Cup Noodle Instant Rice - Bukkomi Meshi - Classic Shoyu Flavour Review

Cup Noodle Instant Rice ( カップヌードル ぶっこみ飯  or Cup Noodle Bukkomi Meshi) is part of a line of dehydrated instant rice bowls.  They use short grain rice that is rehydrated by adding boiling water and letting it sit for five minutes.  These were first introduced in Japan way back in 2017 and I've had them a few times over the years.

You'll need to stir these real good to make sure the rice is rehydrated evenly and to mix up the soup seasonings.  There are a number of flavours available with this one being their original cup noodle shoyu (soy sauce) flavour, so it is like the original cup of noodles with rice instead of noodles.  It even has the original Cup Noodle toppings of freeze-dried shrimp, egg, ground pork cubes, and green onions.  You'll get a slightly wetter bowl of rice out of this cooking process, but it is pretty good.  I prefer the instant noodles over this most of the time, but have meshi (rice) is pretty nice for a change.

3/4 view of the Cup Noodle Rice.  These are squatter cups than the regular Cup Noodle and they sound like maracas when you shake them due to the loose rice inside.

The packaging for the Cup Noodle Rice cups is very similar to the regular noodle cup packaging and branding, but more vibrant as full colour pictures of the toppings and rice are shown to supplement it.  The ぶっこみ飯 (bukkomi) in black is both boldly display and means to put rice into the soup after you have finished your ramen.  I've been to ramen shops in Japan where you can get free bowls of white rice to supplement your ramen noodle bowl, and putting the rice into the soup to use up extra soup isn't an unusual custom for Chinese or Japanese people in this case.

The original Cup Noodle, but this one is the BIG size.  Same flavour as the Cup Noodle Rice being reviewed here.  The toppings are the same!

Lid of the cup.  A tasty looking serving of rice and toppings is shown with the signature big shrimp and ground pork cubes.  The same logos and branding on the side of the cup are shown at the top.  Note the peel the lid back to here line shown by the arrows on the left and right hand side.  The bottom right shows the cooking time as 5 minutes.

Side view of the cup again.

Ingredients and manufacturing information.  Cooking directions are at the top.  Pretty simple instructions.  1. Peel back the lid to the line.  2. Pour in boiling water up the the fill line - there is one embossed on the inside of the cup.  3. Close the lid and let it side for 5 minutes.  4. Stir well and eat.

Allergens and additional directions and warnings.

Front of the cup showing how squat it is.  Looks attractive.

Another shot of the side.  The little box at the top is a promotional blurb.  Basically saying you can have bukkomi meshi, a delicious rice in soup after eating ramen.  I want to keep eating it twice!

The lid peeled back to show some of the other products on the underside of the lid and the dried rice and toppings for the noodles at the bottom.

Closeup of the toppings and the short grained rice at the bottom of the cup.  You can see egg, shrimp, green onions, and ground meat cubes.

The almost finished product after having boiled water and waiting the 5 minutes for it to be rehydrated.

You need to give it a good stir to mix the soup base and the rice and toppings together.

This is a pretty tasty bowl of rice - it is wetter than normal - a little soupy - but that is to be expected for this.  If you don't mind this, then you will enjoy a Cup Noodle shoyu flavoured rice as a snack or part of a meal.  The rice rehydrated correctly and was firm, but with no crunchy bits and the ingredients kind of made it like have Cup Noodle!  I've had this a few times and would definitely have this again.  It is also much lower fat than having the regular fried noodles in the normal Cup Noodle with only 5.5 grams of fat.

Closeup of the rice and toppings.

 

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