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Nissin Cup Noodle Seafood — Japanese Cup Ramen, 75g
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Nissin Cup Noodle Seafood BIG — Japanese Instant Ramen Cup, 105g
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Product information
About
Nissin's seafood cup noodle in the regular size: the 75 g cup as it is sold in Japan. The broth is the cloudy kind, built on pork and chicken with clam and seafood layered over the top, so it lands rich and faintly creamy rather than fishy, closer to a mild chowder than to anything from a ramen shop. Seafood Noodle was the second best-selling cup ramen by sales value across Japanese supermarkets in 2024–25. If you had one in Japan and want that exact cup, this is it.
On the pack it reads カップヌードル シーフードヌードル, just "Cup Noodle Seafood Noodle" written in Japanese, so you can check the cup that arrives is the right one.
Cup Noodle comes in three sizes in Japan: Mini 38 g, regular 75 g and BIG 105 g. This is the regular cup, 60 g of it noodles, the everyday size.
What you're getting
- Not the supermarket cup: Coles sells a Nissin seafood cup at 72 g whose own product page says it is made in China. This is the 75 g cup from Nissin's Japanese range, made in Japan. Three grams apart, and a different product.
- What is actually floating in it: squid, crab-flavoured surimi, seasoned egg, cabbage and spring onion. The crab stick is kanikama, a fish surimi shaped and coloured to look like crab. Nissin declares crab as an allergen on it, so if you react to shellfish, treat this as containing crab.
- It is a pork broth underneath: pork and chicken seasoning lead the soup, with clam and seafood over the top. Worth knowing before you buy: it is not vegetarian, and it is not halal.
- A salty cup, and about half of that salt sits in the broth. Finishing the soup or leaving it changes the meal quite a bit either way.
- No prawn, despite the name: the shellfish here is crab, squid and clam.
- Allergens: contains crab, squid, clam, fish, wheat, egg, milk, sesame and soy, plus chicken and pork seasonings and a gelatine Nissin does not source, none an allergen. Japan's chart has no clam or fish category, so those sit in the ingredient list — check it, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.
Do not microwave it. The American Cup Noodles come in a paper cup you can microwave and this one does not, the lid is aluminium. Tip it into a bowl first if you want to reheat it.
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 (produced in Japan), vegetable oil and fat, salt, hydrolysed protein, soy sauce, spices), soup (chicken seasoning, pork seasoning, sugars, spices, powdered soy sauce, food consisting mainly of milk components, carrot seasoning, hydrolysed protein, clam seasoning, vegetable seasoning oil, fermented seasoning, red pickled ginger, salt), garnish (fish paste product, cabbage, seasoned egg, squid, spring onion)
modified starch, seasoning (amino acids etc.), flavouring, calcium carbonate, spice extract, kansui (alkaline noodle salts), thickening polysaccharide, carotene colour, caramel colour, acidity regulator, antioxidant (vitamin E), calcium chloride, emulsifier, gardenia colour, monascus colour, magnesium carbonate, 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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- Crab
- Squid
- Clam
- Fish
- Wheat
- Egg
- Milk
- Sesame
- Soy
- Dietary notes
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The broth is built on pork and chicken seasonings. Gelatine is declared on the pack as well, and Nissin does not publish what it is made from.
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.
- Prefecture
- Osaka
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One cup: 75 g, of which 60 g is noodles
Our guide
How to eat it
- Swap half the water for warm milk: the broth turns creamy and moves towards chowder. A slice of cheese and a good grind of black pepper takes it further again.
- When the noodles are gone, tip cooked rice into what is left: the broth is seasoned enough to need nothing added.
- Boiling water to the line moulded inside the cup, about 300 mL, then lid down for the time on the pack: look for a numeral followed by 分, the Japanese character for minutes.
- Do not microwave it: the lid is aluminium, so tip it into a bowl first if you want to reheat it.
- Eat it promptly: the noodles keep softening, so if you like them firm, do not let it sit.
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
The standard taste. Tasty, plenty of bits too, you can't go wrong. A cup noodle I want to keep in stock permanently.
定番の味。美味い、具も結構あるしこれは間違いなし。常時ストックしておきたいカップ麺。
mentioned in 7 of 39 reviews we read
- What they grumble about
The "almost-squid" is tough, isn't it. Cost-cutting? Not buying it again.
ほぼイカは固いかな。コストカット？もう買わない。
- What they like
Loads of seafood, veg and egg bits… and the broth has real dashi so it eats light.
魚介と野菜卵の具が沢山入っていて…スープもダシが効いていてあっさり食べれます。
mentioned in 5 of 39 reviews we read
- What they like
Big bits. Strong flavour. Heartier than the salt one, lighter than the soy one.
具が大きい 味が濃い 塩よりはがっつりだけど、醤油よりはあっさり
mentioned in 4 of 39 reviews we read
- What they grumble about
No complaints on flavour, but the noodles soften fast — if you like them firm it's a race against the clock.
味は文句ないが、麺がすぐ柔らかくなるから、硬め好きにはタイミング勝負
Our tip: If you like a firm noodle, eat it as soon as the time on the lid is up — it keeps softening in the broth while it sits.
- What they like
Hadn't had Seafood Noodle in ages!! This! This is the taste!!
超絶久々食べたシーフードヌードル！！コレコレ！この味！！
mentioned in 3 of 39 reviews we read
Real quotes from Japanese review sites, translated by us. We show no star rating from those sites.
The maker
Where it comes from
- Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd.
- Osaka
Nissin was founded in Osaka in 1948 by Momofuku Ando, who spent the late 1950s working in a shed behind his house trying to make a noodle that kept. Chicken Ramen, the first instant ramen anywhere, came out of that shed in 1958. Cup Noodle followed in 1971.
Seafood Noodle joined the range in July 1984 and turned forty in 2024. It is made in Japan, from flour milled out of Australian, Japanese, American and Canadian wheat.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: nissin.com (opens in a new tab)
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