[Sharla]: Hey guys! [Taylor]: Good morning!
Okay, so today me and Taylor are gonna go to two different convenience stores
7-Eleven and Family Mart, which are probably my two faves,
I used to like Lawson, but recently I'm increasingly liking 7-Eleven and Family Mart [Taylor]: Yeah, I'm a Family Mart girl
[Sharla]: Yeah, they're the best. We're gonna do a challenge and see who can make the best
Japanese convenience store at dinner.
[Taylor]: It might seem like it's difficult to do, but in Japan, it's- the convenience store food is so good [Sharla]: It's so good.
[Taylor]: You can eat there all day, it's totally different. [Sharla]: Yeah, it's totally different than like 7-Eleven in Canada. Your choices are like cold hot dogs
[Sharla]: Yeah, like I think we're gonna be able to find like an actually nutritional...meal [Taylor]: We're gonna surprise you guys
[Sharla]: Okay, let's go [Taylor]: Let's do this.
[Sharla]: Alright, I chose to do my shopping for dinner at
7-Eleven, let's go inside and see what we can find
I was thinking to get some kind of interesting drink, but the only vegan stuff they have its juice or these
Soy milk smoothies which I've heard are pretty gross
Okay, I think I'm good for dinner. I'm gonna move on to dessert, which I think will be kind of hard
But if I can find some traditional Japanese desserts, they're very often vegan
Alright, we have our dinner, it came to
1265 yen
[Taylor]: Alright guys, I'm inside Family Mart now
We're gonna see what I can find for my full three-course dinner
At this point things are looking pretty picked over here
This is after lunch, so it's gonna be a little bit difficult
This is the frozen section which is usually pretty good for dinner
But a lot of the main courses have meat in it
Don't think I see one with just vegetables, let's see here
These are just beans inside, could be okay
Ooh check these out, these are
Noodles made from tofu, and they have this sesame sauce on top, that looks pretty cool
This one doesn't actually contain milk so I can use this too
Might get this too for some extra color and nutrition
Let's go pay
Okay, I've got everything I need. I spent about one thousand- and not about- I actually spent
1026 yen, which is about $10 American. I'm ready to go.
So I'm preparing my dinner
I'm just gonna heat up the broccoli first, cuz it's frozen
So it's literally just plain, frozen broccoli
And then while that is frying up, I'm gonna prepare the noodles here. We've got our vegetables
Greens, they got some protein
We've got some more fruit and vegetables, you've got
Inside here
It's like a bread it can be for dessert, so some carbs and fruit, and carbs's here. Try to cover all nutritional
bases and get a lot of colors
As much as I could find
Which is usually difficult in a convenience store, but in Japan it's not too bad
So, this is a sauce
just like a sesame sauce and you get these this little package of seeds, and then
These are the tofu noodles
sauce here
and now, I'm gonna pour the noodles
There we go
This doesn't look red at all, it's like brown. That was such false advertising- kay pretend that's a nice red pretty color
Got one of these buns
Which I thought had meat in it up until now, but this one is a steamed bun with only red bean inside
So gonna put this just like, okay
Basically this pair, it's like ice cream, but it's not made from milk
There, that's our dessert.
[Taylor]: Bon Appétit. [Sharla]: So I should start with my appetizer. [Taylor]: Yeah. [Sharla]: Alright, here we go. Family Mart
[Taylor]: This is fruit and vegetable
I wanted it to be red because I wanted the colours to balance, like I love green. [Sharla]: Yeah, like you thought of everything
[Sharla]: Well you needed brown. [Taylor]: Wait, no there's brown here, it's already been done
[Sharla]: This isn't bad, at first it really tastes like vegetables, like eurghh, but then the fruit comes through. It is healthy, but
But edible. I'm gonna try these tofu noodles, I'm intrigued
[Taylor]: The sauce at the bottom is not mixed in. [Sharla]: They're completely made from tofu.
[Sharla]: Mmm, they're delicious. [Taylor]: They're delicious?
They must be new, I've never seen these before.
[Sharla]: I'm really craving those.
[Taylor]: Mmm
[Taylor]: The texture's really good.
[Sharla]: They're firmer than I thought they will be.
Ooh broccoli.
[Taylor]: I knew it's your favourite. [Sharla]: Mmm, it's really good actually.
[Taylor]: *Whispers* Bonus points since it's your favourite.
