Sapporo Ichiban Sauce Yakisoba 5-Pack 600g — the original Japanese instant yakisoba in Sanyo Foods' Sapporo Ichiban range, sold since 1971.
About Sanyo Foods
Sanyo Foods (サンヨー食品) is the Japanese manufacturer behind Sapporo Ichiban (サッポロ一番), one of Japan's most-recognised instant noodle brands. Sapporo Ichiban launched in 1966 with the goal of bringing Sapporo's ramen-shop flavours into a home pantry — the range has grown into a portfolio of bag ramen, cup noodles, and yakisoba spanning decades of household familiarity.
What's sauce yakisoba
Yakisoba (焼そば, "fried noodles") is a Japanese stir-fried wheat noodle dish, distinct from ramen — wavy noodles pan-fried with vegetables and meat, then tossed with a sauce. "Sauce" yakisoba refers to the Worcestershire-style sauce blend that defines the most common Japanese yakisoba variant.
Product details
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Brand: Sanyo Foods (サンヨー食品)
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Net weight: 600g
The Asakusa-style sauce
"Sauce" yakisoba is the most common Japanese style — a Worcestershire-based stir-fry sauce that's sweet, tangy, and savoury at once, distinct from salt (shio) or soy (shoyu) yakisoba variants. Sanyo's sauce blends Worcestershire sauce with vegetable oil, sugar, pork seasoning, yeast extract, and spices for a balanced umami-sweet profile. An aonori (sea lettuce flakes) sachet is included for garnish.
The noodles
Wavy fried noodles designed to coat sauce well — the crinkles hold the sauce, the lard adds richness, and the noodle width sits between thin and chunky for an even mouthfeel.
Ingredients (per Sanyo Foods official)
Fried noodles (wheat flour [domestic], edible fats and oils [lard, vegetable oil], salt, sugar); sauce (sauce, vegetable oil, sugar, pork seasoning, salt, yeast extract, spices); yakumi (aonori) / caramel colour, seasoning (amino acids etc.), calcium carbonate, kansui, acidulant, thickening polysaccharides, gardenia colour, antioxidant (vitamin E), vitamin B2, vitamin B1.
Allergens
Contains: wheat, soy, chicken, pork, apple (per Sanyo Foods Japan declaration).
Nutrition (per ~120g serving)
Energy 529 kcal · Protein 11.6g · Fat 22.0g · Carbohydrate 71.2g · Salt-equivalent 3.6g.
Important — please check the package label
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Japan's classic Worcestershire-style instant yakisoba · サッポロ一番 ソースやきそば · Sanyo Foods.
