these are my favorite japanese
convenience store snacks for the summer
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okay so i'm back with another one of
these videos i haven't done it for
several months but i thought it was
appropriate to do it now because one the
summer is coming in two japan is
starting to slowly open up therefore i
want to share some of my favorite
convenience store snacks for the summer
this year in 2022 so that when you guys
get here you'll have some snacks to look
forward to but like always before i
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number one rich garlic butter flavored
green pea snack from family mart okay so
this one right here is the rich garlic
butter flavored green pea snack so this
right here looks like edamame but it's
actually in tomame which is a little bit
different and then it has some garlic
here and then i think they put it all
together to make this green pea snack it
comes in this little like wavy
philippines
texture oh yeah yeah yeah
that's what i'm talking about
it's so crispy and crunchy the first
thing you taste is that garlic punch and
then afterwards you kind of taste the
butter and the green pea snack at the
end it is a little bit salty oh and
something i should note right here it
says fami mode
um which is a collaboration between
family mart so you can only find this at
family mart it just grows on you so
quickly just like paula from tokyo it
took a long time to grow
if you read the back here it says shrimp
it also has some crab and egg in here
oh you look at it
yeah that doesn't mean that's like an
essential taste of this chips hey do you
want to try this sure look at my eyes
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it is really garlicky it has like a
little bit of like cheesiness for some
reason
it has cheese butter cheese butter it
does have a cheesiness too right i think
if it was only garlicky it has like a
garlic aftertaste but it has like a mild
cheesy milky aftertaste it's good i push
this push i can't push it this way oh no
you mean you oh
man no you can say push and pee what
does it mean i can't remember if it's a
good thing or a bad thing but i think
it's one of the latest words these days
oh really
number two hobo creamer cream pop from
lawson puff the magic dragon he lived by
the sea
you don't know that song this is a cream
puff from lawson it's called hobo cream
oh this is made by yamazaki i love this
thing it is so delicious
what does tokoto
it's like cream on top of cream
but you want some more cream on top of
that some more okay let me just break
this open in front of the camera so i'm
not the best at this
i always kind of mess up but we're going
to do it anyway
oh
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it is like a rich milk taste but it is
so creamy the bun itself is just super
super soft the texture is really on the
chewy side sometimes like cream puffs
have like this really airy dough but
this one is like mochi it's like
essentially like like a mochi dough with
this ultra silky smooth cream filling
and it is amazing i actually just want
to have this whole thing to myself but i
think i need to share it
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sookie
it has a certain consistency like a
firmness but it's still airy and the
cream is good it's not like i'm only
eating cream i feel like i am still
eating a skin which is really good
number three cheeky cheeky bone torikawa
chips from nippon ham this video would
not be complete if we didn't have some
sort of fried chicken snack this one is
the fried chicken hitter for this video
they are like little chicken skins this
is called cheeky cheeky bone maybe it's
like
boom
boom where is that from
the chicken with some beer what a great
combination little does he know he's the
one that's gonna get eaten
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you see the peppers all up in there as
well
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yeah it's crunchy it's peppery not so
light has that oily fried chicken skin
taste you know you can take the chicken
skin and just cook it fry it up and then
serve it it tastes exactly like that a
little bit salty this snack is not one
of those snacks that i would crave if i
was just like oh let me get that chicken
snack and just kind of like eat by
itself but it's like the snack where if
you are drinking with friends and you
want to have like a little like dishes
to to eat while you're drinking and this
is like the perfect thing to do
yeah i like the tray that does look good
like moss
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i feel like i'm eating fried oil yeah
the perfect beer snack it's really oily
but it makes you want to take another
sip of your beer a bit so now i would
wash it down with a beer but then like i
don't think i'm gonna go for another i
do really
number four grill montanboshi omelette
rice from lawson so this is the omurice
in english omelet rice it basically is
egg and then you have in japanese they
call it a ketchup rice ketchup rice
doesn't sound so appealing to
non-japanese people like we don't know
it's still good nonetheless and it's
only 555
yen wow
as you can see
the eggs are i don't know how they've
done it but it's still like quite runny
dip
look at that see how just
put it on some of this rice see that
just runny egg right there
boom
wow
that is so much a flavor there is a lot
going on in this dish first of all the
eggs are phenomenally runny they're not
like hard and like crusty they're just
kind of like a gooey gooey egg which i
love the demi glace sauce is a little
bit sweet but it also has like a
bitterness to it and then the rice does
have that like tomato ketchup flavor but
also it has some onions in here and i
should note that it is like a
collaboration between lawson and grill
montanboshi and i feel like there's like
pieces of chicken in here yep you can go
sauce to rice or you can go rice to
sauce
whichever way you like it you ate the
whole entire rice like there's a big
hole and there's like you left a lot of
eggs
it's crazy how like they keep is so
runny if you microwave it that much it
gets hard but it's super runny they must
be like cream or something but the rice
has a little sourness eggs has a good
texture but the taste itself is kind of
flat you know it's a really good balance
hey stop eating it
number five crunchy ume plums from
family mart so this one's gonna change
the flavor profile of what we've been
eating so far the crunchy plum hitter no
artificial flavors or food coloring
brought to you by fami
this is hitokuchi karikari umkuchi
means like one bite you know usually you
see it they're red but these are green
obviously
um it's almost like a texture of a
