Eating at 7-Eleven

[rooftopclown]

@jimipresley

I’ve never been to Britain or the US, but from what I’ve heard, the convenience store food is utter shit.

Texas 7-Elevens have the best Slurpees. Very nutritious!

[Andrew]

@jimipresley

I’m not sure what you lot are complaining about. I’ve never been to Britain or the US, but from what I’ve heard, the convenience store food is utter shit. In South Africa, there aren’t even any cornershops anymore, due to the fear of armed robbery. The only place you can get a rotten old snake and pygmy pie is a 24-hour petrol garage where the cashier sits behind two panes of bullet-proof glass.
The Taiwan 7-Elevens are ing brilliant.

I don’t really have an opinion on convenience store food in the UK, US, or South Africa, but this is a thread about convenience store food in Taiwan. The latter might even be relatively good compared to the former (to some people’s palates) but I think it’s a bit irrelevant - it’s still stuff like microwavable corn soup, so

I agree that they’re brilliant for things like paying bills and collecting online purchases, but I’m happy to leave the unappetizing-looking processed food options to locals and @MalcolmReynolds (here).

[FatKaz]

@jimipresley

I’m not sure what you lot are complaining about. I’ve never been to Britain or the US, but from what I’ve heard, the convenience store food is utter shit.

I can’t speak for the US, but what you’ve heard about convenience-store food in Britain is bang on. I always find it amusing to hear people say that 7-Eleven food in Taiwan is bad. Although I do agree that it’s not as good as the 7-Eleven food in Japan, which is really on another level.

[Poundsand]

Occasionally, a convenience store in the U.S. will have a pretty outstanding deli or taco stand in it, but generally the best you can hope for is a crappy roller dog. The one chain that seems to have ok-ish food is RaceTrack in the south east.

[gooner]

hot dogs? No offense but that’s the only food in Taiwan I wouldn’t eat. I mean, where I’m from hot dogs are made of all of the extra bits of the pig. The ears, tail, snout, etc. but in Taiwan, those are the main course. So makes you wonder, what do they put in the hot dogs???

[SuiGeneris]

@eCanada

even the egg salad is gone.

Still at all the 7s near me.

[knob]

The ciggies are good.

[DKaoshuing]

@Poundsand

Occasionally, a convenience store in the U.S. will have a pretty outstanding deli or taco stand in it, but generally the best you can hope for is a crappy roller dog. The one chain that seems to have ok-ish food is RaceTrack in the south east.

Buc-ee food in Texas is also good for a gas station. (They are much bigger though, the big ones have 80+ gas pumps)

[JMcNeill]

I’m not really sure you can classify Buc-ees as just a gas station.

[Charlie_Jack]

@BiggusDickus

They have a Thai style noodle dish with slices of pork on it. It’s not bad.

I just Googled that to see what it looked like. I’d seen that before in the nukeable chow section, but I wasn’t sure what was in it. I guess I’ll have to try that one.

@jimipresley

The Taiwan 7-Elevens are f***ing brilliant.

I like the 7-Elevens here, including the food. It’s plenty good enough for me.

I don’t know what convenience-store food is like in the US now, but the last time I was there (2001), in my experience it wasn’t anything to write home about.

[Andrew]

@gooner

hot dogs? No offense but that’s the only food in Taiwan I wouldn’t eat.

None taken. I’m not saying the hot dogs are high cuisine or anything, just that they’re okay once a month and more appetizing in my opinion than most of the other offerings.

@gooner

I mean, where I’m from hot dogs are made of all of the extra bits of the pig. The ears, tail, snout, etc. but in Taiwan, those are the main course. So makes you wonder, what do they put in the hot dogs???

So maybe in Taiwan they use the nice bits of the pig? The bits that aren’t ear, snout, or tail? That’s what I’m choosing to believe anyway.

[eCanada]

@SuiGeneris

Still at all the 7s near me

I’m jealous. I used to eat that for breakfast

[bingobango]

Hands down, the best premade meal I have tried in 711, and also one of the most scarce.

I occasionally take the effort to stop by multiple 7’s until I find one where this is in stock.

10/10

[The_Seeker]

@meishijia

Food in 7 Eleven used to be so good.

Last five years or so it has gone to shit.

Yes, it was great.
I use to love their Gōngbǎo jīdīng.
But as long as they have their breads, tea eggs and the frozen microwave spaghetti with meat sauce 7-Eleven is actually my life line for traveling Taiwan.
If you have a fish or seafood allergy, your only true options are the big fast-food restaurants (that have separate Fryers for fish) vegetarian, bring your own food or 7-Eleven.
Even asking a small restaurant to be careful while preparing your food can be risky. They don’t understand the significance of your problem.
Anyway, there were places I dared not travel to that I do now thanks to Seven.

[tango42]

Tell me that doesn’t look good and I will tell you it tastes worse than it looks.

Sauce or something to disguise The Taste is a requirement.

[izzy]

those are easy to make at home by the way.
I find Friday’s not appealing to begin with, let alone buy it at 711

[Hayashi]

Some years ago during a vacation trip to Taiwan, I was wandering some back streets in Kaohsiung looking for something to eat, and fortunately managed to find a Seven Eleven. (The only other nearby shops I could find were some hole-in-the-wall joints with indecipherable menus, no pictures, and elderly staff who looked like they spoke no English.) I got a braised chicken lunchbox. Not great, but not bad either. I also appreciated that the Seven Eleven provided a seating area where weary travelers such as myself could sit down and take a break.

Do they still sell that?

[tango42]

@Hayashi

Do they still sell that?

Don’t know if they still sell that same one but there is a huge selection maybe 20 or 30 different types.

[PeiHua-Connie]

They have that, like it. Price I think is higher now. When was the photo, price seems low.

[Hayashi]

Thanks for the confirmation! The photo was from about 2.5 years ago, during the blissful summer before COVID struck.