Konbini thread

Japanese convenience stores seem so much livelier.

>>17288011
this

I've been to every type of convenience store here except Lawson.

Family Mart > 7/11 > Lawson

I love 7-Eleven. It's a comfy store with tasty things in it even if it's not as good as the Japanese ones.

>>17288011
shut up weeb

>>17289199
anything but japanese 7eleven is shit.
>muh onigiris
>muh bentos
>muh huge selection of cup ramen
T_T

>>17289438
>you'll never live in glorious nippon and drink CC lemon
why even live?

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>>17289455
forgot pic

>>17289438
>>muh huge selection of cup ramen

U.S 7-Eleven has this too. At least the one in my old neighborhood did.

>>17289466
>tfw my country doesnt even have 7eleven
just kill me

>>17289519

My condolences.

>>17289438
>>17289455
Who are you quoting?

>>17289564
ehm..myself?

>>17289568
Why would you quote yourself?

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>>17289438
Too many muhs, bruh.

>>17289576
coz i'm quoting my unexpressed thoughts

>>17289123
This

>>17289600
Please express your thoughts without abusing the quoting function

>>17287970
Why is there a bicycle parked right in the middle of the street on a pedestrian crossing no less?

>>17289824
Because cyclists are inconsiderate law breakers 99% of the time (not even exaggerating).

Car drivers can be pretty bad too tough. Just stick the hazard lights on and everywhere is a short term parking space.

>>17288011
>>17287970
Are they also run by Indians?
>>17289844
>Because cyclists are inconsiderate law breakers 99% of the time (not even exaggerating).
Yeah this.

>>17289928
It has been about 3 years, but last time I was in Japan it was run by Japanese people.

>>17289631
but it's pretty convenient and easier, thanks to 4chan

>>17288011
wrong dumbass

>>17290093
Please do not bring your stupid non-/jp/ memes to /jp/, thank you.
The Japanese actually are rather friendly towards Indians as there has been quite a bit of trade between those countries, and a lot of historical cultural exchange as well. They are also not seen as economic or cultural imperialists like whites often are, even though most of them are there for technology-related work that a Japanese might have been able to do instead. They are wary of Pakistanis though, as most of them only know about that country from reports of terrorism.

>>17290548
You can believe what you want to, but, as I said, please keep that sort of trash on other boards. This is not /int/.

>>17290577
So can you, believe what you want.
Enjoy your fantasies, gaijin.

>>17289844
A fifth of people in Japan commute by bike. They aren't "bikers", they're just normal fucking people on their daily commute.

>>17290610
Care to share with us how you've come to be such an expert in Japanese culture?

>>17289459

>cold CC lemon

shit tier, warmed up mini CC lemons are the best. Especially when you're sick.

>>17290610
>>17290548
>>17290093
Actually there's a pretty well-established Indian community in Kansai of a bunch of importers and jewelers and stuff. They have several temples and organizations and have been there since the Meiji era. And since the 80s a lot of IT guys who worked for Japanese companies in have been moving to Tokyo from India. They have a pretty generous visa agreement for that purpose. I don't know if they're really friendly to Indians but I can't imagine there would be much trouble.

>>17290668
What? People who cycle = cyclists. And regardless of what their purpose is, the vast vast majority of them do not follow the law, including even the police.

>>17290926
by that logic someone who teaches=teacher

>>17290851
I'm a 7-11 boy and always will be

>>17291024
You sound oddly militant. 'Cyclist' is not a particularly heavy term, nor does it indicate a profession or way of life. It is simply someone who travels by bicycle.

Here are some relevant articles:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/tag/cyclists/

>>17291024
"Bikers" and "cyclists" don't have to have the same connotation everywhere. Bikers are often asses in the US, sure, but in Asia it's common and nobody sees any issue with it. That doesn't make them not bikers. It just means bikers over there are different from bikers over here. What's your issue?

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>>17290851
Man, Leon draws the cutest Reimu.

>>17288011
I wish everyone on this board would visit Japan at least once so that, if nothing else, they stop posting these effete and blatantly wrong observations. Fuck you.

I miss Lawson. Their sandwiches were tasty.

rip thread

>>17291583
But it was on page 1 with a post only six minutes before yours.

>>17291605
i was making reference to the apparent departure from the original topic

>>17291634
But that post six minutes before yours was on topic.

>>17291583
>>17291634
Welcome to the Jay.

Post jingles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm1DWpUe7V0

>>17289438
But 7-11 objectively has the best bentos, therefore making it the best conbini.

Ministop has the best hot food.

Lawson and Family Mart are for when you can't find either of those two.

And Yamazaki is just plain shit.

I'm gonna miss Japanese life.

