Product information
About
Japanese cup yakisoba, fried noodles you drain and toss through a sauce, not a soup, in the salt version rather than the dark brown sauce most cup yakisoba come in. Expect sesame oil and garlic before you taste any salt, and expect it rich: this is the opposite of a light noodle, whatever "salt" suggests. There is a garlic mayonnaise sachet, and how much of it goes on is your call.
Japan treats three cup yakisoba as the choice, and this is the third of them: behind Nissin's U.F.O. and Peyoung in two national polls run seven months apart, which rank the brand rather than this particular flavour. It is the only one of the three built on salt and mayonnaise instead of brown sauce.
明星 一平ちゃん夜店の焼そば やみつき塩だれ味. Ippei-chan Yomise no Yakisoba, Yamitsuki Shiodare. Roughly "ip-pay-chan"; yomise are the stalls at a summer festival, yamitsuki means moreish and shiodare is the salt sauce it is named for.
What you're getting
- Taste: sesame oil and garlic lead, pork stock sits behind them, and black pepper and chilli come in the dry sprinkle. Everyday supermarket food in Japan, not a premium line.
- Texture: thin noodles with a definite chew, and thin enough that the sauce and the mayonnaise coat the strands.
- The mayonnaise is yours to judge: a separate sachet you draw over the top at the end, and it is still good with none at all.
- The honest caveat: it is rich and it is oily; treat one cup as a meal rather than a light lunch. And there is real garlic in it, which is worth knowing before company.
- Allergens: contains wheat, egg, milk, soy and sesame, plus pork and chicken, which Japan declares and Australia does not. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
- Also on the label: made on equipment that also handles prawn, crab and walnut, and the sprinkle's seaweed is harvested by a method that catches prawn and crab.
It is a standard single serve at 130 g, not one of the big cups. And if you have had Ippei-chan before, it was most likely the brown-sauce one with mustard mayonnaise; this is the salt one, with garlic mayonnaise instead.
Ingredients
Fried noodles (wheat flour (produced in Japan), vegetable oil, salt, onion powder), sauce (mayonnaise, soy sauce, sugars, pork fat, vegetable oil, salt, pork extract, hydrolysed protein, flavoured oil, flavour seasoning, spices (garlic, pepper)), garnish (cabbage), seasoning sprinkle (spices, aosa seaweed)
seasonings (amino acids etc.), calcium carbonate, kansui (alkaline noodle salts), alcohol, flavouring, thickening polysaccharides, acidulant, carotenoid colour, antioxidant (vitamin E), caramel colour, spice extract, magnesium carbonate, vitamin B2, vitamin B1. Contains egg, milk, wheat, 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
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- Wheat
- Egg
- Milk
- Soy
- Sesame
- May contain
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- Prawn
- 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
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The sauce contains pork lard and a pork extract. Chicken is on the maker's contains-list too, but appears under none of the ingredient names, so where it enters is not published.
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 · Tokyo
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One cup: 130 g, of which 100 g is noodles
Our guide
How to eat it
- Take the three sachets out of the cup.
- Pour in 540 mL of boiling water.
- Close the lid and wait 3 minutes.
- Tip the water out completely through the drain spout before anything else goes in: sauce onto wet noodles goes thin and slides off the strands.
- The salt sauce goes on next: stir the liquid sachet right through the drained noodles.
- The garlic mayonnaise is the finisher, drawn back and forth across the top. Use the whole sachet for the rich version, or hold half back.
- The small dry sachet goes on to taste.
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
Strong sesame-oil and garlic flavour, and it's good. It's salt, but it has its own kind of richness, different from the sauce version.
ごま油やニンニクの風味がしっかりしていて美味しい。塩だけど、ソースとは別のこってり感がある。
mentioned in 7 of 80 reviews we readfrom monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they grumble about
Having tried it, I thought the sauce one tastes better than the salt sauce.
食べてみて、塩だれよりソースのほうがおいしいしと思いました。
mentioned in 3 of 80 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
They're thin noodles, so the sauce and the mayo cling to them really well — delicious.
