its noodles and seasoning! no chicken!

nope. you can't eat any processed foods.

This is what I always say to questions like this. If someone is a TRUE vegetarian, they would KNOW what they can and cannot eat. You should not have to ask strangers if it is ok to eat something. You would know if you were a true vegetarian. Not yelling at you and nothing against you. This is just how I feel.

girl please, you should know ramen noodles and everything about them is fake, its just flavoring, and it tastes nothing like chicken..but the chicken flavor is discussting, you should try Oriental its the BEST

Read the fricking label! If it has chicken fat or powdered chicken, there's your answer.

well check the label also its your decision a vegitarien can eat anything they want.

to a point or they wont be a vegiterian.

its a personal choice.

if you feel your betraing the poor chickens then dont if you fell its fine go for it!!!!!

No. Sorry but the chicken flavoring is made from chickens.
Top ramen oriental flavor is debated as being vegetarian. There is no known animal seasoning in it, but Nissan Top Ramen has not confirmed or denied anything about it.

No, it is not vegetarian. The chicken flavor comes from chicken. It is just ground up.

I used to miss the ramen noodles as well, until I found out I could make my own. All you need to do is purchase the ramen noodles and vegetable bullion cubes. Boil the water, put the cubes in and then add the noodles. It tastes the same, and is just as easy to make.

Ramen soup is generally made from stock based on chicken or pork, combined with a variety of ingredients such as kombu (kelp), katsuobushi (skipjack tuna flakes), niboshi (dried baby sardines), beef bones, shiitake, and onions, and then flavored with the likes of salt, miso, or soy sauce.

The resulting combination is generally divided into four categories (although new and original variations often make this categorisation less clear-cut):

Shio ("salt") ramen soup is clear, almost transparent. It is probably the oldest of the four and, like the Chinese maotang , is a simple chicken broth.

Tonkotsu ("pork bone") ramen is usually cloudy white. It is similar to the Chinese baitang and is a thick broth made with crushed pork bones that have been boiled for hours. It is a specialty of Ky?sh? and is often served with beni shoga (pickled ginger).

Sh?yu ("soy sauce") ramen soup is made by adding a soy-based sauce to a clear stock usually made from chicken and various vegetables. It is popular in Honsh?. A popular seasoning is black pepper.

Miso ramen is a relative newcomer, having reached national prominence around 1965. This uniquely Japanese ramen, which was developed in Hokkaid?, features a broth that combines chicken stock with a fermented soybean paste. It is often topped with sweetcorn and butter.

So as you can see, all seasonings have some form of meat or another. Japanese are a very particular bunch and will never compromise the taste of their food. They would have something fresh from real ingredients rather than to completely go for artificial flavouring.

It still has animal product in it. So it depends on how strict you want to be with animal products altogether.
From Nissan Foods:
"Do you have any vegetarian products?
Our Top Ramen Oriental and Cup Noodles Vegetarian Vegetable flavors contain no animal products."

nope, they chicken flavoring does come from chickens.

i've heard that the top ramen oriental ones are actually vegan, but i don't know how creditable that is.

So prodigy556, let me get this straight it's o.k. to buy the ground up chicken and support the industry that made it, but it's not o.k. to eat it, is that about right? That sounds just a little warped to me.

It's not vegetarian if you use the seasoning.
Throw out the sauce packets and use your own spices. It tastes MUCH better and you eat less chemicals that way.
Vegetable bouillon goop is trés yummy, but if you don't have it around or can't find it at the store, you can just use some herbs and other random spices. (I've found that onion powder/flakes, garlic salt, sea salt, parsley, oregano, paprika, and/or curry powder work well.) You could also use faux chicken or vegetable broth.

You can check the ingredients, but very likely it does contain chicken.

I think the oriental flavor is vegetaran. But I could be wrong. It's perfectly tasty!

I got this from another discussion forum. They were discussing whether the oriental flavor ramen was vegetarian or not (including the seasoning)

"The Maruchan has beef extract but the Top Ramen does not."

I believe there is a vegetarian ramen.