Why do I have to leave in 20 days.

Whichever konbini has yakisoba pan I'm a fan of.
A couple more weeks until I can hear some jovial granny welcome me in again with an "irasshaimasseee~"

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Not otaku culture.

>>17292661
That's what he said. You must have been confused by his quoting someone who isn't here.

>>17293274
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8167036
Now it is.

I went to several Family Marts and 7/11s, but why are there no turkey sandwiches in Japan?

>>17293714
Turco-Japanese relations soured badly after the failed Mongol invasions of Japan, and never really got any better.

>>17292675
Work or study?

>>17293905
Study.

>>17295415
You're not going to miss Japanese life.

Family Mart > Lawson > Mini Stop > 7-Eleven > CircleK/Sunkus >>>>>>>>> Daily Yamazaki

Are konbinis really that big of a problem for foreigners?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0Ik8jAi-8

>>17298501
He's talking about supermarkets, not konbinis.

That said, he has autism.
Yeah, the music is annoying, but who cares, it's not like you live in the supermarket.

>>17298592
wrong video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEur4oNzJpA
the guy definetly have a thing for them

A Lawson, a 7/11 and a Family Mart magically appear in front of you along with 500円. The 500円 will disappear if you do not buy anything from either store in five minutes.

What do you buy?

You people do realize that the food sold at Japanese convenience stores are the same quality as the shitty pizza and hot dogs they sell at 7/11s in bugerstan right?

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>>17287970
Does anyone have experience in japan konbini?

>>17300271
No, I want to have a konbini experience in Japan.

I want to become the Konbini Otaku.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziX1oQRiA3w

>>17289123
FAMI FAMI FAMI MY FAMI FAMILY MART

>>17300432
I was waiting for this one.

>>17300309
I ask for your prayers as I plan my Konbini Adventure.

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>>17300432
>mfw the birthing hate in Japan is so low that even they are making jokes about japs trying to get sex

https://youtu.be/1u3P0G5-BZY

>>17300432
are you trying to tell me this song isn't about speedrunning?

>>17295832
who are you to decide

>>17301824
he is Tenno
have respect please

>>17295415
What and where?

>>17300213
I go to a random store, pick up a random 500 yen product and take it to cashier. He will say「５００円になります」. I will pick up the 500 yen he turned into and put the product back. I now have 1000 yen. After that, I go to one of the two remaining stores and pick up 1000 yen worth of products and take them to the cashier. He will say 「１０００円になります」, I pick up that 1000 yen and put the products back. I now have 2000 yen. I then go to the last remaining store and buy 2000 yen worth of Nerunerunerune.

>>17300213

just go to 7/11 and quietly buy a nikkuman. I will eat it in a park on a bench, enjoying the sights and sounds.

tru comfy

>>17300213
I buy one of those really big bottles of tea and a rice ball, if there's enough money left over for one.

Are prices in konbinis actually good? As in, are they as competitive as something like an american Costco?

>>17303667
>are prices in a convenience store from a nation with low goods consumption competitive with those in a fuckhuge wholesale store from a nation with very high goods consumption

Why the fuck would you even entertain this question?

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>>17303649
>>17303586
>>17303282
OK, great. Thanks for answering. I especially like the wizard that exploited my world's broken physics.

I am traveling to Japan for winter comiket and will eat a meal of nikuman, rice ball, nerunerune and bottled tea. I have a feeling I am going to throw this up if I eat it since I can't eat sweet candy but I will take pictures regardless. Please Wish me luck!

Am I the only Sunkus fan here?

>>17300260
You do realize you obviously have no idea what you're talking about and have never been to Japan let alone set foot in their convenience stores right?

but can I walk into one of these establishments and get a 40 in a wrap, some scratch-offs, and a pack of menthols?

us party store > japan

>>17305193
Sorry Tyrone, Japan isn't Camden.

>>17305197

>japan will never play edward40hands

>>17305206
Thank god the rest of the world besides kekistan doesn't either.

>>17305210
Canadians play Edward1.18Lhands

>>17305197
What is one cup sake, Alex?

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Friendly reminder that Japan is a 3rd world shit hole when it come to actually working there.

Look at these faggots. Hurr durr let's do a photoshoot for our startup outside at a table! Meanwhile they work until midnight every night and on the weekends.

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>>17305601
It's called "Japan Inc." for a reason.

When was the last time you had to wear matching t-shirts and parade outside with your coworkers?

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>>17305605
Japanese people don't smile because they are happy. They smile because they have to.

>>17305601
Joke's on you, Japan's startup scene practically doesn't exist. That's mostly a Silicon Valley thing. You're right about the hours, still, but for the wrong reasons.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/

>>17305601
>>17305605
>>17305627
How is this shit anyway relevant to Konbinis? We're here to talk about our convenience not their inconvenience.

