What it has is pork fat and pork extract in a soy broth, with garlic. It tastes like \u003cem\u003eiekei\u003c\/em\u003e: the Yokohama style, soy-based and garlicky, rather than anything from Hakata.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe noodle is non-fried, so it eats closer to a fresh noodle than a packet one usually does. It is the thickest and straightest of the Raoh bags we stock: firm bite, springy, slippery.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo things go into it: a Kagoshima Berkshire-pork extract and an Aomori garlic paste.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree servings in the bag. \u003cstrong\u003eNothing comes with it\u003c\/strong\u003e, no dried vegetables, no meat, no garnish. Nissin's own instructions suggest chāshū (braised pork belly, or any leftover roast pork), spinach, spring onion and nori seaweed, which is a useful shopping list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest one: it will make your kitchen smell,\u003c\/strong\u003e and it lingers. It is a garlicky pork broth doing what a garlicky pork broth does, worth knowing before you cook it in a flat with the bedroom door open.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne serving carries \u003cstrong\u003enear a whole day's worth of salt\u003c\/strong\u003e by the World Health Organization's guideline, and most of it is in the broth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk, sesame and soy. Egg and milk are declared on the pack but are not in the ingredient list, so our ingredients panel does not show them, on those two, trust the allergen list. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe one thing to get right: do not pour the cooking water away.\u003c\/strong\u003e You boil the noodles in a measured 450 ml, then tip that water into your bowl over the soup sachet and add the noodles last, the water \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e the broth. This is the opposite of the yakisoba trays we also sell, where draining is the whole method. There is no colander and nothing goes down the sink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo more things. \u003cstrong\u003eThis flavour cooks for five minutes, not four\u003c\/strong\u003e: a minute longer than the miso and tantanmen bags, because the noodle is thicker. Going by another Raoh's timing will undercook it. 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Raoh is Nissin's premium bagged line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: 日清ラ王 味噌.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you have seen \"Raoh\" in a supermarket, that is a different pack.\u003c\/strong\u003e Woolworths ranges a Raoh-branded five-pack of single-serve noodles; the retailers listing it give its country of origin as Vietnam, and the packaging is printed for another market. This is the Japanese-market pack: made in Japan, three larger servings rather than five small ones. Same brand and the same logo, genuinely different product.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe noodle is the reason this line exists.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is non-fried, so it eats closer to a fresh noodle than a packet one usually does. It is thick, flat, smooth and dense, and everyone agrees on that much. Where people split is whether it eats like a ramen shop's noodle or a bit too neat and machine-made. You will know within one bowl which camp you're in.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe soup is a Hokkaido rice-koji miso, koji being the cultured rice that ferments the paste, with a Kagoshima Berkshire-pork extract. It is a pork-based broth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe most common complaint is that the broth is light.\u003c\/strong\u003e Worth knowing that the noodle and the soup tend to divide people separately: very few dislike both, so if one of the two is not for you the other may still be.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree servings in the bag, cooked one at a time. \u003cstrong\u003eNothing comes with it\u003c\/strong\u003e, no dried vegetables, no meat, no garnish. The bag is sold bare so you top it however you like.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne serving carries \u003cstrong\u003eclose to a whole day's worth of salt\u003c\/strong\u003e by the World Health Organization's guideline: every flavour in this range is in the same territory, and most of it is in the broth. Worth knowing before you drink the bowl dry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk, sesame and soy. Egg and milk are declared on the pack but are not in the ingredient list, so our ingredients panel does not show them, on those two, trust the allergen list. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe one thing to get right: do not pour the cooking water away.\u003c\/strong\u003e You boil the noodles in a measured 450 ml, then tip that water into your bowl over the soup sachet and add the noodles last, the water \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e the broth. This is the opposite of the yakisoba trays we also sell, where draining is the whole method, so it is an easy habit to bring to the wrong product. There is no colander involved and nothing goes down the sink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few more things worth knowing. The soup sachet is a liquid, and it goes into the empty bowl first, never into the pan. The 450 ml is a measured amount rather than \"a pot of water\": the ratio is the seasoning. 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Rich, nutty, mildly hot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: 日清ラ王 担々麺.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you have seen \"Raoh\" in a supermarket, that is a different pack.\u003c\/strong\u003e Woolworths ranges a Raoh-branded five-pack of single-serve noodles; the retailers listing it give its country of origin as Vietnam, and the packaging is printed for another market. This is the Japanese-market pack: made in Japan, three larger servings rather than five small ones. Same brand and the same logo, genuinely different product.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSesame is the lead, not chilli.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ground sesame and sesame paste give it a thick, nutty richness that carries the bowl, and it is the sesame that keeps the chilli in check rather than the other way round.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is milder than the red packaging suggests, and the Sichuan pepper will not make your mouth tingle.