Product information
About
A tray of Japanese noodles you drain and toss through a mapo-tofu sauce: the Sichuan dish of tofu in a spiced bean sauce, here as a flavour on a noodle. Garlicky and savoury, with a gentle warmth rather than heat. Buy it for the garlic and the noodle; if you are buying it for Sichuan fire, this is the wrong tray: there is very little chilli burn in it, and almost no numbing.
On the pack: ペヤング 背脂風四川麻婆味やきそば (Peyoung).
What you're getting
- The noodle is medium-thin and fried in lard, and it slurps easily. The sauce is thick and gloopy and clings to it.
- Garlic is the loudest thing in the bowl: fried garlic chips scattered through it, and roasted garlic in the sauce itself.
- There is tofu in the garnish, cut small enough to be easy to miss entirely. Don't buy this one for the tofu.
- "Back-fat style" on the front describes the flavour, not an ingredient: there is no pork back fat in the tray. What the lard and pork oil add is savouriness and a toasty smell.
- Allergens: wheat, sesame, soy and molluscs. Japan's rules have no mollusc category, so the oyster sauce sits in the pack's ingredient list, not its allergen box. Read that list before you rely on ours: on molluscs, ours is the fuller one.
- Also on the label: there is meat in it, and the picture on the front does not make that obvious. The noodle is fried in lard and there is pork and chicken extract in the sauce.
Allergens
- Contains
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- Wheat
- Sesame
- Soy
- Mollusc
- Dietary notes
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The noodle is fried in lard, and the sauce carries pork oil, pork extract and chicken extract: none of which appear in the allergen box. It is not vegetarian, halal or kosher, and the photograph on the front does not make that obvious.
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.
Details
- Maker
- Maruka Foods · Gunma
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One tray: 123 g
Our guide
How to eat it
- Fill to the line inside the tray with boiling water, about 480 ml.
- Put the lid back down and leave it three minutes.
- Peel the corner marked with an arrow and pour the water off. Do it slowly and away from you: a small opening and a full tray of boiling water is how people get scalded.
- Add the sauce sachet once the water is out: it is thick and gloopy.
- Stir it right through rather than pouring and eating.
Good to know
- If you want the Sichuan heat the name promises, add your own: a good pinch of chilli flakes or a teaspoon of chilli oil, stirred in at the end.
- One tray is a single serving and a light meal on its own. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, and don't stack anything on it: the tray crushes easily.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
The pack looked spicy, but it isn't very spicy at all and was extremely tasty.
パッケージでは辛そうだと思いましたが、あまり辛くなく非常に美味しかったです。
- What they grumble about
If you're expecting an authentic Sichuan-style taste, you'll probably be disappointed.
四川風の本格的な味に期待すると恐らくがっかりすると思います
- What they like
And the lard-fried noodle is the best match. It goes with mapo!
そしてラードで揚げた麺がベストマッチング。麻婆と合いますね！
- What they grumble about
The finely cut tofu is too small to even register, though it is at least an ingredient that suits a mapo flavour.
細かくカットされた豆腐は、小さ過ぎて存在感すらありませんが、一応…麻婆味にぴったりな具材
Our tip: The tofu is genuinely in there, just cut very small. Buy this one for the garlic and the noodle rather than for the tofu.
- What they like
The garlic punch works too and keeps the chopsticks moving!
ニンニクのパンチも効いて箸が進みますね！
- What they grumble about
And the "back-fat style" is utterly absent — the strong impression is that it's just for atmosphere.
そして背脂風というのも皆無で、雰囲気程度かな？といった印象が強い
- What they like
The flavour's direction isn't chilli-type hot heat but the tingle of black pepper and sansho, the Japanese cousin of Sichuan pepper.
味の方向性は唐辛子のような熱い辛さじゃなくて、黒胡椒と山椒の刺激
- What they like
It slurps beautifully.
すすり心地も非常に良く
- What they grumble about
The garlic savouriness and the numbing heat of the Sichuan pepper were more restrained than I expected.
"にんにく"の旨味や花椒の痺れる辛さは思ったより控えめで
- What they like
You properly taste mapo tofu!
ちゃんと麻婆豆腐を感じます！
- What they grumble about
I could not confirm its existence while eating.
食べていて存在が確認できませんでした
- What they like
The savouriness and toasty aroma of the lard seep out into this sauce.
ラードの旨味・香ばしい風味が今回のソースに滲み出し
- What they grumble about
"Sichuan-style yakisoba" — I don't understand the concept at all.
四川風焼きそば意味全然わかりません
from monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they like
Mildly spicy as befits Sichuan, but the overall taste is finished mellow.
四川らしくピリ辛ですが、全体的に円やかなテイストに仕上がっています
- What they grumble about
But the Sichuan-pepper aroma somehow smells fake.
でもなんか嘘っぽい花椒の香りなんだよなぁ
- What they like
All in all, a satisfying bowl.
総じて満足の一杯。
- What they grumble about
Anyway, what does "back-fat style" even mean? That it's greasy? Frankly I have no idea what they're saying.
それにしても「背脂風」ってどういう事？脂っこいって事？率直に言って何言ってるかよくわかりません
- What they like
Bought it because the packaging got me! Really looking forward to it.
パッケージにやられて買った！楽しみ〜♪
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Notably there's little heat or numbing — a gentle flavour.
特に辛さ・痺れはあまりない優しい味わい
- What they grumble about
I'd like to see the polar opposite — a Sichuan mapo tofu yakisoba that hits you with stimulation.
その対極にあるような刺激バンバンな四川麻婆豆腐焼きそばを期待したい
Real quotes from review sites. We show no star rating from those sites.
The maker
Where it comes from
- Maruka Foods
- Gunma
Maruka Foods makes Peyoung in Isesaki, in Gunma. The head office and the plant share an address: the noodles are made where the company is.
Peyoung's usual sauce is the brown, Worcestershire-style one the brand is known for. This is a departure from it: fermented black bean and sweet bean paste, with roasted garlic worked through.
It arrived in April 2026 and is still in the line-up, which is worth saying for this brand. Peyoung runs a lot of short-life flavours, and several of its spicier ones have already been retired.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: peyoung.co.jp (opens in a new tab)
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