Made byNissin Food ProductsOsaka, Japan
Nissin Cup Noodle Curry BIG Japanese Curry Cup 121g
The big cup of Nissin's Cup Noodle, in the curry flavour: the size Japanese convenience stores carry.
Regular price $6.49AUD
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Why we say this
Nissin invented the instant noodle cup in 1971, and by its own count in 2021 had sold 50 billion Cup Noodles worldwide: that figure is the whole brand, not this flavour. Curry joined the line in 1973, and this 120 g BIG cup on its own carries 7,919 verified-purchaser ratings on the Japanese review site Monolog (checked August 2026).
Product information
About
The big cup of Nissin's Cup Noodle, in the curry flavour: the size Japanese convenience stores carry. Japanese curry is sweet, thick and mild, closer to a gravy than to anything hot, and this one has fried potato, carrot and Nissin's freeze-dried pork mince sitting on top of the noodles. If you ate one of these from a Japanese convenience store at midnight, this is that cup.
On the pack: カップヌードル カレー ビッグ (kappu nūdoru karē biggu). Look for the word BIG above the curry lettering.
Cup Noodle Curry comes in three sizes in Japan. Mini, regular and BIG. This is BIG, the convenience-store size, and the step up is real: 120 g against the regular cup's 87 g.
What you're getting
- Japanese curry, which is its own thing: thickened with flour and starch into something closer to gravy than soup, sweetened, and rounded out with cheese and peanut butter. It is mild: gentle, home-style curry rather than a hot one.
- Thick noodles, and a lot of them: a 120 g cup against the regular cup's 87 g, with 85 g of it noodles. The soup clings to them rather than sitting underneath.
- The brown cubes are the famous bit: Nissin left them unexplained for 46 years until they became a national in-joke, 謎肉 (nazoniku), "mystery meat". The company gave the answer in September 2017, inside a Detective Conan manga: minced pork extended with soy protein, then freeze-dried.
- It is a meal, not a snack: a full lunch on its own where the regular cup is not, and a salty one.
- Allergens: contains wheat, egg, milk, peanut, sesame, soy and apple, plus chicken and pork, which Japan declares and Australia does not. Our list follows the maker's own Japanese label.
- Also on the label: Australian labels don't have to flag apple as an allergen, and the ingredient list does not say where it comes from, so if you avoid apple, skip it. Peanut butter is an ingredient, not a trace warning.
A few things worth knowing before it arrives. The fill line is moulded into the inside wall of the cup rather than printed on the outside, and it takes 380 mL, more than a regular cup, so boil a full kettle. There is pork in it: in the meat pieces, and pork fat in the soup. This is the Japanese domestic cup, 120 g, made in Japan.
Ingredients
Fried noodles (wheat flour (produced in Japan), vegetable oil, salt, sugars, soy sauce, pork extract, chicken extract, flavour seasoning), soup (pork fat, curry powder, wheat flour, onion, starch, sugars, flavour seasoning, onion seasoning, margarine, pork seasoning, powdered soy sauce, processed cheese, carrot, peanut butter, salt, skim milk powder, hydrolysed protein, powdered sauce, tomato powder, spices, yeast extract, egg powder, natural cheese), dried toppings (processed pork mince with soy protein, fried potato, carrot, onion, spring onion)
processed starch, flavour enhancers (amino acids etc.), emulsifier, caramel colour, calcium carbonate, flavouring, kansui (alkaline noodle salts), thickeners (polysaccharides), carotenoid colour, spice extract, acidity regulator, antioxidant (vitamin E), smoke flavouring, vitamin B2, vitamin B1.
Nissin renewed this cup in late 2025 under the same barcode, so either recipe may reach you. The list above is the current one. In the earlier version the meat pieces were seasoned pork mince rather than the soy-extended pork mince described above; egg, milk, peanut, soy and sesame were in that version too.
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
- Peanut
- Sesame
- Soy
- Apple
- May contain
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None declared — the pack's labels name no shared-equipment allergen.
- Dietary notes
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Pork runs right through it: pork mince pieces extended with soy protein, pork fat in the soup, and pork extract and seasoning, while chicken is in it only as an extract in the noodle.
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.
Nutrition
| Per cup (121 g) | Per 100 g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 2502 kJ (598 kcal) | 2068 kJ (494 kcal) |
| Protein | 12.6 g | 10.4 g |
| Fat | 30.6 g | 25.3 g |
| Carbohydrate | 68.1 g | 56.3 g |
| Sodium | 2205 mg | 1822 mg |
From the Japanese pack's nutrition panel — not the Australian nutrition information panel. The Japanese pack gives no saturated fat or sugars figure. The per-100 g column, the kJ figures and sodium (from the pack's salt equivalent, 食塩相当量, ÷ 2.54) are our calculation.
Details
- Maker
- Nissin Food Products · Osaka
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One cup: 120–121 g depending on the pack, of which 85 g is noodles
Our guide
How to eat it
- Peel the lid back halfway and pour boiling water slowly to the line moulded inside the cup: 380 mL, more than a regular-size cup takes.
- Close the lid and wait 3 minutes.
- Stir the soup through properly, or the curry sits in clumps at the bottom.
Good to know
- Once it's stirred, melt in some cheese or add an egg, raw or soft.
- Save the soup: in Japan the accepted way to finish this cup is to tip hot cooked rice into what's left and eat it as curry rice.
- Keep it at room temperature, out of the sun and away from anything strong-smelling, which the cup can pick up.
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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
Glad it's such a big portion. I'm full.
大容量うれしいです。お腹いっぱい
mentioned in 16 of 78 reviews we readfrom monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they grumble about
Supermarkets hardly ever sell the BIG size, so every so often I buy a few at a time somewhere cheap, like a discount store.
スーパーにはあまりビッグサイズが売ってないので、たまにディスカウントストア等安いとこで毎回何個か買ってます。
mentioned in 7 of 78 reviews we readfrom monolog
Our tip: In Japan the BIG cup is largely a convenience-store format — supermarkets there stock the regular size.
- What they like
The fat noodles and the gloopy soup suit each other, and I like that it really feels like eating curry.
太麺とドロッとしたスープとの相性がよくて、カレーを食べている感があるのが良いです。
mentioned in 1 of 15 reviews we readfrom cupramen.site
- What they grumble about
The curry flavour felt weak to me — maybe because it's the BIG? The medium size has just the right curry punch.
カレー味が薄く感じたけどBIGだからかな？ 中サイズがちょうどカレー味が効いてる
from monolog
Our tip: Stir it through properly after the 3 minutes: the maker's own instructions for this cup say to stir it well.
- What they like
Put rice into the soup and it's the best!
お汁の中にライスを入れたら最高！
mentioned in 5 of 78 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they grumble about
narrow and flat – very standard
from ramen-rater
- What they like
The gentle, home-cooked-curry-like flavour is a relief.
家庭のカレーのような優しい味にほっとします
mentioned in 1 of 15 reviews we readfrom cupramen.site
- What they grumble about
High in calories.
カロリー高い
mentioned in 2 of 78 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
Cup noodle curry because curry. Curry is life.
from reddit.com
- What they grumble about
Too much salt.
塩分は多すぎ
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
- Nissin Food Products
- Osaka
Nissin made the world's first instant noodle in 1958, a bag of Chicken Ramen, and then, thirteen years later, invented the cup. Cup Noodle launched on 18 September 1971.
Curry arrived in the line in May 1973 and has never left it.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: nissin.com (opens in a new tab)
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