![]() Just peel back the corner of the soft-plastic lid, stick it in the microwave for 50 seconds, and it’s ready to eat. Our third, and final, mackerel recommendation comes from Takashi, whose go-to pick is a straight-up grilled mackerel filet. Salt-grilled mackerel (321 yen) – Recommended by Takashi Harada Other brands’ fish can sometimes be dry and flakey, but 7-Eleven’s is meaty and juicy, and in all the years he’s been buying it, the chain has never given him a can with poor-quality fish inside.Ĥ. Similar to Go’s thorough taste-testing of yomogi sweets, Seiji has eaten canned mackerel from a number of different companies, but 7-Eleven’s, which uses mackerel caught off the coast of Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, is far and away the best, he says. Canned simmered mackerel (192 yen) – Recommended by Seiji NakazawaĬoming to our second saba selection, canned mackerel has been surging in popularity in recent years in Japan, with singles and families alike discovering that keeping a stock of them in your kitchen cabinet makes for a healthy and satisfying centerpiece to pair with white rice and a quick side dish or two such as a salad or bowl of miso soup. When the heat and humidity are sapping his appetite, but he knows he still needs to get some protein and other nutrients, this is a quick and tasty fix that won’t leave him feeling sluggish or bloated, and the citrussy ponzu seasoning has a revitalizing effect on a sweltering summer day.ģ. Sato is deeply fond of this mackerel (or “saba,” to use the Japanese name for the fish) dish in summer. ![]() Going from something that’s “healthy for sweets” to just plain “healthy,” Mr. Mackerel with grated radish and ponzu (268 yen) – Recommended by Mr. ![]() Plus, at just 128 calories, Go doesn’t have to feel that guilty when he munches on one of these sweet treats at breakfast time.Ģ. Go is a big fan of yomogi sweets, regularly sampling the ones from all the major supermarket and convenience store chains, but 7-Eleven’s remains the best and most flavorful one out there in his opinion. Kusamochi is a kind of rice flower dumpling made with yomogi (mugwort), which gives its flavor a sophisticated herbal underpinning that compliments the Hokkaido-grown sweet red bean filling 7-Eleven uses. Kusamochi (140 yen ) – Recommended by Go Hatori Although 7-Eleven Day isn’t an official holiday (at least not yet), we decided to celebrate it anyway by asking several SoraNews24’s most combini-savvy reporters for their recommendations for delicious 7-Elven Japan items that might be flying under other shoppers’ radars, and they came back with the following list of seven items that could use more love, because it’s not possible for our reporters to love them any more than they already do.ġ. We’re pretty much always plotting what to get on our next Japanese convenience store run, but especially so on July 11, or 7-11, when we can’t stop thinking about 7-Eleven. And because it’s a Japanese convenience store, our list has everything from desserts to fish.
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