these are my favorite combini snack
recommendations for all the people
traveling back to Japan
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okay here we are Travelers are finally
coming back to Tokyo coming back to
Japan and they've been asking me what my
favorite convenience store snacks are so
in this video I wanted to share with you
all the favorite snacks I've been eating
this season and believe me I tried a lot
and I've narrowed it down and put it all
in this video so that when you come to
Japan you go to the combini you can go
straight down the aisle find that
perfect snack grab it and you'll be on
your way so yeah this video is for you
the traveler coming back to Japan let's
get our food on number one salmon and
cream cheese onigiri by familymart today
we have this little beauty onigiri I
think this is only onigiri that I'll be
showing today it is the salmon cream
cheese have you ever had a bagel with
the salmon cream cheese
golden pear I've seen some golden pears
in my life
golden pear what I like about it is that
it has quite a lot of filling so I'm
going to get at the company and there's
like just not a lot of insights to it
it's kind of empty whereas this one has
quite a bit and you can see just from
the top how much it has but usually they
put a lot on top and then not not so
much inside but this one has quite a bit
let me kind of break this open in front
of the camera cool that's a lot yeah
it's quite a bit
yeah it's a little bit misleading
because it has everything but you can
even see the cheese just right there
foreign
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yeah it's not like so-so you would think
of salmon doesn't have that like strong
salmon taste because I think it's been
minced a little bit so it's probably
lost a lot of that fishy taste it's a
creamy salmon dip or something
nonetheless it is a good snack for you
know if you're getting on the tray and
you're traveling you put it into your
pocket
onigiri is made to be put inside of like
little
well not if you have your tight jeans on
it you see a lot of Travelers with cargo
pants on they put them in the
oh this is a perfect travel onigiri
number two Thin potato anchovy and
mayonnaise by Kelby so Michael this is
another one of my favorites for the
season it is the anchovy mayonnaise
potato chip from Kelby so this kalbi
thin potato is actually one of their
newer product lines and you know usually
have like a thin chip flat or like a
little crinkly but they've actually
taken the chips and kind of like folded
them over and then added these like
interesting flavors to it and this is
anchovy mayonnaise
oh it smells so goodbye
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I'm trying to make it look good for the
camera
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I just love the mixture of anchovy and
mayonnaise it's such a cool combination
I don't think I've ever had it before
maybe other people have but it's a first
for me have you ever had anchovy
mayonnaise I feel I feel like I have in
another restaurant it's like a classy
restaurant you're going to you don't
you're not going to like McDonald's or
like KFC
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or even like a nice steak restaurant
like a steakhouse it's so crunchy oh
here it is
it even says vitamin E means like it has
a lot of vitamin E so this is like my
favorite in their series and then
there's actually something a little bit
newer that is Michael's favorite this
one is their honey butter flavor so if
you don't like anchovy mayonnaise and
you want something a little bit sweeter
then this is probably where you want to
go
foreign
this almost could be like a chip that
you get like a Disneyland you know in
the little popcorn places
like could be like one of the flavors
honey butter mixed together what would
you call it Michael a golden pear why
number three fuwaru strawberry daifuku
by Hoshi fruits so this one is like
another kind of a smaller brand like
kind of been enjoying finding like you
know not the big name brands to like
show you guys stuff that's not really
out there hopefully uh Hoshi fruits
doesn't get mad at me like we're a major
brand we have 150 stores all throughout
Japan so this one is a Ichigo daifuku
and whether they're small or large they
are super super delicious it is a Frozen
treat this is basically what it is
it's so white you kind of see it right
there it's frozen but yeah it is like
Mochi but yeah even it's been frozen you
can feel like it's a little bit the
texture I feel like you make this better
when it's melted
I'm trying to like get it so it looks
like
hold on I'm gonna try it I'm gonna try
to like so it's like a sliced oh
my god
wow it has like an outer Mochi layer and
it has a real strawberry in the middle
cream in the center it is so good I
can't say enough about this real
strawberries straight from the combini
Mochi itself is pretty sweet
you're supposed to depress it for like
two hours oh I've been eating it
straight
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I don't know I never tried
if you guys want to try it you can
defrost it for an hour and a half two
hours or you can just be like me and eat
it straight out of the bag number four
stamina mon by familymart okay Michael I
am bringing the heater with this one
when I say bring the heater what do you
think I mean
that's what spicy at all this is the
heater because it is a steamed bun it is
their stamina steam bun let me just take
a bite and show you what all this
loveliness is all about because I've
been in love with this thing
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I put all of my
my heaters in my pocket this meat bun
was supervised by sutadonia which is a
fast food chain in Japan that sells
meaty pork bowls just like their bowls
it's filled with a garlicky pork with a
runny egg yolk sauce
I love the egg yolk sauce as it creates
a sticky texture it has kind of like a
garlic soy sauce flavor it is quite
meaty compared to your regular I don't
think it's meaty really do you mean
meaty but quantity or like the paste
well it's meaty because it's meat taste
but no but by quantity I know I don't
speak English I don't know
um I think the quantity-wise is actually
pretty volumy number five Pokey salted
caramel flavor by glico this is my
winter special toky because it is
limited edition it's a salted caramel
Pokey flavorful delicious and it comes
in a pack of two Pokey always comes up
with different flavors some for the
summer spring this is the one for the
winter this is
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this is The Salted flavorness that I've
