good afternoon guys are set up for lunch today on RMC from all of these dishes
and desserts and drinks on the table we have quite the spread yeah I bought
everything from 7-eleven this morning we walked over and just grabbed a whole
bunch of different items we sure did and 7-eleven is so popular in Japan in
particular like you see them on every street corner yeah and it's not just a
little convenience store or you go to like buy a few drinks pick up magazines
like you can make an entire meal you make a big meal there you can do photos
coffee and you can pay bills you've got an ATM this Wi-Fi some of the 7-elevens
even have a spot to eat it's almost like a co-op it I wouldn't call it a
restaurant but a quasi area to eat yes so warm up your food for you there's all
this great package yeah you only have microwaves they have
hot water so if you buy noodles in a cup you can like add boiling water and they
cook right there so you kind of pop sticks there's so much more than just a
convenience store yes so we thought it would show you a 7/11 lunch yeah we
tried to pick out a lot of different items to kind of show you the variety
that you can find in the store yes so like there's a big good section you can
buy your salads or you don't count on it one two three four five six seven eight
nine ten eleven twelve twelve full thing items for lunch three of them being
drinks Wow how many are desserts there's three desserts chips yeah yeah and
basically if two means and then the rest are kind of all smaller yes so let's dig
right in if we should start the entrees okay we got on to Thursday I was going
straight for the noodles okay so for my entree I got a little salad yeah tuna in
it yeah it looks like a coleslaw salad with carrots lettuce corn
egg tuna there's no dressing I don't think you came addressing me if
it did couldn't find it that seems a little bland drunk you know I'm gonna
try some of it to go for it stick it I'm grabbing some tuna mmm oh I like the
tuna it's like a garden salad with eggs China basically that's not bad I'm not
getting a ton of fresh veggies though today so that's not bad when you get a
bit of tuna and egg in them and your bite it's not so dry but if it's just
cold slaw it's like why don't we move on to this one mm-hmm
every morning eating only giddy first only giddy mm-hmm oh my god we've been
talking about this for a long time yeah and the one I picked up was a tuna
flavor so I'll take it bite it I'll let you try it too oh yeah oh wow it's
basically like a rice triangle wrapped in dry seaweed and it can come with
different fillings this one is tuna and mayo yeah yeah we had a lot of these in
Korea they're called triangle gimbap over there you can find these basically
everywhere you find them in supermarkets you find them at 7-eleven you know the
packaging is really interesting because it's wrapped in such a way like you have
to pull down three different plastic parts yeah that keep the rice separate
from the seaweed so it won't get all soggy while it's there on the shelf
you did a good job of that you got it you got it right my first go yeah you
folded it really well so yeah this is this you wouldn't have as a meal this
would be like a perfect snack or if you were gonna have it as a meal you'd have
to have other other things to go along with it yeah you like it
I do like I never another plate of that it's got a bit of a spicy mayo no okay
one other what are their appetizers do we have oh you're the dried fish so I'm
just gonna pour that out here for us you guys can you see it all look at that it
was phenomenal these are like little stringy bits is that fish sauce squid
are you gonna splint I feel like could be squid attention explain to me I can't
talk on the packaging there's no yeah really tastes good it's like very
dry very chewy I like it I think I got more than you probably would you be done
at the start I feel like this is a type of snacks and word grab if we were going
to a movie in Asia yeah bus ride let me stick this in my
pocket bring it into the ruling but yeah another interesting 7-eleven
before we move on to our beans that we also have we just found these like two
days ago for the first time these are amazing and there are seven eleven items
you see that have a 7-eleven logo there were sloppy chips yes
and they taste like sure they do have the wasabi flavoring but they also have
like a crack pepper kind of flavoring this is actually my new favorite snack
and stuff in Japan I should say not well I live from 7-eleven - yeah if I was
thinking of like one thing to have that wasn't sweet but kind of crunchy and
cheap and tasty to take along somewhere like that for the wasabi chips yeah you
know I had really fun 7-eleven because I first discovered them when we started
backpacking around Southeast Asia know especially when we were in a big city
and it was really hot like Bangkok for example yeah we always be like seeking
