A lot of you guys messaged me and told me that there's actually a lot of great food at the 7-Eleven

here in Japan and I got to give it a try.

So this morning for brunch, we're going to eat at a 7-Eleven.

So this is the nearest one around my hotel

7 & I Holdings. I'm so hungry for 7-Eleven food.

I'm actually really excited because I'm starving and

Just, just from my Taiwan 7-Eleven experience. I'm expecting good things. So this aisle

cleaning supply, stationaries, office supplies.

I don't know what this is, but this looks good

The ramen aisle, I gotta try some ramen cuz there's a lot

Called - um, [chao da sheng] it's like a big plate

I have no idea what this is

UFO

That looks good. You gotta get some 7-Eleven dried squid. Oh my god

I know I'm skipping ahead a little bit to dessert but look at this freakin puff.

Oh what in the world is?

Sure. And they got a section of like just a bunch of soups.

It's like clam soup

seaweed soup

Vegetable soup and go for some of this tofu soup.

The massive green tea cookie haha, sure

and this where you can get salads and the bacon that goes on top of your salads or

Or the chicken that goes on top of your salads. Egg

Tofu

Alright, here is the already made stuff.

Ooh, look how much meat is in this?

And I heard good things about these egg sandwiches.

Oh, I loved onigiris, let's get a salmon one

This also sounds really good, spicy roll with cream cheese.

Hmm also gonna get it one of these.

Look at all these bento boxes here

Oh my gosh

Oh wow

This looks a lot better than the train bento I got last time I was in Japan

Wow, this looks pretty awesome. I'm not really sure what this is.

Looks like some fried chicken or pork.

I'm back in the ramen aisle.

I'll check this out. This is the Tsuta that this is the Michelin star ramen place

I went to a couple days ago.

I got to try this and we can't forget the drinks

I've been loving this tea, since I got to Japan and this one looks good.

Melon water. Melon ice cream. Whatever

And they also have a bunch of already prepared dishes like from fried chicken, fried pork, a corndog.

Some buns, looks like quite a lot of buns, looks like some pork,

This thing looks like it has some cheese in there

You know what, just one of each

Ooh fish cake

So yeah, this will be brunch

[Chuckle]

So here we are. Um

It's a quite a meal. Let's dig in shall we?

Oh so this is a curry bun right here, look at that

That is really curry, that has a really good curry flavor. Buns really surprise me at 7-Eleven

It's cheesy, that is a pretty fantastic curry bun.

With the buns, I gotta have some soup

So let me try the miso soup out. So this one has look at this

A bunch of dry ingredients

scallions, tofu

seaweed, and this one

Has the miso, I'm actually glad it's not like a powder.

And of course the 7-Eleven has hot water

This cup has a line that I guess you fill it up to

There you go, give that a little stir,

tofu is softening, so is my seaweed

Just as I thought, if you serve this to me at a restaurant

I wouldn't question you.

The vegetables actually crunchy, so is the seaweed.

The tofu, extremely gentle and soft. It tastes like a legit tofu

Actually, super tender tofu that someone just added to this miso soup

Now we can get on with our buns.

Wow. Look at this.

Oh man, it's some kind of mystery meat. It's all like, okay, there's definitely some cheese in here

And I don't know that white stuff is.

Mmm, it's potatoes!

Wow

This bun is amazing.

Oh my god.

This is so incredibly awesome. This bun, seriously guys.

It's got these potatoes, it's got cheese. That's insanely delicious.

Let's keep going, got about four of these buns left.

That is really pumpkin looking one. Oh

What is that? Oh!

Some cheese in there, too

There's something red

Mmm

It's a pizza bun, marinara sauce inside and cheese.

Gotta tell you the truth

Ain't half-bad. I mean I wish there's some pepperoni in here or something

but

It's interesting

Really not bad.

Finally the last bun, ah this is, I think this is a dessert bun.

Look at this, I'm pretty sure yep

That's red bean paste. Oh look at that

Mm-hmm red bean paste.

I wish I saved this for the end, but a lot of filling, not overly sweet

I dig it

That will go awesome with some green tea

Oh it does.

All right. I got to get some noodles in me. So

mmm

Let's try the Michelin star ramen. Wow

Look how fancy this thing is, oh my god

I never seen this before in my life.

This ramen has a piece of dried pork belly on the inside.

That is insane.

I'm just gonna add. Okay.

So this is, I think this is a soy sauce based sauce that I'm adding here

This is a real piece of pork belly

Oh my gosh

By the way

A little hack for you, using disposable chopsticks to keep your ramen lid secure.

These noodles look borderline

pretty darn ridiculous. Look at this.

I'll tell you guys what, this is easily the highest quality ramen noodle I've ever had in my life.

You can tell from the broth itself

Wow, the broth is so insanely flavorful.

Here's the pork. Let's see how this is, I'm not expecting much here.

Wow

It was melty. I can't believe I'm saying that about a pork that came out of a plastic bag.

The bamboo

Mmm, you hear that?

This is legit, guys.

