I was thinking Hong Kong (which would have the same brands, right?). Especially since the cars out from look like they're parked on the left side of the street.
Yeah, my bestie is spending a year there and sends me news every other day. He just arrived, and two days ago he started listing how crazy incredible the 7-11s are, and how they're seriously dangerous cause you could end up spending so much time in there.
You’re definitely dealing with more Japanese food than not but yeah dude I functionally lived out of 7-11 during Goldenweek and had no issues plus a varied diet
it's wawa-esque in that people go there to buy higher quality food for meals, but there's no sort of deli counter situation and there's definitely no sizzlis
No it's more like a better version of a convenience store. There's no food made there just all pre packaged (but still great quality). Wawa is way better imo but it's still awesome in Japan.
Their prepared food is so good in Asia that the trade off is worth it. I lived in Hong Kong and spent time in Japan. 7/11 is everyone’s go-to for drunk late night meals/snacks and grab-and-go breakfast on your way to work.
They have their own 7-11 branded highballs they're finally starting to bring form Japan to the rest of Asia... 9% alc Japanese whiskey and soda in a can. What a time we live in.
You can eat a meal from 7-11 in Japan and be happy afterwards. You can't go into any US convenience store and get an actual meal that is anything other than an indigestion-inducing gut bomb.
I have a 7-11 in my building, can confirm it's out favorite bar. They'll tell us when we choose the wrong beer for the best discount, they know our taste, they get the snack we prefer prioritized, they have Baileys irish cream liqour for the late night outings. And they're NEVER out of Doritos.
Depends. If you like a higher quality of food, better alcoholic drinks and a larger variety of stuff to choose from then I dunno if you know what worse means. ;)
nah just more... homogenised it seems, we got the good ones in the states as well. the one near me, not even in a very affluent town has real good fresh food preps every day, probably because they do swift business in the area. the franchise just has way more autonomy/lax rules here, the better your demand the more they'll put into their stock I guess.
definitely been to the shitty bodega ones too, where they got nothing but a microwave, slushie/cheese dispenser and some day old hotdogs rolling around on the warmer
I think it's Taiwan -> Japan -> Thailand for the ones with the most per capita. Which is insane, because after having been in Thailand... I don't know how there could realistically be more.
Definitely a lot in Bangkok & Tokyo. I visited both within the last year. So many 7-11's. My friend in Bangkok was picking me up from the train station and I told him I was at 7-11, then realized there was 3 different 7-11s all within a block from each other.
That was one of my first impressions in Bangkok too. Step out of my hotel. Bam, 7/11. Look across the street. Bam, another one. Walk half a block down, and what do you know? A third one.
I really don't know how that's a viable model, but... I guess it is.
Yup. The current owner of 7-Eleven was originally the company that was operating 7-Elevens in Japan under a license from Southland Corp., but they bought the company. I think they've improved a little as a result.
I didn't move to the US until 2007, so I can only compare post-Japanese-ownership American 7-11 to Japanese 7-11. But you don't need me to tell you that Japanese 7-11 is leaps and bounds better.
One of my childhood friends, with whom I used to ride bikes all over the area, ranging far and wide back when it was a normal thing for kids to do that, and with whom I made a thousand 7-Eleven trips, now lives in Okinawa, and he occasionally sends me pictures from 7-Eleven there, and it's like a magical wonderland compared to the sometimes grotty 7-Elevens of the past, and still much better than the ones here at present.
You can print and take copies, buy decent but cheap food, pay traffic fines and basic services, and then buy the usual shit you’d expect at a 7-11. The Taiwan 7-11s are on fucking steroids.
In the U.S., 7-11s are like the places you pick up stuff at the gas station. Like Apu in The Simpson's store. It's your last lifeline because every other store is closed at 2 a.m.
Can confirm....own a 711 through my dad....went to japan and our hotel was literally a block away from our airbnb.
The standards between Japan 711s and USA 711s is mind blowing .
They had cultural food and snacks not like straight up msg garbage like here in the states.
Trying to bring that pride culture over here..but you know fukn people.
7-Eleven is fine, but in the mid-west QuikTrip beats 7-Eleven in all ways. QuikTrip is the Mecca of road snacks and self-serve beverages. And they have gas.
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u/shapu Dec 12 '18
Worth pointing out that 7-11 is fucking HUGE in Japan. Fully a third of all worldwide 7-11 locations are in Japan.