First day back in Tokyo Japan and the first thing I want to eat is food from the local 7-Eleven. Here trying out some new food items and found some delicious dishes I've never tried before.
Oh
Would you follow me or would you let it be
If I leave tonight, we could do this, right?
We'll find the remedy. Oh, would you stay with me now till the morning light?
I know that I told you we're over. I swear that i'm sober just listen. I miss you
Good morning, I don't want to see that. It's kind of messy
I've been in japan for about a day and a half now
And like I said, i'll be here for about two and a half weeks and first few days just feels kind of lazy
Like I don't really want to do much. It's a saturday. All the restaurants are going to be busy
I just want to go get some simple stuff and I really liked what I did in taiwan
Just go to 7-elevens go to convenience stores grab some stuff that's convenient and cheap stuff
I can eat either in the store or come back here and wash it down with a set of how I met your mother
Right now it's about eight o'clock in the morning. My stomach's been rumbling since six
So we gotta go eat. By the way, if you haven't seen it on my vlog channel, this is my little apartment here in tokyo
It's kind of messy
and
my view
of nothing
Whatever that sign is. That's one view. I can see a little bit of the daylight
Just so just to know if it's sunny or rainy kitchen
fridge
And these are really confusing things. Like i'm not really sure what this is
I'm thinking it's the stove, but it has a volume button. I don't know if that controls the sizzle
It's a very modern kind of high techie
Little apartment
Washing machine no dryer
Shower system. Yeah, look at this. You can actually turn on
Like the heat for the shower room so you can shower in maximum comfort the lock system is so
Secure got two of these locks that you open by pushing these little things
And this is what I love about tokyo I walk outside and this is the main street right here and right away family mart there
And 7-eleven there
Little kids going to school on a saturday kind of brings back memories of china
Also, I mean they're just literally going by themselves I don't think kids can do that nowadays, right
And I got lucky they're restocking all the food as we speak right now
Potato salad with bacon anything with a 7-eleven premium. That's kind of what I look for
Some kimchi this is what I love all the rental boxes freshly stocked
Spring onion hot pot looks good
Check it out
Oh, it's been too long
Mapo tofu bento
Meat over rice always a good option
Oh, this is new. This is something they just created for valentine's day the rose rice cake
This looks awesome
Sesame parfait
Try to pace myself already. This is just breakfast
I'll be eating here for the next 24 hours at least so
I think this should this should do for now. Oh, this is a special two chocolate steamed bun. Oh, I don't think I have it anymore
This is so good. Calpis soda. Oh a dango
I think I got a good haul
Every time I go into one of these places. I want to try stuff
I've never tried before because there's always like, you know
Hidden gems and food items that are really good that not a lot of people may know about so basically going to 7-eleven
It's almost like treasure hunting for me for so long
I've been trying to get you out of my head. Oh, yeah
But somehow I always seem to wake up in your bed
Welcome to saturday morning breakfast, you know, you can always tell
How
How many people that the staff thinks are actually eating this stuff from the number of chopsticks they give you three four
Little do they know
This is all I need. All right. I think my rice ball is melting
I'm gonna put this in the fridge for now. I'm not gonna forget it though
I gotta try this. This looks so incredible. This is a spring onions hot pot
I can't tell whether there's meat inside or not. This is a little yuzu packet
Yeah, a little yuzu packet and it says
Yuzu and pepper. Oh, it does have a little pork right there 500 watt four minutes
Waiting for the microwave to finish cooking your 7-eleven might just be the most excruciating thing
You can ever feel pretty sure if anybody ever wanted to torture me just do this. I mean, I smell it. I want it
I just can't have it yet
I just got my first 7-eleven injury. Oh
I was trying to deep plastic my my chopsticks and I just went like this
Of course, and I didn't see there was a toothpick in here. So this thing just stabbed the heck out of me
It's actually bleeding pretty bad. It's like stabbed really really deep. Yeah, whatever the pain in my stomach's worse
Don't do what I did when trying to open chopsticks from 7-eleven. There's a toothpick in there. All right
Itadakimasu
Oh, so this thing. Ooh
Tender tofu big chunks of spring onions. And if you never had spring onions from japan, it's
Wonderful. So garlicky and refreshing. It's like, uh, maybe little pieces of daikon in here pork belly cabbage
This is just a really nice
Light soupy hot pot dish and I feel like this needs a little spice. I'm gonna eat that with a little kimchi
I'm gonna add the yuzu
This is so good this reminds me of the samurai cuisine
I had a couple years back a lot of nabe a lot of spring onions
Broth is so nice beautifully porky
Ah fresh spring onions you guys can hear the crunch, right?
