Made byToyo SuisanTokyo, Japan
Maruchan Seimen Shoyu Ramen Packet Japanese Non-Fried Noodles 5 Servings 525g
This is a bag of five Japanese soy-sauce 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
This soy-sauce five-pack ranked fifth among all bagged noodles in a national supermarket sales survey for January to June 2022, and Maruchan Seimen has sold more than 2.5 billion servings across its range since 2011.
Product information
About
This is a bag of five Japanese soy-sauce 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 soy soup, built on chicken and pork with garlic and ginger. Buy it for a light, classic soy ramen with a chewy noodle; if you want a rich, heavy broth, this is the wrong bag.
On the pack: マルちゃん正麺 醤油味. Seimen (say-men) is the name of the range, and shōyu means soy sauce.
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.
- It is the middle noodle of the range: medium-thick, three minutes in the pan. The block is round, so it fits a small saucepan.
- The soup is a liquid sachet, not a powder, with garlic and ginger in its aroma. The garlic is forward.
- Most of the salt is in the soup. If the whole sachet tastes too strong, use part of it.
- Allergens: contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Milk is declared on the pack but no ingredient names it, so our ingredients panel does not show it: on milk, 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 chicken extract, chicken fat and pork extract, 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 measured 500 ml 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. The cooking steps printed on the pack are in Japanese, so they are set out in English below.
Seimen also makes a chūka soba, an old-style soy-sauce ramen: that one has a thin noodle and a dried-sardine aroma, and this is the plain one, with no fish note. 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 protein, vegetable oil and fat, egg white); soup (soy sauce, chicken extract, salt, vegetable oil, chicken fat, pork extract, spices, sugar, vegetable extract, fermented seasoning, hydrolysed protein, yeast extract, meat-flavoured powder, flavoured oil)
modified starch, flavour enhancer (amino acids etc.), alcohol, trehalose, kansui (alkaline noodle salts), calcium carbonate, lecithin, antioxidants (vitamin C, vitamin E), caramel colour, gardenia colour, thickener (polysaccharides), flavouring, sweetener (liquorice), spice extract
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
- Milk
- Soy
- Dietary notes
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The soup is made with chicken extract, chicken fat and pork extract, and the pack also declares gelatine. The meat 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: 525 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 three 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.
- Spring onion, a boiled egg and sliced pork are the usual toppings, and all of them are supermarket staples.
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In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
Slippery, springy noodles, a quality you wouldn't expect from a packet; it feels like eating a proper bowl of ramen.
麺がツルツルしてコシがあり、袋麺とは思えないクオリティで普通のラーメンを食べているような気になります。
from monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they grumble about
I suppose the noodles are meant to seem fresh, but they felt flabby; I guess that's instant noodles for you.
麺が生麺っぽくしてあるのだと思うが、ぶよぶよした感じでインスタントだと仕方ないのかと思った。
from monolog
- What they like
The garlic comes through in the soup and it's very good; the noodles are close to fresh in texture and even taste like fresh noodles.
スープにニンニクの風味が効いていてとても美味しく、麺は生麺に近い食感と麺自体にも生麺の味がしました。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
The punchy garlic's lingering taste and smell pushed forward, and I couldn't really enjoy it as a soy-sauce ramen.
パンチが強い大蒜のシツコイ味と臭いが出しゃばっていて、醤油ラーメンの味を堪能できなかったように感じられました
from monolog
- What they like
No harsh soy edge; light, but with just enough body, even a hint of sweetness.
醤油のカドもなくあっさりだけど程よくコクもあり甘味すら感じます。
from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site
- What they grumble about
It was good overall, but to my taste the soup was too sweet.
全体としては美味しかったのですが、スープの味が、私の感覚からすると甘すぎました。
from mognavi
- What they like
Because the soup is liquid, I think it's better than a powder.
スープが液体なので、粉末よりは美味しいと思います
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
With the whole sachet the soup is too strong, so I adjust it.
スープは全部入れると濃すぎるので、調節しています。
from monolog
- What they like
The noodle block is round, not square, so it goes into the pot easily.
麺も丸くなっているから四角くいのと違って鍋に入れやすいのもいい。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
The soup and noodles are better than a packet has any right to be, but the noodles are short.
スープも麺も袋麺とは思えない程美味しいですが、麺が短いのが残念です
from monolog
- What they like
Good noodle texture and a proper soup with no off-notes, so I can see why the kids love it.
確かに、麺は食感良くスープは本格的で臭みやクセなど無いとても美味しいスープなので、子供が気に入る気持ちもわかります。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
The only shame is the small amount (80 g of noodles).
ただ量が少なめ（麺が80g）なのがちょっと残念ですね。
from monolog
- What they like
Even with no appetite, it slips right down. That's the best part!
食欲が無い時もツルリといけるところが最高です！
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Much tastier than ordinary packet noodles, but the soup has a quirk I don't quite like.
普通の袋麺に比べてかなりおいしいと思いますがスープが私にはくせが感じられちょっと苦手です。
from monolog
- What they like
Slippery and springy, like a fresh, high-moisture ramen noodle.
ツルツルシコシコ、多加水麺みたいな食感です。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
Having eaten it, I still prefer the chūka soba flavour.
食べて、やっぱり中華そば味が好き
from monolog
Our tip: That is the thin-noodle soy with a dried-sardine aroma, from the same range.
- What they like
I think soy sauce is the best of the Maruchan Seimen range.
マルちゃん正麺は醤油が1番美味しいと思う。
from monolog
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, and soy sauce was one of its first three flavours. The noodle took the company five years to work out: strands cut from raw dough and dried straight away with hot air, skipping the steaming that other packet noodles go through, with part of the cooking left for your pot. That last stretch 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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