>>17305601
lol at unqualified EOPs that want to work in Japan

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>>17305691
I'm trying to prevent OP from ruining his life by moving to Japan. Japan is not a comfy place, but many people seem to think so.

when you buy a hot drink and a cold drink along with cigarette the cute girl at lawson puts the cigs between the hot and cold drink to keep the hot drink from warming the cold drink..

in america the redarded nigger wouldnt be able to handle opening a plastic bag.

really makes me think.

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>>17305691
>>17305716
actually the second poster, not necessarily OP

might be too late for OP

>>17305716
>>17305720
What if he's coming from somewhere even less comfier? Hell, the meme that the West is some freeloader socialist paradise is rapidly disappearing.

>>17305716
It's actually fine if you have a real job and don't go there to be an indentured English teacher. Preferably you get transferred there by the company you already work for. The corporate culture is pretty fucky but when you have actual value and the company wants you for that rather than your seniority you pretty much can do whatever you want within reason and then quit and move back to the west when you get tired of being a foreigner in a country where even returning emigrants have trouble fitting in.

What happened to /jp/? This thread is full of low tier bants, basic hate, and general trash. Reads like /pol/, /bant/ or any of the other trash boards.

>>17307663
Don't kid yourself, it's been this way since 2011.

>>17305122
Sunkus had the best cheese tarts, the sole purpose of their existence. But now if you can actually find a Sunkus the cheese tarts are just replaced with crap from Famima since they got bought out. Sucks. At least at my Sunkus though, the hot food was left out so long it became so hard it was inedible. Now it turned into a Famima and despite the staff being exactly the same, the hot food never has any problems anymore. God bless Famichiki.

>>17305601
What. Do you work here? My job isn't bad at all, unless you're referring to english teaching jobs or something.

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>>17287970
It's the first time in Japan. I was in Lawson, 7-11, Seico Mart, Family Mart and sun kus.

There's a Konbini at every corner, even same konbinis next to each other. Plus vending machines I wish Germany had these too.

My daily routines is
-buy a drink from a vending machine
-get a snack for breakfast and another drink from a konbini
-buy a drink from a vending machine
-eat something nice
-buy a drink from a vending machine
-maybe buy something sweet

>>17305231
underrated post

I don't recommend 711, it's so called the most, the
worst "Black(Dark) company" in covinis.

>>17321125
but they have the best onigiri tho

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>go to Japan
>check out konbini
>find cheap 100 yen pudding
>plain vanilla pudding with caramel sauce
>it's really fucking good, best pudding I ever had
>blown away by how good it is
>it's like I never had real pudding until then
>check out other konbinis
>they all have cheap pudding like this
>all of it delicious
>vacation ends, back in home country (Netherlands)
>scour every supermarket for plain vanilla pudding with caramel sauce, the most basic type of pudding
>it's fucking nowhere
>one brand has a near-monopoly on pudding, and it's all disgusting
>they don't even have the most basic pudding combo, only vanilla with some fucking berry sauce
>try to make my own
>it's actually really difficult, making caramel takes legit skill
End this torment already. Why does this place suck so much. It took me 25 years to discover what pudding actually means, and now it's out of my reach.

>>17323217
Is Japanese pudding just normal flan/custard?

>>17323217
You have to go back..(to Japan)

>>17305719

I've also had them ask if I want the hot drink in a separate bag or want to carry it with me. It's the little things.

there's only a few 711s near my place and they all have shit alcohol stock. it is infuriating.

never living this far from a station again. im pissed my dudes

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>>17325245
you're in the inaka?

>>17325339
nah, i live in tokyo. out in suginami-ku.

my place is just in a weird spot. about 15m out from the station.

>>17325346
Yeah that must be a weird spot. I live down in Setagaya.

a/s/(suginami)?

>>17325359
oh nice. there are some nice spots down there.

im a mid 20s dude.

are you a cute girl?

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>>17325368
Straight white male. Let's not meet.

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Also I'm a lot older than you
>>17325368

>>17323217
who are you quoting?

>>17323217
Are you trying to make wet caramel (cook with added water and then boil it off) or dry caramel (directly browning the sugar in the pan)? Try both, dry caramel can be more difficult but it certainly isn't impossible. I've made both a few times, it just takes a bit of practice.

>>17323217
>>one brand has a near-monopoly on pudding, and it's all disgusting
I'm guessing you mean Mona? They actually had a creme brulee variant for a while, which despite the name used soft caramel, so in reality it was just a big creme caramel. That one tasted pretty good, a shame it was a limited edition.