Posted on 03/11/2021 7:03:22 AM PST by mylife
Following Japan’s “paper tiger sandwich” incident, we went out and bought every sandwich we could find to investigate.
It’s impossible not to feel the draw of the snack food and pastry aisles on a trip into a Japanese convenience store, but they also have plenty of tasty, sensible meal options too. Any convenience store in the country has a shelf of quality pre-made sandwiches, and there are so many different varieties that sometimes it can be hard to choose.
Of course, you could sidestep that decision by just buying every type of sandwich for sale, but that’d be pretty crazy, right? Who’s a big enough nutcase to do that?
Oh, that’s right, we are.
For our maxed-out sandwich run, we hit up our local branches of 7-Eleven, Family Mart, and Lawson, Japan’s big-three convenience store chains, and bought one of every kind of regular store-brand sandwich they had sale that day. While we might have missed out on one or two varieties that were sold out when we stopped by, we came home with 25 different sandwiches, so let’s take a look at them, starting with the ones we got from 7-Eleven.
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tonkatsu bento box please
Next week:
GAS STATION SUSHI!............................
Oddly the Japanese adore this stuff
Japanese are pretty picky when it comes to food, so I would trust these sandwiches. Gas station sushi, not so much..............
Japanese convenience store and gas station food is just next level stuff. Nothing at all like the US.
I think the last time I ate a prepackaged sandwich from a machine was in a Navy barracks in 1980.
You sould get little tins of heated ravioli and vienna weenies too!
Keep in mind that the Japanese sense of what is tasty is different. Too much meat, a phrase never heard in the USA, is a fundamental in Japan.
When Pizza shops started opening there, with American franchises popping up, the Japanese were somewhat cool. After some marketing surveys, it was determined that the American recipes called for more meat than desired by the average Nihonjin. Once corrections were made, pizzas took off in popularity.
Same thing with the All You Can Eat buffets. Often called ‘Viking’ in Japan, even though they exist, they are not taken advantage of, as in the USA. Maybe you will see someone go back for a second portion but it will be a small portion on a small plate. A third portion will earn you the ignoble title of ‘Batta Kusai’, One who stinks of butter, a term for those who have adopted western ways.
Yum.
Some truly disgusting sandwiches at the link..
Nice change from a regular hamburger.
They also hate when you don’t eat it all...
‘you don’t waste! you don’t waste!’
I love bahn mi! SOOOO Goood!
Yes, right?
Made the mistake of ordering bahn mi and a bowl of Pho tai nam, I barely managed to eat it all.
It was like $6.50
OMG!! how do they stay so skinny?
I’ve had these over there many times. Cheap and tasty. So worth it.
Shabu shabu is kind of like all you can eat. So amazing also.
Love when they spread the pate on there like mayo...
Fresh baked fresh bread..-
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