Nissin Cup Noodle Seafood BIG — Japanese Instant Ramen Cup, 105g

Nissin's seafood cup noodle in the BIG size: the cup sold in Japan, not the smaller version on Australian supermarket shelves. The broth is the cloudy kind, pork and seafood together, rich rather than fishy and closer to a mild chowder than to a ramen shop's soup. Seafood Noodle was the second best-selling cup ramen in Japanese supermarkets in 2024–25; that ranking is for the regular 75 g cup, and this is the BIG: the same recipe in the 105 g cup, 85 g of it noodles. If you had it in Japan and want that exact cup back, this is it.

On the pack it reads カップヌードル シーフードヌードル ビッグ. That is just "Cup Noodle Seafood Noodle Big" written in Japanese, so you can check the cup that arrives is the right one.

Cup Noodle comes in three sizes in Japan: Mini, regular and BIG. This is BIG, the largest of the standard cups.

What you're getting

• What is actually floating in it: crab stick, squid, seasoned egg, cabbage and spring onion. The crab stick is kanikama: fish surimi shaped and coloured to look like crab rather than crab meat. Nissin still declares crab as an allergen on it, so if you react to shellfish, treat this as containing crab. Nissin made the pieces bigger in 2025 and put in about 14% more garnish.
• Not the supermarket cup: the Nissin seafood cup in Australian supermarkets is a smaller, China-made product. This is the 105 g cup from Nissin's Japanese range, made in Japan.
• It is a meal, not a snack: a 105 g cup, 85 g of it noodles. The commonest thing Japanese reviewers say about the BIG is that one of them is dinner on its own.
• It is a salty one: properly salty, the way Japanese cup ramen is, and roughly half of that sits in the broth. Drinking the soup or leaving it changes the meal quite a bit either way.
• Eat it while it is hot: the complaint that comes up most about the BIG specifically is that it is a lot of cup, so the end of it goes soft if you take your time over it.
• Allergens: contains crab, fish, wheat, egg, milk, squid, clam, 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.

Boiling water to the line moulded inside the cup, about 390 mL, then lid down for three minutes. Don't microwave it: Nissin's own instruction is that only their microwave-marked products go in one, so tip it into a bowl first if you want to reheat it. It isn't vegetarian or halal either, with pork and chicken seasoning, egg and gelatine in it.