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Myojo Charumera Miso Ramen Packet Japanese Instant Noodles 5 x 99g

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Made byMyojo FoodsTokyo, Japan

Myojo Charumera Miso Ramen Packet Japanese Instant Noodles 5 x 99g

This is a bag of five packets of Japanese miso ramen you cook in a saucepan, each with a soup powder and a small chilli sachet.

Regular price $15.39AUD

$3.11 per 100 g

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Why we say this

This miso five-pack has been sold in Japan since August 1990, as part of 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 miso ramen you cook in a saucepan, each with a soup powder and a small chilli sachet. The soup is a mild, gentle miso rather than a strong one, and the noodles are fried and medium-thick. Buy it for an easy everyday miso ramen; if you want a rich, punchy miso broth, this is the wrong bag.

On the pack: チャルメラ みそ. Charumera (cha-roo-meh-ra) is the brand; miso is fermented soybean paste, the base of the soup.

What you're getting

  • A mild miso. The soup is gentle rather than punchy, so if you want a strong miso flavour you may find it thin.
  • The second sachet is shichimi, a Japanese chilli blend with sesame, sprinkled on at the end, so you choose how hot it gets.
  • The noodles are medium-thick and fried, thicker than the noodles in the Charumera soy-sauce and salt bags.
  • The scallop sits in the background rather than tasting of seafood: it is worked into the noodle dough and the soup, alongside pork extract, ginger and garlic.
  • Allergens: contains wheat, egg, milk, crustaceans (shrimp), fish (mackerel), 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: the soup carries pork extract, and the pack declares chicken and gelatine as well. Anyone who avoids pork or meat should skip it. It is made on equipment that also handles crab and walnut.

The toppings pictured on the bag are a serving idea: each packet holds the noodle block and its two sachets, nothing else. It is made by Myojo Foods of Japan. Charumera's original flavour is soy sauce; this is its miso.

Ingredients

Fried noodles (wheat flour (made in Japan), vegetable oil and fat, salt, scallop extract, milk protein, seasoned ponzu (a citrus soy seasoning)); soup (salt, miso, sugars, yeast extract, spices (shichimi chilli blend, garlic, ginger, red chilli), dextrin, sesame, hydrolysed protein, pork extract, roast onion powder, spring onion, scallop extract, vegetable oil and fat, flavour seasoning)

modified starch, flavour enhancer (amino acids etc.), calcium carbonate, kansui (alkaline noodle salts), caramel colour, flavouring, thickener (tamarind seed gum), antioxidant (vitamin E), carotenoid colour, vitamin B2, vitamin B1, acidity regulator (contains egg, milk, wheat, shrimp, sesame, mackerel, soy, chicken, pork and gelatine)

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
  • Fish
  • Mollusc
  • Sesame
  • Soy
May contain
  • Crab
  • Walnut

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 soup powder, and chicken and gelatine are declared on the pack without being named as ingredients. 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: 495 g, five packets of 99 g, each packet one bowl with a soup powder and a chilli sachet, of which 90 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 block and boil it for the time printed beside it, a number followed by 分, the Japanese character for minutes.
  • Stir the soup powder into the noodles and their cooking water, in the pan or in your bowl: nothing is drained, the cooking water is the broth.
  • Sprinkle the small chilli sachet over the top just before you eat.

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In their own words

What Japanese buyers say

  • It doesn't hit you hard with miso, but it's gentle and tasty!

    ガツンと味噌の風味が来るとはなりませんが、優しい味わいで美味しいです！

    from monolog, a Japanese review site

  • The noodles are a letdown.

    麺が残念。

    from monolog

  • I eat it with cabbage and egg added.

    キャベツと卵を入れて食べています

    from monolog

  • This is a miso that leans towards soy sauce, with no miso depth, and it's salty.

    こちらは醤油寄りの味噌で、味噌のコクは無く、しょっぱい。

    from rakuten, a Japanese online shopping site

  • For miso ramen, Charumera is my only choice now.

    味噌ラーメンは今はチャルメラ一択です。

    from rakuten

  • The flat noodle really doesn't suit it.

    平麺は、かなり合わないです

    from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site

  • When it's cold in winter, I even have it in the morning to warm up.

    冬場の寒い時は、朝から食べたりして温まってます。

    from monolog

  • The soup tastes like it's missing something.

    スープの味が物足りなく感じる。

    from monolog

  • I never read the method, but making my second bag I happened to look, and learned for the first time that with Charumera the soup powder goes in the bowl and you pour the noodles' cooking water over it.

    いつも作り方を見ないで作りますが２袋目を作るときになにげに見てみたらチャルメラの場合スープ粉末を丼に入れておいて麺を茹でたお湯を丼に注ぐ事を初めて知りました。

    from monolog

  • The slightly thick noodle is good.

    ちょい太麺が、いい。

    from mognavi

  • It's not that tasty as it comes, but made with milk from a recipe idea, it's good.

    そのままだとあまり美味しくないけど、アレンジレシピ参考にして牛乳で作ると美味しい

    from monolog

  • It's sold as miso ramen, but it tasted to me as if butter had been added too.

    味噌ラーメンとして売っているがさらにバターが加わった風合いに感じた

    from rakuten

  • I add bean sprouts, mince and doubanjiang (chilli bean paste), and in summer I eat it sweating!

    もやし＋ひき肉に豆板醤をプラスして夏は汗をかきながら食べます！

    from monolog

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The maker

Where it comes from

  • Myojo Foods
  • Tokyo

Charumera first went on sale in September 1966 and turned sixty on 7 September 2026, and this miso bag joined the range in August 1990. Since September 2025 all of the scallop worked into its noodle and soup has come from Hokkaido, Japan's northern island.

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