Product information
About
A sour-hot prawn soup with noodles in it, made creamy with coconut milk rather than left thin and sharp: lemongrass and lime leaf over a tom yum paste that is genuinely made in Thailand. Kung means prawn, and there are whole ones in the cup. This is Nissin's own recreation of the dish, not a Thai product.
カップヌードル パクチー香るトムヤムクン ビッグ, pakuchii kaoru tomu yamu kun: pakuchii is coriander, and it sits in the product's own name.
What you're getting
- You set the heat yourself. The tom yum paste comes as its own sachet, stirred in at the end, all of it, half of it, or none.
- Sour first, hot second. The acidity is the assertive part, pitched above the instant tom yum sold in Thailand itself, and the chilli sits behind it.
- Creamy, not thin. Coconut milk and a dairy component round the soup out. This is the richer style of tom yum, not the clear one.
- Whole prawns, red chilli, mushroom and coriander loose in the cup, on a slightly wider noodle than the standard Cup Noodle uses.
- About the coriander: it is in the product's Japanese name, so it looks like the headline, but it is the smallest of the four toppings, and milder than the name promises. It cannot be left out, though, so if coriander is a hard no for you, this is not your cup.
- The honest caveat: people who bounce off this cup bounce off the sourness, not the herb. If sharp, sour soup is not what you want, buy a different one.
- Allergens: contains prawn (crustacean), wheat, milk, sesame and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
The milk is real, not a coconut substitute: a dairy-based ingredient is named in the soup, so this is not dairy-free. Chicken is declared too, though it appears nowhere by name in the ingredient list. This is the Japanese domestic cup: Coles sells a Nissin tom yam cup as well, but that one is a smaller, China-made seafood version rather than this. Eat it slowly: the sour chilli steam coming off it catches in the throat if you rush. The lid is aluminium, so never microwave it in its own cup; Nissin warns of fire risk.
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, soy sauce, onion seasoning, savoury seasoning), soup (tom yum paste, dairy-based preparation, sugars, salt, dextrin, chilli-infused oil), toppings (seasoned prawn, red chilli, mushroom, coriander)
processed starch, flavour enhancers (amino acids etc.), acidity regulator, calcium carbonate, kansui (alkaline noodle salts), spice extract, carotenoid colour, thickener (polysaccharides), flavouring, antioxidant (vitamin E), caramel colour, vitamin B2, vitamin B1, sodium carbonate.
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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- Crustacean
- Wheat
- Milk
- Sesame
- Soy
- Dietary notes
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The milk here is real dairy, not coconut: a dairy-based preparation is named in the soup, so this is a coconut-milk soup that is not dairy-free. There is chicken in it as well, hidden inside the seasoning rather than listed on its own line, so you will not find the word by reading the ingredients. 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: 100 g, of which 80 g is noodles
Our guide
How to eat it
- 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 400 mL of boiling water, then leave it for the time printed on the lid.
- Stir the tom yum paste sachet in once the noodles are done, not before, and taste as you go: it carries most of the sourness and the heat, so half a sachet makes a gentler cup and the whole one a fierce one.
- Once the noodles are gone, stir rice into what is left, in Thailand tom yum is eaten over rice rather than drunk as a soup.
- 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.
- Take it slowly rather than in a rush: the sour chilli steam coming off it can catch in your throat.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
I'd been waiting forever for the BIG. So good I'd happily eat it every single day — it lands dead on my taste. And I don't like coriander, but it doesn't bother me here at all.
ずっとBIG待ってました！！何回でも毎日でも食べたくなるくらい美味しい…私の好みにはドンピシャで大好きなカップヌードル。パクチー苦手な私でも全く気にならないです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
I can't stand coriander. Apparently they also call it "stink-bug weed" — after I looked that up I could eat it even less.
パクチーが苦手。カメムシ草ともいうらしく…調べたらよけい食べられなくなった。
from monolog
- What they like
Sour and spicy, pretty good. I couldn't smell the coriander at all — doesn't bother me either way.
酸っぱ辛くなかなか良いです パクチーは香りませんでした 気にしないんで大丈夫
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Just sour, just hot — my tongue stung the whole way through, and the flavour underneath was vague; I wanted more body and savouriness.
ただ酸っぱい、辛い、刺激で食べる間舌が痛いだけで味はコクや旨みを足してほしいと思うボンヤリした味でした。
from monolog
- What they like
I love this flavour — pleasantly Asian, the heat is just right, easy to eat. So happy the big size finally arrived.
この味が大好き 程よくアジアンで辛さがちょうどよく食べやすい ついにビックサイズが出てくれて嬉しいです
from monolog
- What they like
I squeezed in every last drop of the sauce, and since I'm not used to tom yum I finished it in a sweat. That's how serious the flavour is.
ソースを残さず絞り入れたので、トムヤムクンに慣れておらず汗をかきながら完食しました。それ程本格的なお味です。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
A bit sour, and the chilli comes through hot. I prefer mild food and I couldn't drink the soup.
ちょっと酸っぱくて、唐辛子がきいていて辛いです。薄味好みの私は辛くてスープは飲めませんでした。
from mognavi
- What they like
I used to think Nissin's Seafood was the strongest Cup Noodle — then I met this tom yum and that flipped.
日清さんのカップヌードルはシーフードが最強だと思ってましたが、こちらのトムヤムクンを知ってから、逆転しました。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Add the water and the prawn aroma comes billowing out. Eat the prawn, though, and it's a dried prawn — not remotely plump.
お湯を入れると海老の香りがぷんぷんです😆 海老は食べてみると、干し海老でまったくぷりぷりしないです。
from mognavi
- What they like
I normally repeat-buy the regular size, but whenever I spot the BIG I buy it without fail. I get anxious if I don't have it stocked.
いつも、普通のサイズをリピートしてるのですが、ビックを見つけると必ず買っています。常にストックしていないと不安になります。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
I like it, but as a BIG something's off.
好きだけどビッグだとなんか違う
from monolog
- What they like
Totally hooked! Probably tuned for Japanese tastes, but delicious.
どハマり！多分日本人向けの味だけど美味しい
from monolog
Real quotes from Japanese review sites (monolog, mognavi), 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.
Tom yum kung joined the range in 2014 and outsold its own production plan so badly that Nissin stopped shipping it for ten months. It belongs to a series built around recreating dishes eaten elsewhere rather than importing them, Nissin's own word for what it does is 再現, a recreation, so this is a Japanese take on tom yum, built with a paste made in Thailand.
The big cup went on sale on 4 August 2025, the first big size the series has ever had, made in answer to customers asking for a proper feed.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: nissin.com (opens in a new tab)
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