Okay, so today me and Taylor are gonna go to two different convenience stores

7-Eleven and Family Mart, which are probably my two faves,

I used to like Lawson, but recently I'm increasingly liking 7-Eleven and Family Mart [Taylor]: Yeah, I'm a Family Mart girl

[Sharla]: Yeah, they're the best. We're gonna do a challenge and see who can make the best

Japanese convenience store at dinner.

[Taylor]: It might seem like it's difficult to do, but in Japan, it's- the convenience store food is so good [Sharla]: It's so good.

[Taylor]: You can eat there all day, it's totally different. [Sharla]: Yeah, it's totally different than like 7-Eleven in Canada. Your choices are like cold hot dogs

[Sharla]: Yeah, like I think we're gonna be able to find like an actually nutritional...meal [Taylor]: We're gonna surprise you guys

[Sharla]: Okay, let's go [Taylor]: Let's do this.

[Sharla]: Alright, I chose to do my shopping for dinner at

7-Eleven, let's go inside and see what we can find

I was thinking to get some kind of interesting drink, but the only vegan stuff they have its juice or these

Soy milk smoothies which I've heard are pretty gross

Okay, I think I'm good for dinner. I'm gonna move on to dessert, which I think will be kind of hard

But if I can find some traditional Japanese desserts, they're very often vegan

Alright, we have our dinner, it came to

1265 yen

[Taylor]: Alright guys, I'm inside Family Mart now

We're gonna see what I can find for my full three-course dinner

At this point things are looking pretty picked over here

This is after lunch, so it's gonna be a little bit difficult

This is the frozen section which is usually pretty good for dinner

But a lot of the main courses have meat in it

Don't think I see one with just vegetables, let's see here

These are just beans inside, could be okay

Ooh check these out, these are

Noodles made from tofu, and they have this sesame sauce on top, that looks pretty cool

This one doesn't actually contain milk so I can use this too

Might get this too for some extra color and nutrition

Let's go pay

Okay, I've got everything I need. I spent about one thousand- and not about- I actually spent

1026 yen, which is about $10 American. I'm ready to go.

So I'm preparing my dinner

I'm just gonna heat up the broccoli first, cuz it's frozen

So it's literally just plain, frozen broccoli

And then while that is frying up, I'm gonna prepare the noodles here. We've got our vegetables

Greens, they got some protein

We've got some more fruit and vegetables, you've got

Inside here

It's like a bread it can be for dessert, so some carbs and fruit, and carbs's here. Try to cover all nutritional

bases and get a lot of colors

As much as I could find

Which is usually difficult in a convenience store, but in Japan it's not too bad

So, this is a sauce

just like a sesame sauce and you get these this little package of seeds, and then

These are the tofu noodles

sauce here

and now, I'm gonna pour the noodles

There we go

This doesn't look red at all, it's like brown. That was such false advertising- kay pretend that's a nice red pretty color

Got one of these buns

Which I thought had meat in it up until now, but this one is a steamed bun with only red bean inside

So gonna put this just like, okay

Basically this pair, it's like ice cream, but it's not made from milk

There, that's our dessert.

[Taylor]: Bon Appétit. [Sharla]: So I should start with my appetizer. [Taylor]: Yeah. [Sharla]: Alright, here we go. Family Mart

[Taylor]: This is fruit and vegetable

I wanted it to be red because I wanted the colours to balance, like I love green. [Sharla]: Yeah, like you thought of everything

[Sharla]: Well you needed brown. [Taylor]: Wait, no there's brown here, it's already been done

[Sharla]: This isn't bad, at first it really tastes like vegetables, like eurghh, but then the fruit comes through. It is healthy, but

But edible. I'm gonna try these tofu noodles, I'm intrigued

[Taylor]: The sauce at the bottom is not mixed in. [Sharla]: They're completely made from tofu.

[Sharla]: Mmm, they're delicious. [Taylor]: They're delicious?

They must be new, I've never seen these before.

[Sharla]: I'm really craving those.

[Taylor]: Mmm

[Taylor]: The texture's really good.

[Sharla]: They're firmer than I thought they will be.

Ooh broccoli.

[Taylor]: I knew it's your favourite. [Sharla]: Mmm, it's really good actually.

[Taylor]: *Whispers* Bonus points since it's your favourite.

[Sharla]: So far this is really good. I would not mind eating this for dinner

[Sharla]: Alright, let's try this fancy dessert. I don't know where to start

[Taylor]: Cut into it, get a bit. Okay, Sharla does this thing where she eats things individually and it drives me crazy

Because I'm one of those people that likes to mix everything in the sauces to get all the flavors [Sharla]: So I want to get a little

bit of everything? [Taylor]: Yeah, okay like

This is like the cake with the ice cream with the fruit

It's a peach. Thought this is pear.