out AC like if we needed to walk from point A to point B yeah and it was
really far it's like jiggly go ahead go into a 7-eleven and cool down a little
bit but we would get a cold drink and my 9-3 would stay in the or an ice cream
and stay inside and drink it with the air conditioning all right why don't we
move on to the drinks and you got one you've never tried to yeah and I have
one I haven't tried before - called Suntory sparkling snow-peak happy Elkin
as you can also tell here it says it has zero calories so and what's yours no it
looks I thought it was gonna be something fruity just based off of the
colors and now I'm looking at it and there's like
I'm an exercising but there's a splashing suppress as if there's if
there's a route they're washing in water I feel like this might be a vitamin
drink could be will we technically they get another drink that was ahead of me
trick okay so I'm totally sparkling let's try it might smells it coolly
oh this is cool this is like a little bit like a ginger ale but without the
sugar and it's refreshing it has a ginger taste and it doesn't have the
sugar it doesn't have the sweetness mine is like watered-down Gatorade with swamp
I feel like this is a drink that you have a sports drink after you've been
like you know running out in the Sun oh yeah it does have a sports drink taste
yeah very subtle sweetness to it I like my more has more bite oh you're the
super fizzy the last one to try again is there's a bottle too yeah this is a
vitamin C drink I think you might have a thousand milligrams okay I get in a
thousand milligrams of vitamin C and then the rest is in Japanese I have no
idea you know this reminds me of the drink that used to sell in Korea and
like a little brown bottle with an orange label and if you felt like you
were getting a cold you were about to get sick you would get that vitamin C
drink and just the whole time this has a lot of it it looks like that
you know we're out of our little vitamin C it tastes it tastes like a vitamin C
tablet that's been dissolved in water hmmm we should also mention the price of
all this it only keeps like 20 bucks yes we'll have 12 items there's 2100
something in so yeah 20 less than 20 US dollars for all this food and keep in
mind we're probably gonna probably won't finish it although we're gonna have a
line machiner and her dinner all right won't move on to the mains though won't
do want to try my first time will fire sure mine requires some preparation
mine's yakisoba they microwave this about 45 minutes ago it's still still
warm lukewarm I think all the noodles yeah so soba it's technically a
buckwheat noodle but for a yakisoba it can be any type of noodle it can be just
a plain noodle not like we as it tangy kind of like soy sauce kind of switchin
a little sweet got some beef in there that could definitely be a meal in and
of itself pickled stuff on the side mm-hmm it's not bad it's not my favorite
no we've had a lot of really good noodles in Japan like I've really
enjoyed my ramen might Adhan soba so now I don't know I feel like yakisoba is the
bottom of the barrel yeah I mineral Department mm-hmm well
let's try yours so I got the cold soba noodles cold buckwheat noodles I mean
the color there's like a little bit gray mm-hmm you've got a sauce so this is
like really stuck together hopefully the sauce will oh just to a bunch of them is
this for dipping yes you put in here and you dip the noodles in there okay let's
all right let's assemble my look I got nori another little seaweed seaweed
pieces okay liquid stop there it goes oh the new spring onions to one of my one
of my legs is already falling asleep gasps huh so want to make sure we're
going to throw in the spring onions as well sure it's a white liquid let's try
it without that yeah that's we if it doesn't feel good enough then we'll have
it we're gonna make a mess on this table I can tell you now okay let's try it
does that feel complete tastes like soy sauce with the chives maybe we should
put in the other one this white liquid be mmm in the middle
of them yeah the the buckwheat noodles are really relation for summer yeah I'd
really enjoy what do this right now guys it's like the middle one where's it just
water it is this for like separating to be watering it down so I pour it on the
noodles no I wouldn't do that I don't why I don't want it on the
noodles yeah pour a little bit more there and just leave it okay there's
some left in there dunking it in again I'm taking it for a big swim loss is so
refreshing that's the thing with packaging in Japan it's only in Japanese
so there's like a lot of mystery a lot of things that you just don't know am I
supposed to eat it like this this is how it goes am i doing it right what I love
leg is falling asleep yeah stretch your mouth stretch em Oh any favorite so far
I feel like not much sweeter mmm my favorite so far I like the chips I
