The big cup
Nissin Cup Noodle Chilli Tomato BIG — Japanese Ramen Cup, 109g
$6.05
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Nissin Cup Noodle Chilli Tomato Regular — Japanese Ramen, 76g
$3.99
$5.25 per 100 g
Product information
About
A tomato soup with noodles in it: sweet and gently sour, spiced with cumin and oregano over a pork stock. Closer to a thin arrabbiata (the spicy tomato pasta sauce) than to anything else in a noodle cup. Despite the name it is barely hot. This is the big cup, and it is the one Nissin upgraded.
カップヌードル チリトマトヌードル ビッグ, chiri tomato biggu, the tomato one in the big size.
What you're getting
- The size that got the upgrade. In August 2025 Nissin overhauled the big cups for the first time in a decade, and chilli tomato gained the most of the four, roughly 37% more toppings in the cup.
- Tomato first, chilli second. The soup leads on tomato sweetness and a clean acidity; the chilli is a warmth at the back rather than heat you have to brace for.
- Cumin and oregano do the real work. They are what make it taste unlike every other cup on the shelf, smoky and slightly Mexican rather than Italian, once you notice them.
- A slightly thicker, firmer noodle that the soup clings to, and five dried toppings loose in the cup: cabbage, tomato, corn, green beans, and the enlarged mince Japan calls nazoniku, "mystery meat", a joke Nissin leaned into for decades before confirming it is pork and soy protein.
- There is cheese in the soup powder. Both processed and natural cheese, which is why milk is declared, not something you would expect to find in a noodle cup.
- The honest caveat: for something called Chilli Tomato, there is not much chilli in it, enough to notice if you are genuinely heat-shy, nowhere near enough if you came looking for it.
- Allergens: contains wheat, egg, milk, sesame, soy, apple, and mollusc in the form of clam seasoning.
- Allergens, the two chart gaps: Japan's chart has no mollusc category, so clam sits in the pack's ingredient list rather than its allergen box. Australia's chart has no apple category either, so apple cannot appear in an allergen box here. Check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.
It also contains pork, and chicken hidden inside the seasoning where you would not think to look. This is the Japanese domestic cup. The Nissin cups Coles ranges are a locally supplied range in different flavours, which is most of why they cost less, and Coles ranges no chilli tomato at all. The lid is aluminium, so never microwave it in its own cup; Nissin warns of fire risk. If you are choosing between the two sizes, this is the bigger one, and it leaves you enough soup to finish it with rice.
Ingredients
The maker's ingredient list, translated from the Japanese pack. Anything after the break is an additive — the Japanese label lists those separately.
Fried noodles (wheat flour (made in Japan), vegetable oil, salt, hydrolysed protein, pork extract, savoury seasoning), soup (tomato powder, sugars, hydrolysed protein, lard, spice seasoning, vegetable seasoning, pork seasoning, savoury seasoning, garlic seasoning, clam seasoning, salt, processed cheese, spices, natural cheese), toppings (processed pork mince with soy protein, cabbage, processed tomato paste, corn, green beans)
processed starch, flavour enhancers (amino acids etc.), flavouring, emulsifier, calcium carbonate, thickener (polysaccharides), kansui (alkaline noodle salts), monascus colour, spice extract, carotenoid colour, acidity regulator, caramel colour, antioxidant (vitamin E), magnesium carbonate, smoke flavour, vitamin B2, vitamin B1.
The printed label on the pack is always the authority on ingredients and allergens, not this page — please read it in full before you rely on our summary. If you are unsure about an ingredient, contact us.
Allergens
The maker declares:
- Allergens
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- Wheat
- Egg
- Milk
- Sesame
- Soy
- Apple
- Mollusc
- Dietary notes
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The soup carries pork fat, pork extract and pork seasoning. There is chicken in it as well, hidden inside the savoury seasoning rather than listed on its own line, so you will not find the word by reading the ingredients. There is also clam seasoning in the tomato base. It is not vegetarian, not halal and not kosher.
The printed label on the pack is always the authority on ingredients and allergens, not this page — please read it in full before you rely on our summary. If you are unsure about an ingredient, contact us.
Details
- Maker
- Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd.
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One cup: 109 g, of which 85 g is noodles
Our guide
How to eat it
- The Japanese finish for this cup is a bowl of tomato risotto: drop a slice of melting cheese in partway through, then stir leftover rice into what is left of the soup once the noodles are gone, there is more soup here to do it with than in the regular cup.
- Look down into the cup before you pour: the fill line is moulded into the inside wall, not printed on the outside. Fill to it, about 380 mL of boiling water, then leave it for the time printed on the lid.
- Never microwave it in its own cup: Nissin warns of fire risk from the aluminium lid, so tip it into a microwave-safe dish first.
- If you want it properly hot you will have to do that yourself, with chilli flakes or a few drops of Tabasco stirred in at the end.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
I don't like tomato dishes in general. I'm no good with spicy food either. And yet this is a tag-team of the two things I'm bad with — and it's incredibly good!
私はトマト系の料理が全般好きじゃない。辛い食べ物も苦手だ。それなのに、私の苦手同士がタッグを組んだ食べ物なのに、めちゃくちゃ美味しい！
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Lately they're selling the one with bigger ingredients, but personally, frankly, I don't need more mystery meat — I'd rather they added a bit more noodle.
最近具を大きくしたやつが売ってますが、個人的好みで言えばぶっちゃけ謎肉は多くなくていいからもう少し麺を増やして欲しいです。
from monolog
- What they like
Compared with the regular Cup Noodle the soup isn't cloying — it's lighter, so it was easy to eat.
普通のカップヌードルに比べて、スープの味がしつこくなく、あっさりしていたので食べやすかった。
from monolog
- What they like
After you've finished, putting melting cheese and rice in to make a risotto is delicious too. Even when one cup isn't enough, this flavour handles it.
食べ終わった後に溶けるチーズとご飯を入れてリゾットにしてもおいしい。１個だけだと足りないときでもこの味なら大丈夫。
from monolog
- What they like
Are they leaning it towards pasta? The slightly thicker, firmer noodle goes well with the chilli-tomato soup.
パスタに寄せているのかな？少し太めで固めの麺がチリトマトスープによくあっている😄
from cupramen.site
- What they grumble about
I know in my head it's probably not that good for me, but sometimes I want the easy option and end up eating it.
体にはあまり良くないのだろうとは頭でわかっていますが時々楽をしたくて食べてしまいます。
from monolog
- What they like
The increased portion is just right! It was incredibly good! I want it again!!
増量ぐらいがちょうどいい！めちゃくちゃ美味しかった！また食べたい！！
from cupramen.site
Real quotes from Japanese review sites (monolog, cupramen.site), translated by us. We show no star rating from those sites.
The maker
Where it comes from
- Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd.
Nissin put the world's first cup-type instant noodle on sale on 18 September 1971, sold from a street stall outside Isetan in Shinjuku.
Chilli Tomato has been in the range since the early 1980s, one of the oldest flavours Nissin still makes. The wheat in the noodles is milled partly from Australian grain; the tomato powder comes from Spain and the tomato paste from Portugal.
In August 2025 the big cups were rebuilt for the first time in ten years, and this was the flavour that gained the most.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: nissin.com (opens in a new tab)
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Nissin Cup Noodle Chilli Tomato BIG — Japanese Ramen Cup, 109g
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