[Sharla]: Well it's a really interesting mix.

[Taylor]: Does it work?

[Sharla]: But yeah, it's actually good. [Taylor]: Actually, this was supposed to be hot

[Taylor]: *coughs* when I bought it. [Sharla]: It's warm.

[Sharla]: I kinda like it, yeah, this works.

[Sharla]: Yeah I like the coldness of the ice cream.

with the warm bun.

[Taylor]: I like that- I like doing that for dessert.

Balancing, I mean, different temperatures.

[Sharla]: It's good, my favourite's definitely the noodles.

They're so good, I'm gonna be buying these all the time, I love them.

Okay, I'm gonna prepare my 7-Eleven dinner now

I'm quite confident that I found some really interesting stuff, and I think Taylor's gonna like it

Okay, so I'm gonna start off by plating the sashimi konnyaku (konjac)

I've never seen this before, it looks really interesting, and I think it's a cool vegan alternative to sashimi.

Comes with a miso karashi (a type of mustard) sauce

It's kinda cut like sashimi too

For dish number two, I'm going to be making a tofu salad

This is a kale and lettuce salad, got tofu here, and I'm going to add a bit of this kinpira (sauté and simmer)

Gobo salad as well. These are like root vegetables

For the next dish, I found this which is brand new, it's "kuro satou inari" ("black"/brown sugar beancurd pockets)

type of sushi

But normally they're not kuro satou flavored- black sugar? Brown sugar?

So these might be a little sweeter than usual, it's a tofu pocket with rice inside

And for some color, I'm going to place some edamame

on the plate.

For dessert, I've got a selection of Japanese sweets, this is kuromi mochi- walnut

rice cakes

This is a monaka, which is like a wafer with red bean paste inside. I'm most excited for this one

It's yokan, which is usually just made from red beans, but this one is chocolate flavoured

And so I think this is gonna be really good

And my dinner is complete

[Taylor]: Wow, this looks so good, you did so good

This is gonna be tough to pick up though.

[Sharla]: Haha, just stab it with a fork.

[Taylor]: Mmmm

[Sharla]: Is it good? [Taylor]: Mm-hmm.

It's like the restaurant ones like- the sauce is nice.

[Sharla]: Mmm. It tastes so similar to fish.

[Taylor]: Yeah, it does have that...[Sharla]: and the texture?

(Taylor: I guess it's from the sea right?) [Sharla]: It's really similar to raw fish too. They added seaweed to this one (Taylor: Oh, that's why) to make it fishier

I guess

[Taylor]: Mmm

[Taylor]: I love all of these things. [Sharla]: Yeah you can't go wrong with kinpira gobo.

[Taylor]: This is delicious. I could definitely eat this for dinner, really good.

[Taylor]: Ooh I love these too. [Sharla]: Brown sugar. [Taylor]: I've never tried this one

[Sharla]: They are brand new, I wonder if they're sweet.

[Taylor]: Mm-hmm, it's a lot sweeter than the other ones

Has this almost, burnt sugar taste to it.

[Sharla]: Caramel? [Taylor]: Yeah like caramelised or something.

Edamame's always a good idea.

Everything's really good, I don't know what's my favourite.

[Taylor]: I wanna try this. [Sharla]: Yah, chocolate yokan.

[Taylor]: Mmm

[Sharla]: Pretty chocolatey? [Taylor]: Mm-hmm.

It's a good chocolate pudding, but a bit firmer

That's different, that almost tastes like um

You know this chocolate bar Big Turk? [Sharla]: Mm-hmm...yeah! [Taylor]: Inside, that's what that tastes like [Sharla]: Oh weird

[Taylor]: The texture's- same texture.

[Sharla]: Those chocolate yokans are amazing.

[Taylor]: It's really good [Sharla]: It's almost like a brownie, like a really moist brownie.

So good!

[Taylor]: I think my favorite

Probably the salad. I love these flavours together- I love tofu, I love this vegetable

[Taylor]: I'm gonna mix it all together [Sharla]: NOOOO! Don't do it

Let us know down below who you think won the Japanese konbini dinner challenge. Whose dinner would you prefer to eat?

We'll tally up your comments and decide a winner.

Thanks for watching guys, if you have not already subscribed to Taylor's channel

I will link her down below, so go check her out, and I'll see you soon, bye!

[Taylor]: I'm never cooking again, 7-Eleven every night.

[Sharla]: Haha, right.