Made byMyojo FoodsTokyo, Japan
Myojo Charumera Shoyu Ramen Packet Japanese Soy Sauce Ramen Noodles 5 x 97g
This is a bag of five packets of Japanese soy-sauce ramen you cook in a saucepan, each with a soup powder and a small spice sachet.
Regular price $15.39AUD
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Why we say this
Soy sauce is the flavour Charumera launched with in 1966, and this five-pack of it has been sold in Japan since August 1990.
Product information
About
This is a bag of five packets of Japanese soy-sauce ramen you cook in a saucepan, each with a soup powder and a small spice sachet. The soup is a clear, brown soy-sauce broth, savoury but not heavy, and the noodles are medium-thin and fried. Buy it for plain, old-fashioned shoyu ramen, the everyday kind many Japanese people grew up on; if you want a rich, creamy broth like tonkotsu (pork bone), this is the wrong bag.
On the pack: チャルメラ しょうゆ. Charumera (cha-roo-meh-ra) is the brand; shoyu (show-yoo) means soy sauce.
What you're getting
- Soy sauce is the original Charumera flavour. It is the recipe the brand launched with in 1966.
- The scallop sits in the background rather than tasting of seafood: scallop is worked into the noodle dough, and the soup carries scallop and clam extract.
- The second sachet is a blend of spices, sprinkled over at the end, so you can use less of it or leave it off.
- The noodles are medium-thin and fried, smooth and supple rather than chewy.
- Allergens: contains wheat, milk, soy and molluscs (scallop and clam). Japanese labels don't have to flag molluscs as allergens, so the pack names them only in its ingredient list (scallop extract, shellfish 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 beef seasoning, and the pack declares chicken, pork and gelatine as well. Anyone who avoids beef, pork or meat should skip it. It is made on equipment that also handles egg and shrimp.
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. A shoyu Charumera bag of 92 g packets is a reissue of the old recipe, and the Charumera shoyu cup has its own noodle and toppings: both are different products from this one.
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, sugars, soy sauce, flavour seasoning, spices, shellfish extract, hydrolysed protein, beef seasoning, starch, vegetable oil and fat, spring onion)
modified starch, flavour enhancer (amino acids etc.), calcium carbonate, caramel colour, kansui (alkaline noodle salts), thickener (tamarind seed gum), antioxidant (vitamin E), acidity regulator, flavouring, carotenoid colour, vitamin B2, silicon dioxide, vitamin B1, spice extract (contains milk, wheat, beef, 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
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- Wheat
- Milk
- Soy
- Mollusc
- May contain
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- Egg
- Crustacean
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
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Beef seasoning is in the soup powder, and chicken, pork 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: 485 g, five packets of 97 g, each packet one bowl with a soup powder and a spice 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 spice sachet over the top just before you eat.
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In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
For soy-sauce ramen, it's still Charumera for me.
醤油はやっぱりチャルメラが好きです。
from monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they grumble about
The noodles felt thin and limp.
めんが細くふにゃふにゃした感じ。
from monolog
- What they like
This plain, unshowy taste, nostalgic and comforting, was delicious.
この奇をてらわない味、懐かしくてホッとする味で美味しかった。
from monolog
- Mixed feelings
I love Charumera's noodles; the soup seems a little on the salty side.
チャルメラの麺が好きです、スープは若干、しょっぱぞるような気がします
from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site
- What they like
The magic spice you sprinkle on at the end is good too.
後でかける魔法のスパイスも美味しいです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
An old-style fried noodle; the slurpy texture isn't bad, but it has too little bite, so it's not really my type.
昔ながらの油揚げ麺でチュルチュルした食感は悪くないけど、コシが弱くて個人的にはイマイチ好きでないタイプ…^^;
from mognavi
- What they like
The curly noodles hold the soup, and the soup itself is good, so it's gone in no time.
ちぢれ麺とスープが絡んでスープ自体も美味しいのであっという間に完食してしまいます。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
So-so taste, and the noodles are absurdly thin.
いまいちの味 面が異常に細い
from monolog
- What they like
But… adding an egg is a must!
でも…卵投入は必須ですね！
from mognavi
- What they like
Given how the soup tastes, I don't think a thick noodle would suit it.
スープの味を考えたら、太麺は合わないと思います。
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
- Myojo Foods
- Tokyo
Charumera went on sale in September 1966 with this soy-sauce flavour and a separate spice sachet, and it sold so fast that the maker ran short of some ingredients. The brand turned sixty on 7 September 2026, and since September 2025 the scallop in its noodle, soup and spice has all 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)
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