Mothers Day is coming up soon and the convenience stores are hoping people will order gifts through them for the occasion. I didn’t see anything in store to buy, but Lawson had their catalog out to encourage people to order.
Apart from gifts, custard pudding and crepes seem to be the standard in this weeks Conbini Monday. Looks like a market that is growing.
I took a few photos of the Yokote convenience store on my recent visit to Akita-ken. The photos in the store I had on my iPhone and have shown some here. The...
I tried this new Dora Pudding どらぷりん today that I picked up at the Family Mart. This is a mix between a dorayaki, azuki bean filled pancake, and purin, custard...
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Chibi Maruko chan has center stage at Lawson right now, with a big ‘Nostalgia’ promotion. Time to get down to your local conbini and pick up some...
It is often talked about by visitors how clean and how honest they find the everyday Japanese. Business can get a bit murky sometimes, but out on the street...
There are often mini festivals on in Japan around the station area. This one was a couple of days ago, but I forgot to put the pictures up. I was passing by on...
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I love the custard puddings. The taste and texture have not been matched by anything that is mass produced in Oz. Worth a trip back to Japan for those alone……and takoyaki perhaps. Combini Monday makes my week..Ta
This is so cute!
That’s so cool and useful that they print out the calorie count on the prepared bento.
Tea crepe, ‘d like to taste one.
Thanks, you gave me another couple of ideas.
Looks like a nice selection of gifts to choose from. Anything associated w/Rilakkuma is a must buy.
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Conbini Monday Wk47, Japan Conbini Monday http://bit.ly/cwgjDf Another great selection of products. Especially w/Rilakkuma in charge. Seeing my parents are dead and my in laws also can’t buy for those occasions. But if you were to send a selection of those products my way. I would gladly give everyone my honest to goodness taste test review. 🙂 Rilakkuma is even here to help me. 🙂
Whens the next conbini box coming up?
Another wonderful Conbini Monday Chapter to add to all the other ones. Helps start a monday.
The photos are just great! The chocolate wafers are quite cheap on its size, 180 Yen? here the chocolate wafers on the same kind somewhat costs about 150 Php / 305 Yen. And Rilakkuma really helps a lot for mothers day 😀 If only she is available here in my country :0
Looks delicious as always!!!