{"product_id":"nissin-cup-noodle-curry-big","title":"Nissin Cup Noodle Curry BIG — Japanese Curry Cup Noodle, 121g","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 at a konbini at midnight, this is that cup.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCup 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJapanese curry, which is its own thing\u003c\/strong\u003e: thickened with flour and starch into something closer to gravy than soup, sweetened, and rounded out with cheese and peanut butter. It is mild: Japanese reviewers describe it as gentle, home-style curry rather than a hot one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThick noodles, and a lot of them\u003c\/strong\u003e: a 120 g cup against the regular cup's 87 g, with 85 g of it noodles. Japanese reviewers keep describing the soup as clinging to them rather than sitting underneath.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe brown cubes are the famous bit\u003c\/strong\u003e: Nissin left them unexplained for 46 years until they became a national in-joke, 謎肉, \"mystery meat\". The company gave the answer in September 2017, inside a \u003cem\u003eDetective Conan\u003c\/em\u003e manga: minced pork extended with soy protein, then freeze-dried.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is a meal, not a snack\u003c\/strong\u003e: 120 g, and a salty one. Japanese reviewers are consistent about the trade: the regular size leaves you hungry and this one doesn't.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk, \u003cstrong\u003epeanut\u003c\/strong\u003e, sesame, soy and apple, plus chicken and pork, which Japan declares and Australia does not.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens, one more\u003c\/strong\u003e: Australia's allergen chart has no apple category, so apple cannot appear in the pack's allergen box here — check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list. Peanut butter is an ingredient, not a trace warning, and sesame is declared for shared equipment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA few things worth knowing before it arrives.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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. It is not vegetarian and not halal: there is pork in the meat pieces and pork fat in the soup. And if the Nissin cups you know are the ones in Australian supermarkets, this is a different product: those are 72 to 75 g cups supplied for this market and made outside Japan, and this is the Japanese domestic cup, 120 g, made in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nissin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48223197004002,"sku":"SH-NDL-0003","price":6.29,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/nissin-cup-noodle-curry-big-cup.webp?v=1786950413","url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/products\/nissin-cup-noodle-curry-big","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}