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Myojo Charumera Barikata Tonkotsu Ramen Packet Japanese Pork Bone Ramen 5 x 82g

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Made byMyojo FoodsTokyo, Japan

Myojo Charumera Barikata Tonkotsu Ramen Packet Japanese Pork Bone Ramen 5 x 82g

This is a bag of five packets of Japanese tonkotsu (pork-bone) ramen you cook in a saucepan, each with a soup powder and a small pork-oil sachet.

Regular price $15.39AUD

$3.75 per 100 g

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Why we say this

This tonkotsu bag has been sold in Japan since January 2016, first as Non-fry Charumera Tonkotsu, within Myojo's Charumera range, which has been on Japanese shelves since 1966.

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Product information

About

This is a bag of five packets of Japanese tonkotsu (pork-bone) ramen you cook in a saucepan, each with a soup powder and a small pork-oil sachet. The soup is a creamy pork-bone soup with garlic and pepper, and the very thin, straight noodle is non-fried and cooks in 90 seconds. Buy it for a quick tonkotsu with a firm, ramen-shop style noodle; if you want the thick broth of a ramen bar or a big bowl, this is the wrong bag.

On the pack: チャルメラ バリカタ麺 豚骨. Charumera (cha-roo-meh-ra) is the brand; barikata (ba-ri-ka-ta) is the word tonkotsu ramen shops use for a noodle served very firm; tonkotsu (ton-kot-soo) means pork bone.

What you're getting

  • A very thin, firm noodle. It is straight and dried, and unlike the noodles in the other Charumera bags we sell, it is not fried.
  • Boiled for the 90 seconds the maker gives, it is firm and springy, not crunchy, and it keeps softening in the hot soup, so have the bowl ready before it goes in the pot.
  • It is a smaller serve: each 82 g packet holds 70 g of noodle, against 90 g in the Charumera soy-sauce, salt and miso bags, so a big appetite may want two.
  • The second sachet is pork oil, which lifts the smell of pork and garlic in the bowl.
  • Allergens: contains wheat, egg, milk, crustaceans (shrimp), molluscs (scallop), sesame and soy. Japanese labels don't have to flag molluscs as allergens, so the pack names them only in its ingredient list (scallop extract). If you avoid them, look for them by name in the ingredients.
  • Also on the label: there is meat in it: pork extract and lard are in it, and the pack declares chicken as well. Anyone who avoids pork or meat should skip it. It is made on equipment that also handles buckwheat.

The toppings pictured on the bag are a serving idea: each packet holds the noodle and its two sachets, nothing else. It is made by Myojo Foods of Japan. A Charumera Barikata cup, or an older 415 g bag, is a different product.

Ingredients

Noodles (wheat flour (made in Japan), egg powder, vegetable oil and fat, pork extract, soy sauce, salt); soup (salt, pork extract, powdered fat, processed fat, hydrolysed protein, lard, milk-based food preparation, sugars, sesame, spices (garlic, pepper), vegetable oil and fat, red pickled ginger, yeast extract, scallop extract, flavour seasoning)

flavour enhancer (amino acids etc.), kansui (alkaline noodle salts), calcium carbonate, thickener (polysaccharides), eggshell calcium, magnesium carbonate, flavouring, silicon dioxide, antioxidant (vitamin E), caramel colour, emulsifier, sweetener (sucralose), vitamin B2, vitamin B1, acidity regulator (contains egg, milk, wheat, shrimp, sesame, soy, chicken and 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
  • Wheat
  • Egg
  • Milk
  • Crustacean
  • Mollusc
  • Sesame
  • Soy
May contain
  • Buckwheat

Not ingredients — these are made or handled on the same equipment as this product, so traces are possible. We list every shared-equipment allergen stated on the pack or by the maker.

Dietary notes

Pork extract is in the noodle and the soup powder, with lard in the soup, and chicken is declared on the pack without being named as an ingredient. It is not vegetarian, pescatarian, 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
Myojo Foods · Tokyo
Made in
Japan
Net contents
One pack: 410 g, five packets of 82 g, each packet one bowl with a soup powder and a pork-oil sachet, of which 70 g is noodles

Our guide

How to eat it

  • Bring water to the boil in a saucepan, the amount printed on the back of the packet as a number followed by ml, then add the noodle and boil it for 90 seconds.
  • Stir the soup powder and the pork oil into the noodle and its cooking water, in the pan or in your bowl: nothing is drained, the cooking water is the broth.

Good to know

  • Eat it straight away: the thin noodle keeps softening in the hot soup.

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In their own words

What Japanese buyers say

  • It's exactly that springy, ultra-thin noodle you get in a ramen shop.

    お店で食べる、あのコシのある極細麺そのもの。

    from monolog, a Japanese review site

  • The noodles were too thin; I wouldn't really call them barikata (very firm).

    麺が細すぎてバリカタではなかったかな。

    from monolog

  • The noodles cook in 90 seconds, so it's ready fast, which I love.

    90秒で麺が茹で上がるから早く出来上がって嬉しい。

    from monolog

  • The soup isn't rich and the noodles are thin, so it doesn't feel like you've had tonkotsu.

    スープが濃厚ではないのに、麺が細いから豚骨食べた満足感がないです。

    from monolog

  • There was almost no porky smell.

    臭みはほとんどなかった。

    from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site

  • It feels like a small amount, so you could easily eat two servings!

    量少なく感じるので二人前食べれちゃいますね！

    from monolog

  • If you like your noodles firm, get everything ready first, then drop the noodles in quickly.

    硬いのが好みの人は、全て準備してからサッと麺を入れてね。

    from monolog

  • The noodles are powdery and don't hold the soup well; not to my taste.

    粉っぽい麺で麺とスープがからみにくい感じで好みじゃない

    from monolog

  • The rich soup and thin noodles really remind me of Hakata ramen (the tonkotsu ramen of the city of Hakata).

    濃厚なスープと細麺はホントに博多のラーメンを思わせる感じです

    from monolog

  • Made exactly as the pack says, this ramen comes out too thin.

    このラーメンは表示の記載通りに作ると薄くてだめです

    from mognavi

  • The soup is rich like a shop's, yet the noodles don't go soggy before you finish, so it disappears in no time; dangerous, in a way.

    お店のような濃厚なスープながら、食べ終わるまで麺がのびず、ペロッといけちゃうので、ある意味悪いヤツ。

    from monolog

  • As the pack says too, the garlic smell is fairly strong.

    パッケージにも書いてますが、ニンニクの香りが強めです。

    from monolog

  • My daughter loves it, so I always buy it when it's on special.

    娘が大好きなので、安売りのときは必ず買ってます。

    from monolog

  • It's the first time a bagged tonkotsu ramen has tasted bad to me.

    とんこつ袋麺を食べて初めてまずいと思いました。

    from mognavi

  • The straight noodles, as thin as hiyamugi (thin wheat noodles), slip down so easily that one bag isn't enough, so I always keep a second ready, like ordering an extra serve of noodles at a ramen shop.

    ひやむぎ位の細いストレート麺が喉越しが良くあっという間に食べれるので一袋じゃ足りないので毎回替え玉みたいに用意しておかわりしてます。

    from mognavi

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The maker

Where it comes from

  • Myojo Foods
  • Tokyo

Myojo first sold this bag in January 2016 as Non-fry Charumera Tonkotsu, the first non-fried packet noodle under the Charumera brand, made to bring the firm, thin noodle of a tonkotsu ramen shop home, and gave it the Barikata name in 2020. Charumera itself first went on sale in 1966 and turned sixty on 7 September 2026.

Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: myojofoods.co.jp (opens in a new tab)