Made byMarutaiFukuoka, Japan
Marutai Kagoshima Kurobuta Tonkotsu Ramen Packet 185g
Kagoshima-style ramen in a packet for one pan: straight noodles and a pork-bone (tonkotsu) soup with charred spring onion.
Regular price $5.99AUD
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Why we say this
Marutai has made stick ramen (dried noodles in straight bundles) since 1959, and this Kagoshima packet is bought well beyond Kagoshima: buyer reviews from 2017 to 2026 come from Tokyo, Osaka, Aichi, Miyagi and Niigata.
Product information
About
Kagoshima-style ramen in a packet for one pan: straight noodles and a pork-bone (tonkotsu) soup with charred spring onion. Charred onion is one of the things ramen from Kagoshima, in Japan's south, is known for, and here it gives the soup a light, toasty edge. Buy it if you want an everyday pork-bone ramen for two that is easy to eat; if you want the strongest, heaviest shop-style broth, this is the wrong packet: some buyers found this one milder than they hoped.
On the pack: 鹿児島黒豚 とんこつラーメン. Marutai also makes a Hakata ramen in a packet of the same weight, so look for 鹿児島 (Kagoshima) in the name.
What you're getting
- How rich it tastes divides people: some call it rich, others milder than they expected.
- Kurobuta, Kagoshima's black pork, goes into the soup's pork extract; it is an ingredient, not a flavour of its own.
- The noodles are straight, dried rather than fried, and smooth with a firm bite. They cook in three minutes.
- Nothing comes on top. The pork, bean sprouts and greens in the picture are a serving idea; bean sprouts, sliced spring onion and a boiled egg from any supermarket are the easy additions.
- Allergens: contains wheat, milk, sesame, soy and mollusc (scallop). Japan's chart has no category for mollusc, so the scallop sits in the pack's ingredient list rather than its allergen box: check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.
- Also on the label: the soup is made with pork extract and pork oil, and also contains chicken. Milk and sesame are declared, though no single ingredient names them. Anyone who avoids pork or meat should skip it.
The packet holds two servings, as two bundles of noodles: one to cook now and one to save. Most of the salt is in the soup rather than the noodles, so leaving some of the soup behind cuts it down.
Ingredients
Noodles (wheat flour (made in Japan), salt, vegetable protein); soup (pork extract, pork oil, salt, vegetable powder, soy sauce powder, powdered fat, sugars (glucose, maltose, sugar), chicken extract, vegetable oil, charred spring onion, starch, spices, hydrolysed protein, chicken oil, yeast extract, scallop extract); seasoning (amino acids etc.), kansui (alkaline salts), gardenia colour, acidulant, caramel colour, flavouring, antioxidant (vitamin E). (Contains wheat, milk, sesame, soy, chicken, pork.)
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
- Milk
- Sesame
- Soy
- Mollusc
- Dietary notes
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The soup is made with pork extract and pork oil, and it also contains chicken extract and chicken oil, which Australia does not require to be declared as allergens. 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
- Marutai · Fukuoka
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One packet — 185 g, of which 146 g is noodles: two noodle bundles with their soup sachets
Our guide
How to eat it
- For each serving, bring 480 mL of water to the boil in a saucepan.
- Add one bundle of noodles and boil it for three minutes.
- Stir in that serving's sachets.
Good to know
- Cook one bundle at a time: each needs its own 480 mL of water and its own sachets.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
What do the numbers mean?
Counts of how many reviews mentioned each thing, not a score. One review can mention several. Every quote is our translation, with the original Japanese beneath it.
- What they like
A proper pork-bone ramen you'd never guess was instant.
インスタントとは思えない本格的なとんこつラーメンです。
from monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they grumble about
I bought it expecting a heavy pork-bone ramen, so it fell short.
こってり豚骨を期待して購入したのでイマイチだった。
from monolog
- What they like
Both the smooth noodles and the rich soup are really good!
ツルツルとした麺も、濃厚なスープもとても美味しい！
mentioned in 4 of 50 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
The charred spring onion smells toasty and makes a really good accent.
焦がしねぎが香ばしくとても良いアクセントになっています。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
You can see the charred spring onion, but it doesn't do much for the flavour.
焦がしネギは目視では存在確認できるけど、味の方にインパクトはすくなめ。
from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site
- What they like
I like that you make it in one pot without draining anything.
湯切りしないで、鍋一つで作れるのがいいです。
mentioned in 7 of 50 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they grumble about
The noodles took longer to cook than I expected.
思ったよりも麺が茹るまでに時間がかかりました。
from monolog
- What they like
Kagoshima's my favourite in this range!
このシリーズでは鹿児島が一番好き！
mentioned in 6 of 50 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they grumble about
This is my third or fourth from the regional range, and they're starting to taste much the same.
このご当地シリーズ、3つか4つめだけど、なんとなくどれも殆ど大差ない気がしてきた
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
It's gentler than I expected, with less punch, but it's compact and keeps, so I always have some in.
思ったよりは優しめの味でパンチは少なめかと思いますが、嵩張らず日持ちもするので常備してます。
from monolog
- What they like
It takes a little effort to make, but I go to ramen shops a lot less now.
作るのは少し手間だがラーメン店に行く回数がかなり減った。
mentioned in 11 of 50 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
I had it straight away. I never usually drink the soup, but this was so good I finished it for the first time.
早速頂きました、普段はスープは飲まないけどこれだけは美味しくて初めて完食しました。
from yahoo
- What they grumble about
I'd like it a bit stronger, but I buy it whenever I see it!
もっと濃かったらいいけど、見かけると買ってしまう！
from monolog
- What they like
With lots of garlic from a tube, it tastes like eating at a ramen shop.
ニンニクチューブを沢山入れたらお店で食べてるような美味しさに。
from monolog
- What they like
The soup isn't heavy, so you can drink it all, and with sliced pork or an egg it's filling.
スープもしつこくないので全部飲み干す事ができますし、チャーシューや卵を添えれば満足感もあります。
from yahoo
Real quotes from the review sites named on the cards. We show no star rating from those sites.
The maker
Where it comes from
- Marutai
- Fukuoka
Stick ramen has been Marutai's speciality since 1959. The Fukuoka company dries its noodles straight, in stick-shaped bundles, one bundle to a serving.
Its regional range names each packet after a place in Japan and that place's ramen; this is the Kagoshima one.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: marutai.co.jp (opens in a new tab)
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