117 episodes
Conbini Boys Conbini Boys 🐣🍗
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- Society & Culture
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4.9 • 12 Ratings
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Mike and Matt dive into their passion - Japan’s convenience stores, known as conbini. From canned coffee to fried chicken to seasonal one-offs, we’ll be hitting you with the biggest news across the conbini landscape.
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Shrinkflation? Skimpflation?
Back after a long break!
In this week’s episode we discuss:
🐥 Shrunken quantities and skimped qualities
🐥 Daily Yamazaki’s great UI renewal
🐥 The legend of Egashira 2:50
🐥 Ever increasing “sticks” of stuff
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Taking a Dip in the Oden Tank
In this week’s episode we discuss:
🐥 Oden and its mysteries
🐥 Tomato lemonade
🐥 Butter ramen
🐥 Cheese and cod fish sticks
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Beat the Heat with Daily Yamazaki
In this week’s episode we discuss:
🐥 Daily Yamazaki’s plan to cure natsubate
🐥 How never to eat a Famichiki
🐥 Pretzels
🐥 The return of Pierre Hermes
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Natsu Matsuri
In this week’s episode we discuss:
🐥 Summer Festivals (Natsu Matsuri) in Japan (and at Ministop)
🐥 An (abnormally?) large Famichiki
🐥 The ongoing evolution of the Pizza Chip flavor
🐥 An unreal banana bread offering from Daily Yamazaki
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Natto Apocalypse at FamilyMart
In this week’s episode we discuss:
🐥 Natto Day at FamilyMart
🐥 Fish nuggets at Lawson
🐥 Flavorless? Candy
🐥 Double cheesecake at Lawson
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Black Thunder!
In this week’s episode we discuss:
🐥 Black Thunder - one of Japan’s greatest chocolate snacks
🐥 Mini-chikis?
🐥 A rare dual winner/loser out of Daily Yamazaki
🐥 Yet another extraordinary dessert from Lawson
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Customer Reviews
An oasis in a desert of the sub-par conbini product review for English speakers podcast space
I was searching the web until my fingers bled one evening with the question “What is a drinkable Pablo cheese tart and where can I buy multiple” when I happened upon this podcast. What a relief
A convenient truth
A podcast that celebrates the little things in Japanese corners. Keep up with the latest chiki coverage, get your haul rated, and discover the best and worst okashi
The Go-To Podcast for Conbini Love & Humor
You’ll be eager to get to a conbini after listening to this podcast! If you’re living outside of Japan, after listening to these episodes, you will be in-the-know about what you can do and what you can buy at a conbini, to make the most of your visit.
Mike and Matt share the latest conbini news and product line-up, detailed analysis, reporting from the “gemba” (where the action takes place), and host tournaments for popular conbini products.
Warning: You might want to avoid listening to this in public places, because you won’t get through even a couple minutes without breaking into laughter!
Not only do they have a great sense of humor, they also have command of sophisticated vocabulary and language skills. You could almost see and taste the chiki that they’re describing!
Mike and Matt — Thank you for starting a great show! It definitely brightens up the day and I look forward to the upcoming episodes!
コンビニを熱く面白く語るpodcast…笑いが止まりません！
食べ物の味や見た目が想像できてしまう素晴らしい説明で、(英語で)「美味しい」「美味しそう」くらいしか言えない私には表現方法の勉強になります。イディオムやボキャブラリーも豊富で英語学習にも良いはず！
トーナメントや現場からのレポートなど、企画やコーナーも面白いコンテンツが満載。まさにこういうpodcastを待っていました！