\u003c\/strong\u003e The pepper is in there for its scent rather than for heat, and the chilli is moderate. If you have had a properly numbing \u003cem\u003emala\u003c\/em\u003e noodle, the mouth-buzzing Sichuan kind, this is not that, and Nissin makes a separate product for it. If you want real heat, add your own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo sachets, not one: a powder that dissolves in the broth and a \u003cstrong\u003efinishing paste that goes in last\u003c\/strong\u003e. It gives the bowl more depth than a single sachet would, and it means \u003cstrong\u003eyou can add the paste to taste\u003c\/strong\u003e rather than all at once.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe noodle is non-fried, steamed and dried rather than flash-fried in oil, and three-layered with durum wheat through the middle. Expect a fine, springy noodle rather than a thick one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree servings in the bag, and \u003cstrong\u003enothing else\u003c\/strong\u003e, no dried vegetables, no meat. It is built to have something added to it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne serving carries \u003cstrong\u003enear a whole day's worth of salt\u003c\/strong\u003e by the World Health Organization's guideline. 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Buy it if you want the lightest bowl in our range; if you want a thick, rich ramen, this is the wrong one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: 日清ラ王 柚子しお.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Raoh in Woolworths is a different pack\u003c\/strong\u003e: five single-serve noodles, made in Vietnam and printed for another market. This is the Japanese-market one: made in Japan, three larger servings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYou will taste the citrus, and that is what people either love or dislike.\u003c\/strong\u003e If you were expecting plain salt ramen, you might be disappointed, one Japanese buyer was: \u003cem\u003e\"I thought it was shio ramen and there's yuzu in it… disappointing.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUnder the citrus is a proper stock\u003c\/strong\u003e: chicken and kombu kelp with bonito (dried smoked tuna). 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This is the big cup, and it is the one Nissin upgraded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eカップヌードル チリトマトヌードル ビッグ, \u003cem\u003echiri tomato biggu\u003c\/em\u003e, the tomato one in the big size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe size that got the upgrade.\u003c\/strong\u003e In August 2025 Nissin overhauled the big cups for the first time in a decade, and chilli tomato gained the most of the four, roughly 37% more toppings in the cup.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTomato first, chilli second.\u003c\/strong\u003e The soup leads on tomato sweetness and a clean acidity; the chilli is a warmth at the back rather than heat you have to brace for.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCumin and oregano do the real work.\u003c\/strong\u003e They are what make it taste unlike every other cup on the shelf, smoky and slightly Mexican rather than Italian, once you notice them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA slightly thicker, firmer noodle\u003c\/strong\u003e that the soup clings to, and five dried toppings loose in the cup: cabbage, tomato, corn, green beans, and the enlarged mince Japan calls \u003cem\u003enazoniku\u003c\/em\u003e, \"mystery meat\", a joke Nissin leaned into for decades before confirming it is pork and soy protein.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThere is cheese in the soup powder.\u003c\/strong\u003e Both processed and natural cheese, which is why milk is declared, not something you would expect to find in a noodle cup.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest caveat:\u003c\/strong\u003e for something called Chilli Tomato, there is not much chilli in it, enough to notice if you are genuinely heat-shy, nowhere near enough if you came looking for it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk, sesame, soy, apple, and mollusc in the form of clam seasoning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens, the two chart gaps\u003c\/strong\u003e: Japan's chart has no mollusc category, so clam sits in the pack's ingredient list rather than its allergen box. 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If you are choosing between the two sizes, this is the bigger one, and it leaves you enough soup to finish it with rice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nissin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48289725317346,"sku":"SH-NDL-0023","price":6.05,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/nissin-cup-noodle-chilli-tomato-big-cup.webp?v=1788090228"},{"product_id":"nissin-cup-noodle-tom-yum-kung","title":"Nissin Cup Noodle Tom Yum Kung BIG — Japanese Ramen Cup, 100g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sour-hot prawn soup with noodles in it, made creamy with coconut milk rather than left thin and sharp: lemongrass and lime leaf over a tom yum paste that is genuinely made in Thailand. \u003cem\u003eKung\u003c\/em\u003e means prawn, and there are whole ones in the cup. This is Nissin's own recreation of the dish, not a Thai product.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eカップヌードル パクチー香るトムヤムクン ビッグ, \u003cem\u003epakuchii kaoru tomu yamu kun\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003epakuchii\u003c\/em\u003e is coriander, and it sits in the product's own name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYou set the heat yourself.\u003c\/strong\u003e The tom yum paste comes as its own sachet, stirred in at the end, all of it, half of it, or none.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSour first, hot second.\u003c\/strong\u003e The acidity is the assertive part, pitched above the instant tom yum sold in Thailand itself, and the chilli sits behind it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCreamy, not thin.\u003c\/strong\u003e Coconut milk and a dairy component round the soup out. This is the richer style of tom yum, not the clear one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhole prawns, red chilli, mushroom and coriander\u003c\/strong\u003e loose in the cup, on a slightly wider noodle than the standard Cup Noodle uses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the coriander:\u003c\/strong\u003e it is in the product's Japanese name, so it looks like the headline, but it is the smallest of the four toppings, and milder than the name promises. It cannot be left out, though, so if coriander is a hard no for you, this is not your cup.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest caveat:\u003c\/strong\u003e people who bounce off this cup bounce off the sourness, not the herb. If sharp, sour soup is not what you want, buy a different one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains prawn (crustacean), wheat, milk, sesame and soy. 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