[Sharla]: So far this is really good. I would not mind eating this for dinner
[Sharla]: Alright, let's try this fancy dessert. I don't know where to start
[Taylor]: Cut into it, get a bit. Okay, Sharla does this thing where she eats things individually and it drives me crazy
Because I'm one of those people that likes to mix everything in the sauces to get all the flavors [Sharla]: So I want to get a little
bit of everything? [Taylor]: Yeah, okay like
This is like the cake with the ice cream with the fruit
It's a peach. Thought this is pear.
[Sharla]: Well it's a really interesting mix.
[Taylor]: Does it work?
[Sharla]: But yeah, it's actually good. [Taylor]: Actually, this was supposed to be hot
[Taylor]: *coughs* when I bought it. [Sharla]: It's warm.
[Sharla]: I kinda like it, yeah, this works.
[Sharla]: Yeah I like the coldness of the ice cream.
with the warm bun.
[Taylor]: I like that- I like doing that for dessert.
Balancing, I mean, different temperatures.
[Sharla]: It's good, my favourite's definitely the noodles.
They're so good, I'm gonna be buying these all the time, I love them.
Okay, I'm gonna prepare my 7-Eleven dinner now
I'm quite confident that I found some really interesting stuff, and I think Taylor's gonna like it
Okay, so I'm gonna start off by plating the sashimi konnyaku (konjac)
I've never seen this before, it looks really interesting, and I think it's a cool vegan alternative to sashimi.
Comes with a miso karashi (a type of mustard) sauce
It's kinda cut like sashimi too
For dish number two, I'm going to be making a tofu salad
This is a kale and lettuce salad, got tofu here, and I'm going to add a bit of this kinpira (sauté and simmer)
Gobo salad as well. These are like root vegetables
For the next dish, I found this which is brand new, it's "kuro satou inari" ("black"/brown sugar beancurd pockets)
type of sushi
But normally they're not kuro satou flavored- black sugar? Brown sugar?
So these might be a little sweeter than usual, it's a tofu pocket with rice inside
And for some color, I'm going to place some edamame
on the plate.
For dessert, I've got a selection of Japanese sweets, this is kuromi mochi- walnut
rice cakes
This is a monaka, which is like a wafer with red bean paste inside. I'm most excited for this one
It's yokan, which is usually just made from red beans, but this one is chocolate flavoured
And so I think this is gonna be really good
And my dinner is complete
[Taylor]: Wow, this looks so good, you did so good
This is gonna be tough to pick up though.
[Sharla]: Haha, just stab it with a fork.
[Taylor]: Mmmm
[Sharla]: Is it good? [Taylor]: Mm-hmm.
It's like the restaurant ones like- the sauce is nice.
[Sharla]: Mmm. It tastes so similar to fish.
[Taylor]: Yeah, it does have that...[Sharla]: and the texture?
(Taylor: I guess it's from the sea right?) [Sharla]: It's really similar to raw fish too. They added seaweed to this one (Taylor: Oh, that's why) to make it fishier
I guess
[Taylor]: Mmm
[Taylor]: I love all of these things. [Sharla]: Yeah you can't go wrong with kinpira gobo.
[Taylor]: This is delicious. I could definitely eat this for dinner, really good.
[Taylor]: Ooh I love these too. [Sharla]: Brown sugar. [Taylor]: I've never tried this one
[Sharla]: They are brand new, I wonder if they're sweet.
[Taylor]: Mm-hmm, it's a lot sweeter than the other ones
Has this almost, burnt sugar taste to it.
[Sharla]: Caramel? [Taylor]: Yeah like caramelised or something.
Edamame's always a good idea.
Everything's really good, I don't know what's my favourite.
[Taylor]: I wanna try this. [Sharla]: Yah, chocolate yokan.
[Taylor]: Mmm
[Sharla]: Pretty chocolatey? [Taylor]: Mm-hmm.
It's a good chocolate pudding, but a bit firmer
That's different, that almost tastes like um
You know this chocolate bar Big Turk? [Sharla]: Mm-hmm...yeah! [Taylor]: Inside, that's what that tastes like [Sharla]: Oh weird
[Taylor]: The texture's- same texture.
[Sharla]: Those chocolate yokans are amazing.
[Taylor]: It's really good [Sharla]: It's almost like a brownie, like a really moist brownie.
So good!
[Taylor]: I think my favorite
Probably the salad. I love these flavours together- I love tofu, I love this vegetable
[Taylor]: I'm gonna mix it all together [Sharla]: NOOOO! Don't do it
Let us know down below who you think won the Japanese konbini dinner challenge. Whose dinner would you prefer to eat?
We'll tally up your comments and decide a winner.
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[Taylor]: I'm never cooking again, 7-Eleven every night.
[Sharla]: Haha, right.