The texture of the spring onions is firm is sweet
Extremely crispy and the sweetness stands out more
Because it's cooked into savory broth
Oh, there's a hair in here. Oh, this is horrible
That's definitely not my hair. It's ingrained into the soup
Well, at least we know that you know humans actually put this together. Yeah, whatever. What's a little hair?
I came from new york. Seriously. This is not the worst i've done
I'll tell you guys once at a sushi shop in new york city
Not even kidding
There was a small fly on the plate of my sushi the chef takes it like in front of me
Not even like let me go to the back and create this like mystery
So it gives you the psychological comfort that I that I gave you a new sushi plate in front of me
Chopsticks took the fly off sets it back in front of me. So I did the only thing I could
I ate it. I mean it doesn't enhance the flavor. I wish it wasn't in there, but
I'm, not gonna waste food because of it. All right next up. I gotta try this mapo tofu. This looks awesome
Once you microwave everything you lift this up
And do this with one hand you dump it onto your rice
And they even give you
A citron peppercorn packet to dump on top of the tofu because all lovers of mapo tofu knows you gotta have
Dried peppercorn on top this honestly looks and smells better than some mapo tofu i've seen in restaurants
You know that the really runny kind with peas and carrots in there. Yeah, this looks smells so much more authentic really tender. Nice
Nice use of tender tofu little bits of minced meat
I gotta say
This is yamalicious
Whoa might be my new favorite dish from 7-eleven get this next time I could serve this at a restaurant
No one would complain nice fermented bean flavor. This tofu is as gentle as a mama's kiss little bits of chewy pork
I mean it's not as spicy
As I would have loved but it's got that nice peppery flavor probably because of the peppercorn powder
So it's nummy and it's so saucy and whenever you eat this thing the fermented bean flavor the soybean flavor
I mean, that's kind of what i'm looking forward to besides the spices. It is an abundance here
Home run 7-eleven more than mixed up for that hair eat it with some of the kimchi
That's great kimchi by the way, you know what
This is so good. I'm gonna add in some potato salad with bacon make this even better. Let this join the party, you know
A little bacon little potatoes mixed with my
Porky tofu dish that just means you never had potatoes and rice before and I feel sorry for you
That is not bad at all with the potato salad, I mean traditionally
You know ancient chinese people
By the way, kelp is peach soda
Oh so yummy, it's like they squeezed a peach in there from the orchard
This morning and then brought this to my face
Anyway, like I was saying mayonnaise-y bacon potato might not be what the ancient chinese envisioned to go best with this dish
But i'm just saying a little mayonnaise-y mushy potato
To go with some nice spicy tofu and meat
It's not a bad pairing that's half the fun of eating at a
7-eleven in these asian countries is you can buy all sorts of ingredients and food items and more likely than not
It's gonna taste good and you can mix and match and you can combine flavors together
It's like a food playground for adults, you know, you go there a lot of things to choose from
Mix and match
Have a good time. Now. Let's see how the salmon tastes without this
This is like premium gold dish when you see this icon, it's supposed to be amazing
Roasted salmon and it's nice that they give you a really fatty piece, too
Oh, I don't know if salmon is accepting marriage proposals, but i'm about to try oh my god
It is fatty and melts in your mouth. You gotta be careful. There's bones in this thing. It's got a sweet
Teriyaki flavor melty pieces of meat so juicy. There's so much flavor this end
You see this right here. See that fat. This is the best part. See my how my chops are just like
See all that juice coming out of the salmon. This is all fat and this oh, this is gonna be the best part of the fish
Oh my god, it tastes like it just came off the grill that fat is everything
I can't believe i'm eating a piece of microwave salmon
You know that dry piece of junk that you get every time you go to red lobster or a lot of seafood restaurants
Trust me this little four dollar microwave piece of salmon
20,000 times better than what you're eating right now than what you paid twenty thirty dollars for you know
I want to talk to 7-eleven. I just want to open like a
Like a 7-eleven restaurant
In the u.s. And i'll just serve this my entire
Kitchen will just be like 30 microwaves people can come in. I'll just microwave these things up honest truth
How many of you will come to that?
