{"title":"Peyoung Instant Yakisoba","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeyoung makes square-tray yakisoba: fill the tray with boiling water, pour it off, and stir the sauce through. Four here, from the original brown sauce to a mapo-tofu one.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"peyoung-yakisoba-super-large","title":"Peyoung Sauce Yakisoba Super Large — Japanese Instant Fried Noodles, 237g","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeyoung is Japan's instant yakisoba, and yakisoba is not a soup. You pour boiling water in, wait three minutes, then \u003cstrong\u003etip the water out\u003c\/strong\u003e through a spout in the corner and toss the noodles through a sachet of brown sauce. It tastes closer to home than you would expect: the sauce is built on Worcestershire, so it lands near a fried-noodle version of a brown sauce you already know, sweeter, with sesame, green seaweed and pickled ginger running through it. This is the 超大盛 size, a 237 g pack against the standard 120 g, with 180 g of it noodles: twice the standard pack, and one very large dinner or a comfortable meal for two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeyoung's own range runs from a standard 120 g pack up through this one to a 439 g GIGAMAX and an 878 g Petamax. This is the double: the step up from standard, not the novelty. It came second in a 2025 national poll of Japan's instant yakisoba, just behind Nissin's U.F.O. Those two are the ones people there argue about. If you have had a U.F.O., this is the sweeter and lighter of the pair; which sauce is \u003cem\u003ericher\u003c\/em\u003e is the part nobody agrees on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eペヤング ソースやきそば 超大盛.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlash-fried wheat noodles, and a dried garnish of cabbage, seasoned mince, sesame, aosa seaweed and pickled red ginger that comes back to life in the water.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEveryday Japanese supermarket food, not a delicacy and not a gift. This is the standard instant noodle aisle, in the big size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree sachets, and the small pepper one is the one people miss. It goes on at the very end, after you drain, skip it and the whole tray tastes flat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is a lot of food for one sitting, and the noodle block is physically two separate cakes, so it halves cleanly if you would rather split it than finish it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe honest one: there is a single sauce sachet for double the noodles, and plenty of people in Japan reckon it lands light. Others say the opposite and find it salty. It comes down to how thoroughly you drain.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, soy, sesame and apple. 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens, one more\u003c\/strong\u003e: the pack also declares beef, chicken and pork, not Australian allergens, but the noodles are fried in lard, the sauce carries beef extract and there is chicken mince in the garnish.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things worth knowing before you order. \u003cstrong\u003eIt is not spicy.\u003c\/strong\u003e Peyoung is famous in English for its 獄激辛 \"hell-spicy\" packs and the challenge videos that go with them. That is a different line, and this is the plain original sauce. And it is not vegetarian: the noodles themselves are fried in lard, there is beef in the sauce, and the garnish has chicken in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDrain it over the sink and keep the lid pressed down.\u003c\/strong\u003e The tray takes 820 mL of boiling water and you tip it out by hand, so it is heavy and hot when full, hold the two star marks on the lid and pour slowly. The pack is the Japanese-market one, so we have set the whole method out in English. One more thing: check the name on the pack. Maruka sells a cheaper line called ペヨング (Peyong), one character different from ペヤング (Peyoung). This is the Peyoung.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peyoung","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244647198946,"sku":"SH-NDL-0006","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/peyoung-sauce-yakisoba-super-large-tray-front.webp?v=1787299302"},{"product_id":"peyoung-yakisoba-half-and-half-spicy","title":"Peyoung Yakisoba Half \u0026 Half — Japanese Instant Noodles, Mild + Extra Hot, 235g","description":"\u003cp\u003eYakisoba (yah-kee-soh-bah) is Japan's fried noodle dish: you pour the water off before the sauce goes on, so it arrives glossy and sauced, never sitting in soup. This tray gives you two sauces at once. The mild half is Peyoung's everyday brown sauce. Worcestershire sauce is its first ingredient, so it lands near a brown sauce you already know, sweeter, with apple and tomato behind it and sesame, green seaweed and pickled ginger through the dried garnish. The other half is the same noodles under the brand's chilli sauce. Maruka's own line for it is that this is Peyoung's sauce yakisoba and its extra-hot yakisoba in one tray. If you have wanted to try a Japanese spicy noodle without betting a whole meal on it, this is the one that lets you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: ペヤング 超大盛やきそばハーフ\u0026amp;ハーフ激辛.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo sauces in one tray: the sweet-savoury brown sauce Peyoung has built its name on, and the chilli sauce that has sat beside it since 2013.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhere the heat actually sits:\u003c\/strong\u003e this is the entry rung of Peyoung's spicy range, not the extreme one. Maruka sells a standalone extra-hot tray and a \"hell-spicy\" line above it, and both are hotter than this. Japanese buyers split hard on it, and the split is worth repeating rather than resolving: some cannot finish the hot half, and others say it is not hot at all.