Okay one thing about the Taiwanese 7 Elevens is that they give you these receipts.
If you're local, you want to keep these receipts because these are kind of like lucky number
or lottery receipts.
You would plug it in and find out if you won anything.
7 Eleven in Asian and Southeast Asia…I dunno…
The U.S. is lagging behind.
Today we're going to take a peek inside the 7 Elevens in taiwan.
For part of the day I have my friend Sharon with me who will help me decode Taiwanese
7 Elevens.
If you buy something online or if you buy something from another convenience store, you can actually have
them deliver it to a 7 Eleven and then you can pick it up here in 7 Eleven. - Oh, no way.
If their client buys something from their store and if they live all the way across town,
they'll just send it to the closest 7 Eleven. And they just pick it up here (laughing).
You don't need to get a P.O. Box, huh? - Yes, yeah.
You can do business here with your bank.
You can have a card that will check on what your balance is for your phone. All different things...
If you have a membership card you can swipe it.
- So you can pay your bills on here too. - Yup.
You can pay your bills, check on how many points you have,… Is there anything else?
According to that particular... For example this is talking about the bank, this was talking about the mobile phone, withdrawing
cash so it's kind of like… and this is, you can buy tickets and stuff too. -Like events and stuff?
Yeah. And this is like a parking… parking tickets.
So if you get a parking ticket... -Yeah. The meter guys that go around put little tickets… and you get charged for every half hour 15
minutes, like 10 NT dollars or 15 NT dollars.
So when you leave you'll still have the ticket on your car, but you can pay it at any 7 Eleven
store. The parking ticket.
- Ah.. What if you don't pay it?
Then if if its past I believe 60 days or something like that you get a fine that's a lot higher
than what the ticket would've been.
My friend, she'll buy one of these $12 NT dollars.
Then she'll fill this whole thing with broth and take
it home and use it as a soup and put noodles in it.
Because the way it's cooked, it's got that flavors of all the fish balls and all those
things in there, so makes a really good soup base… and that's a 12 NT dollar dinner.
These are tofu, that's… turnip,… radish… turnip...
- Ok, so there are veggie options
and then there's corn...
- I'll have to have one of these 30 cent dinners.
While rice is a staple starch, it's still a little weird to be that people here consider
bread as kind of like a breakfast pastry or just like a dessert.
I love that the photo ID their rice balls makes it so much easier to see what's inside.
There's tuna, shredded meat and salmon…
Like a burger-flavored Pringles?
This is… is that egg?
Is that egg or cheese?
They have pineapple M&Ms?
This is interesting.
It comes with chili,.. a packet of chili.
This is their dried fruits section.
Okay, energy drinks and multi mineral drinks.
It's like 38 NT dollars.
Super C. Must be Vitamin C... Oh, and here's what I would normally get.
Beauty drink.
A special drink designed to supply beauty ingredients, collagen.
Supports your beauty from the inside of your body.
Asia, I'm not sure why, but they're really into Collagen drinks.
Thailand also.
I don't remember if Korea was like that too.
But here's vitamin collagen.
soft boiled eggs. uuyyyy... Taro and squid...?
There's definitely things that freak me out and this would be one of them.
Soft boiled eggs but like the inside is really orange.
This is the liquor section.
I wonder what the Taiwanese age limit is for buying alcohol.
Right next to the alcohol are these herbal drinks, which are for health and energy.
Pet food seems kind of natural but from what I see on the streets, the Taiwanese treat
their dogs like human babies.
In winter when it gets cold, 7 Elevens and Family Marts in Taiwan and Korea,...
maybe Japan too.
They sell these shirts. It keeps the heat in.
So you can actually buy shirts here so travelers if you forget your shirts and it's cold,
7 Elevens might have them.
The only problem is that you might want to figure out your size before you purchase them.
Because sizing is always different.
In Asia, you might find sizes run a little smaller.
That's a good to know.
I'm at 7 Eleven right now and i've got this soup where you can pick and choose what type
of ingredients or bits you want.
This meal of 3 items cost me $36 NT dollars.
Tofu and corn on the cob! Mmm... Tofu... Fried tofu.
Mmm. I love this!
This is like a fish cake.
Let me taste.
Mmm... it 's a fish cake. It's amazing actually.
It's got corn, fishcake, carrot, onion.
Next time I need to get more of these.
7 Eleven. Yup.
And the soup… perfect for a cold night actually.
This broth tastes like a saimin broth. Light, a little salty, got the flavor of seafood in it.
I've been on my feet since around 11am to 9pm at night.
That's a long time to be on my feet continuously.
Now my feet are very mad at me.
That's why I"m at 7 Eleven eating.
Eventually they'll forgive me.