I've had countless dry pieces of junk salmons in my life that I paid probably 15 20 dollars for this
Beats all that. I still think japan's 7-eleven is the best in the world apart from that hair incident a little earlier every single thing
I've had there. There's so many just
unbelievably
mind-blowing food items
This looks great too
Slices of beef on top of rice covered in sesame and sauce the beef has got a nice mixture
Lean strip of fat in the middle and as soon as this thing is opened
Oh, you can smell the charred grilled flavor some rice
a little beef
Oh, this is so good and they also put like a little bit of pickled veggies in here because the meat is all
Melty, you can see the marbling just streaming through the meat. I can read some of the characters. It said, uh
Time
Which is charred grilled beef another great
Great dish from 7-eleven. Oh, i'm so excited about this
Ippudo, I had the Ippudo instant noodles before i've never had it
in this form
This is basically cooked and then packed seasoning packet tonkatsu ramen with roasted pork fillet fresh spring onions
noodles
Seaweed big chashu on top
Ippudo ramen from a microwave. Oh, it's hot. It's hot broth is on the bottom. I think it's boiling right now
i'm gonna try to
Get the ingredients in without hurting myself
Wow
This thing is kind of uh looks a little dry tons of spring onions noodles actually feels pretty springy
Even though they've been in the microwave. I'll be honest does not look half bad
Here's some white pepper. Of course. Ippudo ramen is really good with some raw garlic
That's Ippudo broth, I mean this is legit, of course they definitely packed this whole thing with original ingredients
Right the noodles obviously they're not going to be as springy as if you actually went into the restaurant but for something out of a
microwave
That is way better than I thought
So I guess if you don't want to wait in the line of a typical Ippudo or if you just don't want to leave your apartment
Like how i'm feeling in the last couple days
This is 100% much better than the instant noodle option eat that with a little salmon and kimchi
It's like an almost restaurant experience without leaving your house not for the true test
That chashu is dry that's not very good or flavorful
Authentic Ippudo ramen from the microwave
Sesame parfait with mochi rice balls. I think this is
Sesame cream some kind of little cake. This thing looks crazy good
Oh, this is awesome heck yeah, oh man, this is great putting stuff on the bottom too. There's so much sesame in here
So many different textures that little cake on top bouncy and chewy
Wow and the most milky smooth pudding base the genius is they put roasted
Sesame on top so you actually get a little crunchy texture
Looking at this. There's like three four different uses of sesame
You know, they put the sesame on the side little sesame paste that asians love
It's got such a huge sesame flavor a little sesame cream and then little bits of roasted sesame as well
Just with some tea. Hang on a second
Yeah, don't go small when I go for my tea
This was some tea
Magical, I mean this thing tastes like the perfect first date, you know, sweet magical full of surprises and sesame
Like this right here. I've been eyeing this ever since I walked into the 7-eleven
Made in Hokkaido already tells me it's good pink rice cake with red bean paste and what's really cool about 7-eleven here is that
They make things based on holidays and seasons and this of course
It's definitely made for valentine's day a little shriveled up rose on the top
Cool chewy mochi-esque rice on the outside creamy sweet bean paste. I'm gonna eat this rose
Oh
Wow, okay. So what they did with the rose was that they soaked it in the same marinade and make salty plum
So it's like
Salty that's kind of surprising. I didn't expect to actually have flavor. This is a cute little dessert
I mean ladies, come on. We're a little pink rose sticky rice ball. Dango is something
I love to get in japan
Oh, this is so good when it was freshly roasted one of my favorite things to get in kyoto
Salty sweet gooey and ever so delicious. All right, I think the rest of the morning
Put on a little how I met your mother drink my tea. I still got a couple sandwiches
I kind of made a mistake. This is the blueberry cream sandwich. I thought it was great. I had this before
It's okay. Not the best and I got my egg sandwich as a little
Mid-episode snack. I think this is how i'm gonna spend my day so far
It's so bad when it comes to personal injuries and finding hair in my food
but found some really good new things to eat in 7-eleven, so
I'm, pretty happy