It's been a while since the last Conbini food review. Around six months in fact. I made a conscious effort to try and improve my diet, and bank balance, that led to buying far less convenience store food. However, I've been feeling the itch to get back into the habit of eating over-processed junk. And … Continue reading Conbini food review: Soba noodle hotdog
I've had good French toast a handful of times. I've had soggy, wet, bad French toast two armfuls of times. We're looking at six or seven handfuls of poor French toast experiences in my lifetime. A veritable loaf of rubbish, with the rare slice, literally, of goodness. So how does this offering from the good … Continue reading Conbini food review: French Toast with butter
Cherry-blossom season has all but drawn to a close in Japan, but there is just time for one more Sakura themed Conbini food review before the long wait until next spring. Given the relative disappointment of the Cherry Blossom-Flavored donut from the last review, we hope for better things from this Sakura red bean bun. … Continue reading Conbini food review: Sakura red bean bun
We're back trying out some instant noodles from legendary brand Cup Noodle. These noodles are often on the more premium end of the instant noodles scale, so they come with a certain level of expectation. I was also told repeatedly by people I know that this new flavour is extremely good, and, well... I was … Continue reading Conbini food review: Garlic cheese fondue Cup Noodle
This Conbini food review has us making our way down to Mini Stop for the first time. Mini Stop is one of the smaller conbini chains, I've only ever seen about four of them. These hash browns caught my eye when I was looking for some lunch. "Seaweed? In a hash brown?" I thought to … Continue reading Conbini food review: Seaweed hash browns
In the fourth ever Conbini food review we've got a product from Lawson the last (and definitely the worst) of the big three Conbinis. We're looking here at something from their Natural Lawson product line. I'm going to refer to these as Brown Edamame Snack, because that's what the English says on the packet. But … Continue reading Conbini food reviews: Brown Edamame Snack
The first Conbini Food Review from Family Mart, the second of the big three (and in some opinions the best) convenience store. Family Mart has plenty of excellent food, and we will be reviewing lots of it in the near future, but for now we're going for a relative unknown: 大きいウェイナー or, literally, Big Weiner. … Continue reading Conbini food reviews: Weiner
For the second ever Conbini food review I'm trying something a little more ordinary than the fruits sandwich I had last time: cup noodles. Now before we start, a short sidenote: it took me two attempts to do this review. During the first attempt I managed to clumsily knock the entire cup of just about … Continue reading Conbini food reviews: soy sauce cup noodles
This is the start of a new series in which I review food from Japanese convenience stores so you don't have to/because you don't want to/you can't because you're not in Japan. Japanese convenience stores (conbini) are about as central to daily life in this country as you could imagine. You can do almost anything … Continue reading Conbini food reviews: fruits sandwich
Ben Dean-Titterrell 