Maruchan Seimen Shio Ramen Packet Japanese Non-Fried Noodles 5 Servings 560g

This is a bag of five Japanese salt ramen servings you cook in a saucepan, not a cup you pour water into. Each serving is a round block of medium-thick, non-fried noodle with its own sachet of liquid salt soup, built on pork and chicken with a sweet onion note and a stir-fried-vegetable flavour. Buy it for a light, clean ramen with a chewy noodle; if you want a rich, heavy broth like tonkotsu (pork bone), this is the wrong bag.

On the pack: マルちゃん正麺 旨塩味. Seimen (say-men) is the name of the range; shio means salt, and umashio (oo-ma-shee-oh) means savoury salt.

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 springy and eats more like a fresh noodle than a packet one.
• It is the same kind of medium-thick noodle as the range's soy-sauce bag, three minutes in the pan, so the soup is what sets the two apart.
• Salt ramen, but not only salt. Soy sauce goes into the soup as well, along with a seafood extract, so do not expect a clear broth.
• Most of the salt is in the soup. If the whole sachet tastes too strong, use part of it.
• Allergens: contains wheat, egg, milk, sesame and soy. No ingredient names the milk or sesame, so on those two trust the allergen list. It also holds a seafood extract of unnamed species: avoid it with a fish or shellfish allergy. 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 chicken extract, pork extract and lard, and the pack declares 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 little over 500 ml of water for three 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, and the full steps are set out in English below.

The bowl on the front of the bag is a serving idea: the vegetables and pork are yours to add. Seimen has also announced a clam-stock salt bag (貝だし塩そば), which is a different soup; this is the original salt one. It is not the American Maruchan Ramen either, since Seimen is a separate Japanese range. Japan updated the recipe in September 2026, and the allergens did not change.