pickle
but
it has just the right amount of sourness
also is more on the pickled side oh my
yeah it's sweet sour and has kind of
like a dill pickle kind of taste to it
it's like a mix between the japanese
pickling and the western pickling that's
why i kind of like it also i like the
crunchiness and this one you can
definitely eat the whole bag and it's
refreshing like it's perfect for the
summer so the whole bag itself is only
13 calories so if you want a snack and
you're trying to limit your calorie
intake then this is the way to go number
six karaika from joki this next one is
one of my favorites it is a
spicy ika snack and it's like one big
piece of dried hika i'm opening it like
a professional
look at that perfectly shaped there's
actually one two three four there's five
total of these brilliant snacks you can
see that it is a little bit thin
crispity crackety crackle dackly good
let's take the first bite
it kind of has like a tortilla chip
texture when you bite into it it's a
little bit maybe even harder than a
tortilla chip definitely is
spicy
no it's not like burning your tongue but
it's like oh it is spicy
i love the crunchiness to it and if you
want to have something just a little bit
spicy but not too spicy then this is the
perfect snack number seven aloe yogurt
bar from morinaga if you ever get a
sunburn what is the first thing that you
should do for your skin get out of the
sunlight no no what do you put no what
do you put on
yeah
there you go this
is an aloe yogurt bar when i first came
to japan one of my favorite favorite
snacks was right here aloe yogurt have
you ever had it if you had it before i
feel like i haven't seen this
maybe it's been around maybe it has
maybe it hasn't but now it is a nice bar
and i believe melted a little bit when i
bought this it might not be true to form
of like how it's supposed to look so i
apologize for that
it's a little bit melted huh
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that is so refreshing it's like
literally the same taste as the yogurt
but i feel like they've done something
to the mixture even this just came out
of our freezer it's still soft and
pliable or chewy yeah it has aloe chunks
in here but the yogurt is so strong but
it does have that aloe flavor i don't
know what else to say about this thing
but it's just so good and so this one i
actually got at 7-eleven sometimes not
all of the combinations have the same
stuff probably best luck to find it
there but you know it might be another
one so definitely check it out it is my
one and only recommendation for ice
cream in this video it's still good it's
wonderful it is a wonderful life let's
move on to the next one
number eight saku saku panda from kabaya
so this one i wanted to include mainly
for its cute design hit the music
panda panda panda panda panda so there
we go we got the peach and butterfly pea
panda hitter is that a flower you've
never seen a butterfly pee before i've
actually never seen one either it says
asian pigeon wing
i love the smell it really smells like
bag of tea and flowers what i love about
this too is that the pandas they all
have different faces in here you got
angry panda dead panda drunk panda this
panda even has a mask oh this one's
clapping let's do angry panda because
get rid of that guy we don't need angry
pandas in our life
it's basically a chocolate cookie
biscuit but i think i like this one
because it has such a unique and
interesting flavor it's like a mix of
the peach and then this butterfly pea
kind of like an herbal tea it's a little
bit refreshing but also like you're
eating a box of flowers
or old women but at the end of the day
it's like a chocolate biscuit flavored
with tea like
can you taste just taste it
i can maybe put it on my face i look
like i'm crappy crappy
we're keeping that one so excited like a
mess
harvard on it all women
oh woman
number nine angel's cheesecake from
family mart you know what's awesome
family mart lawson all these places are
just constantly pumping out sweets and
they have like this little section where
you know it's constantly rotating and
right now family mart has this
cheesecake says tenshin no cheesecake
angel cheesecake lovely cheesecake smell
it has a crumbly top right here
i mean this is just like a good old
cheesecake and then if you just dig deep
into here you can see crumbly cake on
top it's not like crunchy or anything
it's like the actual moist cake if you
have some whipped cream there custardy
thing in the middle you can see just at
the bottom here whipped cream plus all
of the cheesecake filling like a custard
filling you can't go wrong with this it
is so good this one is kind of like a
sponge cake almost it has like the
crumbly on the top also has a crumble
like red dough on the bottom not to say
that the cream isn't in here because it
is filled with cream beautiful way to
live a life i love doing these videos
and number 10 mikasa yakisoba fried
noodles with egg from lawson so we are
going all festivals today yakisoba
i'm bringing the festival back home so
this one is another one of my favorites
for the summer one because it's just
festival friendly sometimes you can't go
to the festival because of kovid but now
they're starting to open up michael and
i went yesterday if you guys want to see
that video it'll probably appear on our
tokyo zebra channel probably six months
from now if you were to
translate this it'd be fried noodle with
egg from 538 yen with tax yeah so it's
quite affordable less than five dollars
it has some of these fluffy runny eggs
here you have the yakisoba noodles
tenkasu has some aonori which is seaweed
in this piece of pork cabbage um i
forgot what this is called venison
ginger pickled ginger anyways let me
just take a bite of all of this get some
of this noodles right here just like so
that is some good yakisoba it has you
know your standard yakisoba taste has
the
the egg is nice and soft and it has a
savoriness to it it's so good and this
is like the perfect portion size this is
another collaboration between lawson and
the shop is called mikasa in jimbocho
just serves yakisoba they have some of
the best yakisoba like i mean they're so
good that they're able to make an actual
shop or yakisoba that's how good it is
and one of their kind of like signature
things is having a runny egg which is
why this one has a runny egg as well
so what i like it about it is that it
has a lot of cabbage and vegetables
and it gives like a shaky crispness
the noodles it's really like much
did you talk about the noodles i said
they're good
they're flat it's not too thin it's like
a medium size
yeah
okay there you go those are my favorite
snacks for the summer if you guys like
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