Sapporo Ichiban Otafuku Okonomiyaki Sauce Yakisoba Review

This Ichiban Okonomiyaki Sauce Yakisoba in the orange packaging is often available at T&T or H-Mart in Canada over the last few years.  The Nissin UFO yakisoba in either the round dish or the square dish are also big sellers and very popular.  I reviewed the Nissin UFO Yakisoba here.

This is a typical, regular sized, instant yakisoba noodle in a square styrofoam dish container.  The yakisoba sauce in it was developed with the Otafuku Sauce Company, so you know you're going to get decent flavour.  Otafuku is pretty famous company that makes bottled sauces for okonomiyaki and yakisoba amongst many other products.

This particular yakisoba has a bright orange printed wrap on it that you could use as a traffic marker (just kidding), so it definitely is hard to miss on a shelf.  The top of the bowl shows a nice lifter full of tasty noodles with bits of meat and cabbage.  The name of the product is boldly displayed in a band across the top half in white on a black background.  Simple and effective branding for these noodles.

3/4 view of the noodle package.

Nutritional information and ingredients.

Manufacturing information and best before.  You can tell I've been sitting on these pictures for a few years!

After you remove the plastic wrap you see the actual lid of the bowl.  The bowl has preparation instructions printed on it and has the typical A, B, C preparation steps you should follow.

Inside the package is a large brick of noodles, some dried pork and cabbage, a sachet of yakisoba sauce, and a little sachet of furikake.

After rehydrating the noodles and draining off all of the water, I mixed in the yakisoba sauce. There was a nice light coating of the sauce over the noodles which were a medium thick straight noodle.  The sauce was nice a savoury with a bit of sweetness and tartness to bring out the fried noodle flavour.  Since these noodles are deep fried to dry them, yakisoba sauce goes very nicely with them.  The little bits of cabbage and pieces of meat added to the noodles, but you never have enough of these ingredients in these types of instant yakisoba for any brand.  The little satchet of furikake composes of some bonito flakes and seaweed added to the flavour.  Quite tasty.

I've tried most of the major brands from Myojo, Nissin, Ichiban, etc., and they're all really quite similar with good flavour and thicker, chewier noodles.  You could still have a favourite, but if you have a craving for yakisoba in a hurry, having any of these around the house would satisfy that you.

The finished yakisoba ready for you to eat.  Always looks yummy to me.

Bonus picture of giant instant yakisoba noodle packages that cost quite a bit here as they are about 4x larger than your regular yakisoba package.  I'm not sure they still make these GIGAMAX yakisoba noodles, but they would be a huge meal you could share with friends.

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