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere is no divider in the tray. It is one continuous block of noodles, and you aim each sauce at half of it. The two sauces meet in the middle, and you mix them to find your own level of heat. It works in both directions, though: mixing lifts the mild half as much as it calms the hot one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is a big tray. 235 g is a full dinner rather than a snack, and plenty of Japanese buyers split it between two people.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, soy and sesame. The Japanese pack also declares beef, chicken, pork and apple, which Australia does not require on an allergen line but which matter if you avoid them. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few things worth knowing before you cook it. \u003cstrong\u003eThe water is drained, not eaten\u003c\/strong\u003e, three minutes, then peel the corner spout and tip it out; the sauce goes on afterwards, and pouring it in early is the one mistake people make. The whole tray is one serving, not two, even though it is dressed two ways. Sesame is on the allergen list even though you will not see any: it rides in the spice and oil components. The pack is the Japanese-market one, so the method is set out in full above, in English. \u003cstrong\u003eNever microwave the tray\u003c\/strong\u003e, and take care tipping the water out. It is boiling, and a full noodle block can plug the spout if you rush it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peyoung","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48270553088226,"sku":"SH-NDL-0014","price":7.58,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/peyoung-half-half-gekikara-pack.webp?v=1787985678"},{"product_id":"peyoung-yakisoba-half-and-half-twice-cooked-pork","title":"Peyoung Yakisoba Half \u0026 Half — Twice-Cooked Pork \u0026 Fried Rice Style, 236g","description":"\u003cp\u003eYakisoba (yah-kee-soh-bah) is Japan's fried noodle dish: you pour the water off before the sauce goes on, so it arrives glossy and sauced, never sitting in soup. This tray takes two dishes off a Chinese diner menu and puts one on each half: twice-cooked pork on one side, a spiced fried-rice-style sauce on the other. It is sweet, savoury and miso-heavy rather than hot, and it tastes of a neighbourhood Chinese kitchen rather than of a Japanese one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: ペヤング 超大盛やきそばハーフ\u0026amp;ハーフ 炒飯風\u0026amp;回鍋肉風. 回鍋肉 (hoikōrō) is twice-cooked pork, and 炒飯 (chāhan) is fried rice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe twice-cooked-pork half is the good one\u003c\/strong\u003e, and Japanese reviewers are close to unanimous about it: sweet fermented bean paste and miso, deep rather than sharp, with one editor calling it the more accomplished of the two sides. Two people said outright they would buy that flavour on its own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe fried-rice half does not taste like fried rice\u003c\/strong\u003e, and we would rather say so. Six Japanese reviewers tried it and none of them reached for \"fried rice\" when describing it: the words they used were closer to a spring-onion-oil stir-fry, or to bibimbap, the Korean rice bowl, in its plain salted form. It is a good spiced noodle. It is not a bowl of chāhan, and one buyer put it best: \u003cem\u003eno rice, and it's fried rice?\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere is no divider in the tray. It is one continuous block of noodles, and you aim each sauce at half of it. Maruka says that gets you three flavours: each half, then a third where they meet. Reviewers are split about evenly on whether the third one is worth it, because the pork side is strong enough to swamp the other. Worth trying once, in the middle of the tray.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe cabbage keeps a real crunch. It is the one thing no reviewer argued with, and it works with either sauce.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is a big tray. 236 g is a full dinner rather than a snack, and more than one Japanese reviewer said it defeated them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, soy and sesame. The Japanese pack also declares chicken and pork, which Australia does not require on an allergen line but which matter if you avoid them. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few things worth knowing before you cook it. \u003cstrong\u003eThe water is drained, not eaten\u003c\/strong\u003e, three minutes, then peel the corner spout and tip it out; the sauces go on afterwards, and pouring them in early is the mistake people actually make. The whole tray is one serving, not two, even though it is dressed two ways. \u003cstrong\u003eIt is not a numbing or fiery noodle\u003c\/strong\u003e. Sichuan pepper oil is in the sauce, but no reviewer we found tasted any tingle, and the heat runs to mild at most; sweetness is the more common complaint. Sesame is on the allergen list even though you will not see any: it rides in the spice and oil components. The pack is the Japanese-market one, so the method is set out in full above, in English. \u003cstrong\u003eNever microwave the tray\u003c\/strong\u003e, and take care tipping the water out. It is boiling, and a full noodle block can block the spout if you rush it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peyoung","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48270553284834,"sku":"SH-NDL-0016","price":8.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/main_cho-omori_half_cha-han_hoikoro.png?v=1787985913"}],"url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/collections\/peyoung.oembed","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}