{"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. The red sachet is properly hot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ichiran","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244647493858,"sku":"SH-NDL-0005","price":38.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/ichiran-ramen-hakata-thin-straight-5-serve-box.webp?v=1787300211","url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/products\/ichiran-ramen-hakata-thin-straight","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}