細麺でソースやマヨがよく絡んでおいしいです。
from monolog
- What they like
Zig-zagging the mayonnaise over the top rounded everything out and turned the salt sauce properly rich.
マヨビームを打つとまろやかさが増し、濃厚な塩ダレに変わりました。
from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site
- What they grumble about
Fairly oily. It sits heavily on the stomach.
油っけ多め。胃に強く当たる。
mentioned in 3 of 80 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
A taste I'd never had before and can't quite name — sesame oil? chilli oil? Very good, and I'm hooked.
なんとも言えない初めて食べた味 ゴマ油の味？ラー油？ とても美味しくて、ハマってしまう
from monolog
- What they like
It's less heavy than it looks — if anything it's on the clean side, and easy to get through.
見た目よりこってりしていなくて、どちらかというとさっぱりって感じで、食べやすかった。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
And the only thing in it is cabbage, which isn't enough.
具もキャベツのみで物足りない。
from mognavi
- What they like
Repeat-bought it countless times! I don't eat UFO or Peyoung at all — Ippei-chan is number one!!
もう何回もリピ！ カップ焼きそばはUFOもペヤングも全然食べない 一平ちゃんが１番！！
mentioned in 8 of 80 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
I forgot it was garlic mayonnaise and squeezed the whole lot in, but I don't think it smells that strong.
ニンニク入りマヨネーズと言う事を忘れて全部入れてしまいましたがそこまで臭くないと思います。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
There's garlic in it, so I reckon you'd want to skip it before going out, haha.
ガーリック入ってるのでお出かけする時は控えといた方がいいと思いましたｗ
mentioned in 3 of 80 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
It's good with just the salt flavour, and good with the garlic mayonnaise on it too.
塩味だけでも美味しいし、ガーリックマヨネーズかけても美味しい。
from monolog
- What they like
The new onion-kneaded noodle isn't obviously oniony when you eat it, but it blends into the sauce and seems to stop the fried-noodle smell from standing out.
今回からの「オニオン練り込み麺」は、特に練り込まれていることがすぐわかるようなわかりやすい感じではなかったですが、ソースになじんで油揚げ麺臭が悪目立ちするのを防ぐ効果があるように思います。
from cupmen.org
- What they grumble about
There was a lot of it, so I only just got through the second half — the opening mouthfuls are probably the good bit.
ボリュームがあったので後半やっと食べましたが出だしは美味しいかも
from monolog
- What they like
My kids are salt-yakisoba people rather than sauce, so when I spotted this cup version I bought it — apparently it was delicious.
子供はソース焼きそばより塩焼きそば派なので、カップ麺でこれを見つけて購入〜美味しかったそうです。
from monolog
- What they like
It works as an everyday meal and as emergency food, so you can keep a stock of it!
普段用としても非常食用としてもたべられるので、ストックしておいておけます！
from monolog
- What they grumble about
The mayonnaise and the sprinkle, the sprinkle especially, are far too small for the amount of noodles…
マヨネーズとふりかけ、特にふりかけが麺の量に対して少な過ぎますね…。
from mognavi
Our tip: Your own mayonnaise tops the sachet up, and a pinch of black pepper and chilli flakes stands in for more sprinkle.
- What they like
I normally buy the sauce yakisoba, but the heat made me pick up the salt one this time.
普段はソース焼きそばの方を買うのですが、暑さで塩の方を買って食べました。
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
- Tokyo
Myojo counts one technique among its strengths: kneading seasoning into the noodle dough itself rather than leaving everything to the sauce. That is what the onion is doing in this one.
Ippei-chan arrived in 1993, and the yomise yakisoba followed in 1995. Yomise are the food stalls that line a summer festival, and the idea was to put that plate of griddled noodles into a cup, with a sachet of mayonnaise to draw over the top. The mayonnaise is the part that made the brand famous. This salt version joined the line in 2006, so 2026 is its twentieth year.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: myojofoods.co.jp (opens in a new tab)
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