Ooh. Chase that with a little melon water

This is pretty darn good.

So I got this big tofu thing, look at it. It looks like a pouch

There's stuff in this tofu wallet, check it out

Look at this, there's something. I'm not really sure what this is... hang on

Mmm, it's mochi, big piece of mochi in this tofu wallet

Wow dip this in this broth here.

Delicious but oh so heavy now.

Finally this like

Sea monster noodle looking thingy

I forgot what we called this in Chinese but these noodles we eat this a lot at hotpot.

It has zero calories, which is insane.

I love eating this, literally no calories, you can eat as much as you want.

It's like freaking witchcraft and it actually tastes good.

Here we go, soak a little bit of my ramen broth

Seriously, everything just tastes better in my ramen broth.

Alright, I heard really good things about the egg sandwich

It's called a tamago sandwich. At first glance, this is a pretty

Nice-looking sandwich. I mean the eggs-- pretty beautiful color and

Bread seems really bouncy and nice

That's a great egg sandwich. Wow

I mean this thing is creamy, it's eggy and just wonderfully flavored

Gotta give some props to the bread as well.

This thing is so light

Wow, let's get to our bento boxes

So the bento box has come with instructions. This one

500 watt for two minutes, or 1500 watt for 40 seconds

And this one is 500 watt 3 minutes, 1500 watt 1 minute.

So here are the microwaves

Okay, this is done

Wow

That actually looks ridiculously good. Fatty beef, all juicy.

This too - yeah

Looking good against the fake grass.

Underneath, you have the nice rice... I'm thinking...

You have caramelized onions

Guys, this is awesome

Hmm. That beef is ridiculously flavorful.

The sauce is a little sweet, very savory, slightly fatty.

Look how well that's playing with the rice right now.

I mean, this is 7-Eleven food. Can you believe it?

I mean the meat actually tastes like really good quality!

This, for like four bucks. This is a pretty good lunch.

That meat is so good. Alright, half the stuff is mysterious to me.

Let's.. let's figure out what this yellow thing is?

Yes, I think it's eggs, like sweet eggs.

Yeah, that's eggs, sweet eggs, not my favorite.

On the other side is some kind of pork

That's also a little sweet.

I'm kind of sensing that the theme of this dish right now.

Let's just go back to this

Never go wrong with this.

You know, a little hot oil, mm

Starbucks sparkling water with green coffee extract

I'm not really sure what I just drank.

I don't, I don't drink coffee much. But what the heck is a green coffee extract?

Alright, dessert time [bg: kids cheering]

It's a strawberry cream sandwich

Just like with the egg sandwich, beautiful bread, really nice and gentle

You need this. Wow, I mean...

This is truly ridiculous.

So looks like inside, not only whipped cream, fresh strawberries, and some sort of yellow custard

Mmm. Only Japanese people will make something that's obviously a dessert into a sandwich

And make it insanely awesome.

Oh! Whipped cream custard is milky, and sweet.

The bread acts like a perfect, perfect vessel for all that creaminess

Trust me, you need one of these sandwiches

And just when you think like it's a little too creamy, a little too sweet. Oh

The strawberry bursts in your mouth and makes everything okay.

That's a 7-Eleven matcha cookie.

Well, it looks like white chocolate chunks

That's a pretty darn good cookie

A lot of good matcha flavor in this cookie

You know what might make this better. Hang on.

Oh man, five seconds and this thing is already hot

Wow, oh yeah, that's the way to enjoy this matcha cookie. Microwave it. Oh my god

That just got extra yummified

This little taco looking matcha thingy

So the outside it's kind of like a

like a really fluffy bun

and on the inside, matcha ice cream.

Oh and red bean sauce, really?

Can't imagine this being that good

This is pretty good

So it's not ice cream.

The inside, it's actually like a matcha cream, and the red bean paste

It's kind of covering all of it

If you're a matcha fan

Or a red bean fan or of both, you'll love this

and this for me,

great way to wrap up my meal

And that thing goes pretty good with my green tea

So my favorite thing today definitely the Michelin star instant noodles, hundred percent absolutely delicious

I love my fatty beef over rice

Actually, I think most of the bento box looked really good, but I could only try out a couple.

Love the first two buns I tried and oh my god that strawberry sandwich.

I just, that thing stole my heart and guys

This is not the end because there's there's a convenience store that's in Japan that supposed to be better than 7-Eleven called Lawson

That is supposed to be even better. Let's go check them out

Hi, so I was supposed to continue with the exploration of the convenience stores in Japan

but I took a few days in between and now I am at...

Sorry that's

And now I'm at Lawson.

Now supposedly what I what I've researched was that

Lawson is really known for a few things.

One, their freshly fried chicken.

And two, their selection of dessert items.

So let's go check it out.

Drink section. There's the ramen section

First of all, this udon is supposed to be really, really good and I need to get this

Yogurt water.. Sure.

Alright, this is something that's pretty exclusive to Lawson

Well natural Lawson, which is they're like really healthy slash organic brand.

These are the collections of smoothie and yogurts