Peyoung Sauce Yakisoba Super Large — Japanese Instant Fried Noodles, 237g

Peyoung is Japan's instant yakisoba, and yakisoba is not a soup. You pour boiling water in, wait three minutes, then tip the water out through a spout in the corner and toss the noodles through a sachet of brown sauce. It tastes closer to home than you would expect: the sauce is built on Worcestershire, so it lands near a fried-noodle version of a brown sauce you already know, sweeter, with sesame, green seaweed and pickled ginger running through it. This is the 超大盛 size, a 237 g pack against the standard 120 g, with 180 g of it noodles: twice the standard pack, and one very large dinner or a comfortable meal for two.

Peyoung's own range runs from a standard 120 g pack up through this one to a 439 g GIGAMAX and an 878 g Petamax. This is the double: the step up from standard, not the novelty. It came second in a 2025 national poll of Japan's instant yakisoba, just behind Nissin's U.F.O. Those two are the ones people there argue about. If you have had a U.F.O., this is the sweeter and lighter of the pair; which sauce is richer is the part nobody agrees on.

ペヤング ソースやきそば 超大盛.

What you're getting

• Flash-fried wheat noodles, and a dried garnish of cabbage, seasoned mince, sesame, aosa seaweed and pickled red ginger that comes back to life in the water.
• Everyday Japanese supermarket food, not a delicacy and not a gift. This is the standard instant noodle aisle, in the big size.
• Three sachets, and the small pepper one is the one people miss. It goes on at the very end, after you drain, skip it and the whole tray tastes flat.
• It is a lot of food for one sitting, and the noodle block is physically two separate cakes, so it halves cleanly if you would rather split it than finish it.
• The honest one: there is a single sauce sachet for double the noodles, and plenty of people in Japan reckon it lands light. Others say the opposite and find it salty. It comes down to how thoroughly you drain.
• Allergens: contains wheat, soy, sesame and apple. 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.
• Allergens, one more: the pack also declares beef, chicken and pork, not Australian allergens, but the noodles are fried in lard, the sauce carries beef extract and there is chicken mince in the garnish.

Two things worth knowing before you order. It is not spicy. Peyoung is famous in English for its 獄激辛 "hell-spicy" packs and the challenge videos that go with them. That is a different line, and this is the plain original sauce. And it is not vegetarian: the noodles themselves are fried in lard, there is beef in the sauce, and the garnish has chicken in it.

Drain it over the sink and keep the lid pressed down. The tray takes 820 mL of boiling water and you tip it out by hand, so it is heavy and hot when full, hold the two star marks on the lid and pour slowly. The pack is the Japanese-market one, so we have set the whole method out in English. One more thing: check the name on the pack. Maruka sells a cheaper line called ペヨング (Peyong), one character different from ペヤング (Peyoung). This is the Peyoung.