{"title":"Nissin Cup Noodle from Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003eNissin's Japanese Cup Noodle in the larger BIG cup and the flavours sold in Japan, not the smaller, locally supplied Nissin cups at Coles.\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 soy-sauce (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.\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.\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, not a double one.\u003c\/strong\u003e 103 g, 85 g of it noodles, against the standard cup's 78 g: roughly 1.3 times as much. Made for when the regular size leaves you hungry, and more than a light eater will finish. 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 declaration is wider than the ingredient list, which names no milk or sesame; Nissin does not say which seasoning carries them. Our list follows the maker's own Japanese label.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorth knowing before you buy: \u003cstrong\u003ethere is meat in it\u003c\/strong\u003e, pork, chicken, egg and prawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo make it, peel the lid back halfway, pour 400 mL of boiling water up to the line moulded on the inside of the cup (there is no fill mark on the outside), close the lid and wait 3 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 in the 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":6.49,"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. The broth is the cloudy kind, pork and seafood together, rich rather than fishy, like a mild chowder. Buy it if you had it in Japan and want that cup back, or you have finished an instant noodle cup still hungry; if you want a clear, light soup, this is the wrong cup. Seafood Noodle was the second best-selling cup ramen in Japanese supermarkets in 2024–25; that ranking is for the flavour, which supermarkets mostly sell as the regular 75 g cup; this is the BIG, the same flavour in the bigger cup.\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 standard sizes in Japan: Mini, regular and BIG. This is BIG, the largest of them.\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: surimi, a fish paste, flavoured as crab, with no crab meat in it. Nissin still declares crab, so if you react to shellfish, treat this as containing crab. Nissin made the crab stick bigger in 2025 and put in about 14% more garnish, and the cups we have in stock are that newer recipe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is a full meal\u003c\/strong\u003e: a 105 g cup, 85 g of it noodles, enough to eat on its own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is a salty one\u003c\/strong\u003e: roughly half of the salt sits in the broth, so drinking the soup or leaving it changes the meal quite a bit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEat it while it is hot\u003c\/strong\u003e: it is a lot of cup, and 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. Japanese labels don't have to flag clam or fish as allergens, so the pack names them only in its ingredient list (clam seasoning, fish paste). Our list follows the maker's own Japanese label.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo cooking, only boiling water and three minutes, and the cup does not go in the microwave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCurious about the crab stick itself? Our guide \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/guides\/seafood-sticks-kanikama\"\u003eSeafood sticks: Japan's kanikama, and what's really in them\u003c\/a\u003e explains what it is made of and why crab still shows on the label.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nissin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48223189303522,"sku":"SH-NDL-0002","price":6.49,"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 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 from a Japanese convenience store 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: 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. The soup clings 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 (nazoniku), \"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: a full lunch on its own where the regular cup is not, and a salty one.\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. Our list follows the maker's own Japanese label.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAlso on the label\u003c\/strong\u003e: Australian labels don't have to flag apple as an allergen, and the ingredient list does not say where it comes from, so if you avoid apple, skip it. Peanut butter is an ingredient, not a trace warning.\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. There is pork in it: in the meat pieces, and pork fat in the soup. 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":6.49,"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-chilli-tomato-big","title":"Nissin Cup Noodle Chilli Tomato BIG Japanese Ramen Cup 109g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tomato soup with noodles in it: sweet and gently sour, spiced with cumin and oregano over a pork stock. Closer to a thin arrabbiata (the spicy tomato pasta sauce) than to anything else in a noodle cup. Despite the name it is barely hot. 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 big cups it renewed, 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 springy, smooth 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\u003eAlso on the label\u003c\/strong\u003e: Japanese labels don't have to flag clam as an allergen, so the pack names it only in its ingredient list (clam seasoning). Australian labels don't have to flag apple, and the list does not say where it comes from, so if you avoid apple, skip it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt also contains pork, and chicken hidden inside the seasoning where you would not think to look. This is the Japanese domestic cup. The lid contains aluminium, so never microwave it in its own cup; Nissin warns of fire risk. This big cup 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, 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. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe milk is real, not a coconut substitute: a dairy-based ingredient is named in the soup, so this is not dairy-free. Chicken is declared too, though it appears nowhere by name in the ingredient list. This is the Japanese domestic cup. Eat it slowly: the sour chilli steam coming off it catches in the throat if you rush. The lid contains aluminium, so never microwave it in its own cup; Nissin warns of fire risk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nissin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48289726005474,"sku":"SH-NDL-0024","price":5.48,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/nissin-cup-noodle-tom-yum-kung-big-cup.webp?v=1788097370"}],"url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/collections\/nissin-cup-noodle.oembed","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}