come to love this season
um it is so thick basically Pokey is the
cracker biscuit Center and then you have
whatever flavor that they put around the
Pokey like dipped in this caramel it
just seems thicker than if you were to
have like chocolate or something it's
caramel flavored chocolate
hey don't drop my pumpkin
here's the broken all right it's okay I
didn't like the end part anyway just go
straight for the the chocolate caramel
hit what do you think I like caramel to
begin with myself I feel like it's quite
salty
butter caramel and salt can't go wrong
there right this one's addictive
addicting
you said it right the first time
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family and
this is a bowl of ramen Ascent from the
heavens
look at that creamy chicken soup man I
was so excited for when I saw this on
the Shelf because you know you and I
actually went to this place in Kyoto do
you remember
yeah it's amazing are you pumped
you sound deflated
anyways that place was so good it had
the biggest creamiest soup ever it was
really really good we actually did a
video like two three years ago I think
just looking at though like when you put
all the the sauce and ingredients it's
not as thick as the actual Ramen Shop
but still thick enough and it is so
flavor let me just have a taste of this
right now
to kind of see the thickness you can see
the onions inside green onions there's
some pork I'm getting some bamboo as
well
wow that is so thick and creamy there's
just so much Umami in this what I like
about this the soup is so good you just
want to drink it interesting because
it's like a chicken soup but then
there's pork in here as well I don't
know I've had a lot of cup ramens this
one has so much flavor so much of mommy
in this I like the sweetness like the
naturally coming from yeah there is like
a sweetness to it you can see kind of
like how thick it is as well actual soup
is still like clinging onto the noodles
this one makes me smile if you can't go
all the way to Kyoto you can actually
get this here number seven mini
asparagus Biscuit White Chocolate
chimikomu 5 in bisu apparently asparagus
is an old time Japanese snack for about
50 years ago during that time asparagus
started to be imported as a high-end
vegetable they thought it'd be cool to
name the biscuit after that this one
just looks like a regular biscuit just
looking at it kind of looks like it's
kind of dipped in milk but in fact it's
a chocolate infused is it really infused
I didn't know it was infused I thought
it was just like light layer on the
outside
pink and purple
like sucked up the chocolate sponge so
here are the biscuits right here it's
very deceptive because it's like a
regular biscuit right mica's a little
bit mad because
um the other day I actually gave Wolfie
you don't give him chocolate ever I'm
still too young and I gave him one of
these like it looked like one of those
animal crackers and it had like cow or
owl and apparently it had the same
chocolate dipping technology it was
infused with chocolate I didn't know
it's a long story short
but these are quite good let's take a
bite
it is really chocolatey so I mean it's
your regular biscuit but it is infused
with chocolate I don't know if they have
this in the U.S I think this is new I
wonder how they do that but you can see
there is like a little bit of like a
white layer it looks like it came out
from inside
um if you guys have this or something
like this um in your country let me know
and again yeah they put it into kids
snacks nowadays too number eight wasabi
flavored pistachio by kagura this one is
a little bit different we are going a
little green on this one with pistachios
but what's interesting about these is
they are Wasabi flavor this doesn't even
have a brand I wonder how these like
small companies get into the combini
just look inside the bag smells more
like pistachios
here are the little little seeds or
little beans no beans about it these are
good
all right just take a bite
that'll kick your beans into the dirt
yeah that Wasabi is quite strong in
these obviously it's a real pistachio in
here but kind of like a salted Wasabi
it's not like the one chip challenge or
anything like that but it has that
Wasabi kind of open up your lungs and
Pathways like whoa so it's perfect if
you're you know on the train you're on
the go drinking well you're on the go
and drinking but then you want some nuts
number nine
big cheesecake by morinaga so these are
a tried and true Frozen snack these are
like little baked cheesecake ice balls
these are fun and delicious yeah these
little funny guys right but that's not
actually how they look like they look
more like this these little balls
oh
I guess you're supposed to open up this
side hold on let me just let me redo
that
yeah there you go but you know
it's me I like how I do things I just
there you go is that better is that more
presentable yes all right goodbye
so basically you have kind of like a
white chocolate coating and then you
have these cheesecake visit crumbs and
then you have inside the ice cream
that's also kind of like a cheesecake
flavor all in all it's like a perfect
hop in your mouth tree
oh did you even say it it's called
and like
foreign
like Pac-Man and number 10 famima The
Crepe cheese from Family Mart this one
is a local dessert local dessert I guess
it's local
local to Japan very interesting I bought
it today and expires tomorrow
yeah these ones you gotta eat fresh this
one was at Valley Mart and they have
just a ton of sweets these days they
keep on popping out more and more this
one is one of the recent ones which I
adore it is you can see crepe style for
you cold because it came straight from
our refrigerator from their refrigerator
to our refrigerator to my mouth kind of
like a moist texture so it's your
regular like crepe style it has some
whipped cream at the bottom and then it
has these like little biscuits there
freaking awesome cookie crumbs take a
bite
they're just so soft and like Mochi
munchy fluffy and Squishy you can see
the layer of Cheesecake kinda and then
there's the whipped cream at the bottom
it has a cheesecake taste to it just a
nice little dessert grape itself you can
probably just eat the crepe all by
itself it's not good the like little
cookie crumbs it kind of reminds me of
like cookie dough the same kind of
texture can't beat these days these
combini days normally I wouldn't eat so
many all at once you know it's a special
day we do it for you Michael you like
the crepe taste the chicken soup on my
lips so those are my top convenience
snacks for this season welcome back to
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