Made byToyo SuisanTokyo, Japan
Maruchan Seimen Miso Ramen Packet Japanese Non-Fried Noodles 5 Servings 540g
This is a bag of five Japanese ramen servings you cook in a saucepan, not a cup you pour water into.
Regular price $14.84AUD
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Why we say this
Maruchan Seimen has sold more than 2.5 billion servings across its range since 2011, and this miso five-pack ranked 12th among bagged noodles in a national supermarket sales survey for January to June 2022.
Product information
About
This is a bag of five Japanese ramen servings you cook in a saucepan, not a cup you pour water into. Each serving is a round block of thick, non-fried noodle with its own sachet of liquid miso soup, and the broth is a savoury pork-and-miso one with a little spice in it. Buy it for the noodle, which is chewy and smooth; if you want a mild, sweet miso, this is the wrong bag.
On the pack: マルちゃん正麺 味噌味. Seimen (say-men) is the name of the range.
What you're getting
- The noodle is the reason this range exists. It is dried straight from raw dough, with no steaming or frying, so it cooks up chewy and smooth and eats more like a fresh noodle than a packet one.
- Miso gets the thickest noodle in the Seimen range, so it boils for four minutes, a minute longer than the shoyu (plain soy-sauce) one.
- The soup is a liquid sachet of miso, not a powder, with pork for body. It sits on the salty side rather than the sweet.
- Most of the salt is in the soup. For a lighter bowl, use part of the sachet and pile on vegetables.
- Allergens: contains wheat, egg, sesame and soy. Sesame is declared on the pack but no ingredient names it, so our ingredients panel does not show it: on sesame, trust the allergen list. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
- Also on the label: there is meat in it. The soup is made with pork extract and lard, and the pack declares chicken and gelatine as well. Anyone who avoids pork or meat should skip it.
The one thing to get right: nothing is drained. You boil one noodle block in a measured 500 ml for four minutes, then tip the noodles and all of the cooking water into a bowl where the soup sachet is already waiting. That water is the broth. The cooking steps printed on the pack are in Japanese, so they are set out in English below.
This is not the American Maruchan Ramen; Seimen is a separate Japanese range. Japan updated the recipe in September 2026, and the allergens did not change.
Ingredients
Noodles (wheat flour (milled in Japan), salt, vegetable oil and fat, vegetable protein, egg white); soup (miso, pork extract, salt, spices, flavoured oil, vegetable extract, vegetable oil, lard, sugar, chicken extract, yeast extract, hydrolysed protein)
modified starch, flavour enhancer (amino acids etc.), alcohol, trehalose, kansui (alkaline noodle salts), calcium carbonate, caramel colour, lecithin, antioxidants (vitamin C, vitamin E), gardenia colour
For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.
Allergens
- Contains
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- Wheat
- Egg
- Sesame
- Soy
- Dietary notes
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The soup is made with pork extract and lard, and the pack also declares chicken and gelatine. The pork is in the soup base itself, so there is no leaving it out. It is not vegetarian, halal or kosher.
For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.
Details
- Maker
- Toyo Suisan · Tokyo
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One bag: 540 g, five noodle blocks with a soup sachet each, of which 400 g is noodles
Our guide
How to eat it
- Squeeze the liquid soup sachet into your serving bowl first.
- Bring 500 ml of water to a full boil in a saucepan.
- Add one noodle block and boil it for four minutes, loosening it gently once it softens.
- Tip the noodles and all of the cooking water into the bowl and stir the soup through. Nothing is drained: the cooking water is the broth.
Good to know
- Measure the 500 ml rather than guessing: less water makes it saltier, more makes it thin.
- Butter with tinned corn, or stir-fried bean sprouts and cabbage, are the usual toppings in Japan, and all of them are supermarket staples.
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In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
The noodles are so good you wouldn't know it was a packet noodle unless someone told you.
袋麺と言わなければわからないくらい麺が美味しいです。
from monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they grumble about
The salt comes through more than the miso does.
味噌の風味よりも塩が強い💦
from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site
- What they like
The noodles are chewy, like fresh noodles, and the soup is every bit as good as the noodles.
麺がモチモチしていて生麺っぽい食感ですし、スープも麺に負けないくらい美味しいです。
from monolog
- What they like
It's good because the soup is proper miso, not a powder.
スープが粉じゃなくしっかり味噌だから美味しいです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
The noodles are thick, so the kids seemed to find them hard to eat.
太麺なので子供は食べにくそうでした
from monolog
- What they like
First time buying it; the noodles were slippery-smooth and tasty.
はじめて買いました。麺がつるつるして美味しかったです
from monolog
- What they like
Thick noodles with real substance, and they hold on to the miso.
太麵で食べ応えがあって味噌とよく絡んで美味しいです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Maybe not quite as good as Sapporo Ichiban Miso Ramen, another Japanese packet ramen.
サッポロ一番みそラーメンよりかは劣るかも。
from monolog
- What they like
It isn't as sharp as Sapporo Ichiban.
サッポロ◯番ほど尖ってないんよ。
from mognavi
- What they like
With lots of vegetables and only about a third of the soup, it tastes just right.
野菜たっぷりでスープは1/3位で作って食べると気が済む味になります。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
The soup is rich and the noodle firm, but I can't accept that they cut the noodles short while calling it "Seimen", the proper noodle.
スープはコクがあり味わい深く、麺もコシがあって美味しいですが、「正麺」と名乗っているのにも関わらず、麺を短くしている事に納得がいきません
from monolog
- What they like
It's also good topped with butter and corn, as a miso-butter ramen.
このラーメンにバターとコーンを乗せて味噌バターラーメンにしても美味しいです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
To my palate, from Kyushu in Japan's south, it's a bit on the salty side.
九州舌の私からしたらちょっと塩気強め*ﾟ
from mognavi
- What they like
Of the whole Seimen range, the miso is my favourite.
正麺 シリーズの中では、味噌味が一番好きです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Though the noodles are thick, so it takes five minutes.
麺が太めで5分かかるけど。
from monolog
Our tip: Four minutes is the maker's time. Bite a strand at four and give it another minute only if you want it softer.
Real quotes from the review sites named on the cards. We show no star rating from those sites.
The maker
Where it comes from
- Toyo Suisan
- Tokyo
- Founded 1953
Toyo Suisan began in 1953 in Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market, exporting frozen tuna, and has used its Maruchan name since 1962.
Seimen (sei, proper; men, noodle) arrived in November 2011, built on a noodle process the company spent five years working out. The strands are cut from raw dough and dried straight away with hot air, skipping the steaming that other packet noodles go through, and part of the cooking is left for your pot. That time in the pan is where the fresh-noodle bite comes from. The range's main bagged flavours were reworked in September 2026.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: maruchan.co.jp (opens in a new tab)
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