Today’s question is: What is your favorite Japanese convenience store food or drink item?
The magic of Japanese convenience stores can’t be denied, from the shiny lights to the neat rows of food to the twenty types of hangover cure you can find at the drop of a hat. What do you stock up on before returning to your hotel at night? What do you go out of your way to get from one convenience store brand versus another? What’s that one food or drink item you crave when you’re not in Japan? Tell us what you love!
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19 comments
Banana milk slaps try that.
I’ve heard about a legendary item, one so powerful it could even wipe out entire cities…
And it’s known… as the family mart fried chicken.
Milk tea and egg sando 💕
First things I ate and drank upon arriving in Japan and couldn’t have made a better selection
Egg sandwich from any chain is amazing.
Don’t judge but squid crackers, matcha-flavored baumkuchen (spit cake) and Fanta Melon (or other melon flavour soft drink).
Not mine but the missus, hot pizza buns from 7-11.
all the bento boxes. so delicious. Japanese Konbinis are food paradise at its finest.
7/11 Spicy Nanachiki. And I think Mini Stop X-Fries and Soft Creams are pretty underrated.
Sandwiches and pudding 🍮😋
I guess I’ll be the first person to say onigiri.
Big cans of Sapporo
Drinks:
* Pocari Sweat
* Salt Litchi
* Blood Orangina (sadly discontinued a few years ago!)
* Boss Rainbow coffee
* Kirin Morning Tea + Espresso (very rare!)
* Morinaga juice boxes
* Morinana vitamin and mineral jelly packs
Food:
* Onigiri (usually salmon)
* Haagen-Dazs ice cream wafer with caramel
* Karaage (I prefer Family Mart, but all the major ones are good)
* Lotte chocolate-covered almonds (has to be Lotte, not Meiji!)
* Yogurt (any kind, although I like mixed fruit the most)
Tuna Mayo Onigiri and a Boss Coffee.
the desserts are king at combini stores
7-11 oden. I know, I’m basic.
– Mini Stop Belgian chocolate and vanilla mixed soft serve.
– 7-11 mabo tofu rice or noodles, pho, paitan
– Lawson banana yogurt
– family mart famichiki on their bun
Ginger Ale Up.
And if we’re being honest, just about any other Japanese gummy candy.
A Famichiki slapped between one of those maple syrup pancake sandwiches from the bread section
I haven’t been back to Japan since 2017 and I still sometimes wake up thinking about those dang egg sandwiches.