actually like my noodles gary was nice I would take another bite of that like my
gingery son Toby sparkling mm-hmm I'm trying to think what else we can tell
you guys about 7-elevens here in Japan you know what yeah a lot of them are
open 24 hours mm-hmm not something that you know because when we first got to
Japan and you were super jet lag we're waking up at like 1:00 to 3:00 in the
morning and we'd run over to the convenience store he'd be working there
I think also there their menu changes throughout the day it's like you can go
in at different times of the day and they have different things stock
especially for like these these prepackaged meals that need to be ended
up I've also noticed if you go towards the end of the day they discount the
meals just like they do in the supermarket because they obviously want
to clear their their stalks so they have fresh meals prepared for the following
day so it's realize it really has a really good budget tip but yeah we've
been frequenting convenience stores quite often I'd say at least once a day
like if we're not having a meal there we're usually popping in for a drink or
like a little snack enjoying those noodles on your final greeting good
there's some interesting dessert two of them are green matcha green tea with a
cookie and looks like a lovely a cannoli again Japanese cannoli kind of italy and
japan collide in the form of a pastry is 7-eleven we once you had a pretty big
piece Street section know you have like a lot of donuts and cookies and baked
goods I went for something that looks pretty North American like this look
like a long twisted glazed doughnut yeah should we want to dessert let's move on
tonight I could leave my noodles for later maybe for dinner huh and yeah I'm
eyeing that just looks so good thing is heavy in the head it's like I
picked that up it's like whoa it's got a lot of icing sugar on it I went for size
check this baby out look at that so has glaze on one side no
this plane on the other and let's fight it I hope this is like a Krispy Kreme
donut that's what I'm hoping for you try some of that too no should be
I've got one of Aesop's tails but it's not like the Krispy Kreme I was dreaming
up at my head no really yeah a toilet convenience store supermarket Cola yeah
I feel like it's the Japanese version of a donut Japan's baked goods are very
different from what you get cause we're in the world but I am gonna eat it I'm
probably gonna eat the whole thing
you're falling everywhere move on the matcha green tea is called matchup white
choco cookie then you get one it reminds me so much of the subway cookies subway
sandwich and actually this one kind of reminds me
of though it's the white chocolate with macadamia nut okay
as I see messiahs just a texture I'm gonna try that I'm gonna grab a bite you
bull Wang blue tastes of Machop has the same texture as the subway cookies too
it's an icon it's not it's not a crispy cookie more insulin want soft and chewy
Oh hold on the delayed onset of the white chocolate chips years ago about
let's see make sure you get a big bite with the white chocolate chip like
chocolate chips Oh white chocolate chips I like real
chocolate chip I like this it's interesting I'm undecided I like it more
than the doughnut are you going to do more no and the last thing for us to try
guys is actually it's not like a cannoli now that I'm touching it to like a
pancake it looks like a match of pancake and inside there's red bean pista well
as your means and then I think this is kind of like a matcha cream oh it's not
like whipped cream yes that's my favorite part Azuki beans at
the bottom of the pancake is really fluffy and the cream is also very light
it's a lot a thick cream boo it is a fluffy pancake I know you mean this is
not what I was expecting no me neither I thought that the shell
might be harder but it is actually just a it's a fluffy pancake like that one
that's pretty good that's pretty tasty I love the means the beans are everywhere
how many desserts have we had with red bean paste yeah that pretty much
concludes our our meal trying different things from a Japanese 7-eleven yeah we
wanted to show you guys the variety that you have inside the stores yep and like
it seriously there's like a salad section cold noodle section though you
can get western-style food like spaghetti zuv carbonara and tomato sauce
you can even pick up non-food items just make jeans or school supplies it's like
it's so much more than just a place to get your Slurpee and chocolate bars and
chips like in North America and they even have like an entire section where
it's household cleaning supplies like for your toilet or if you need toilet
paper Windex yeah you can really find it all
find it all so Phil you ever visit Japan definitely have to go to several of it
try eating out of 7-eleven so hope you guys enjoy this I hope you guys enjoyed
this video we still have some work food to eat but we are gonna say goodbye
farewell