I audibly gasped when I saw this on the shelf. I've been a fan and frequenter of Coco Ichibanya, one of Japan's most iconic curry chains, for a long time now. To see they've come out with an official cheese curry pan is a very exciting prospect... Now I looked everywhere on the packaging for … Continue reading Conbini food review: Coco Ichiban cheese curry pan
After the unpleasant sickly soba experience of our last food review, we're sticking with the sandwich theme. This time it's FamilyMart providing a hotdog shaped adventure into the world of conbini sandwich madness. It feels necassary to point out that I don't like pistachios very much. And I don't really enjoy pistachio flavoured things, most … Continue reading Conbini food review: Pistachio cream sandwich
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
While trying new conbini foods is one of the goals of these reviews, sometimes it is necessary to report on something tried and true. This karaage (fried chicken) is a personal favourite. Nearly a couple of years ago, I was buying this karaage on a stick so often after work each day that the cashier … Continue reading Conbini food review: 7-Eleven Karaage on a stick
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
The last two Conbini food reviews, Ketchup-flavored Spaghetti and Garlic Cheese Fondue Cup Noodle, were very poor experiences. So for this edition I am reviewing something I know I enjoy immensely. Let's have a Nikuman. This particular Nikuman (meat bun) came from 7-Eleven, the pinnacle of convenience store Nikuman excellence. I first ate one of … Continue reading Conbini food review: 7-Eleven Nikuman
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
Full disclosure is very important, and with that in mind I must mention that this is not the first time I've eaten Karage-kun. I have had them plenty of times, and tried all but maybe one flavour. For this review I'm having the regular flavour, so as to experience the original intentions of Karage-kun's creators. … Continue reading Conbini food review: Karage-kun
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
Ben Dean-Titterrell 