I'm just passing through. I'm on my way to the Philippines for the first time ever really excited about that

But I do have like a 10 hour layover here in Taipei

So I figured I go get something to eat outside of the airport and a lot of you guys been messaging me asking me to

Kind of explore the the 7-elevens scene in Taiwan because unlike the u.s.

Here, 7-11s are like the greatest thing you can buy your train ticket, some of them

You can do your laundry and a lot of people here actually go to 7-eleven for breakfast lunch and dinner

Guess which one of those appeals to me the most anyway?

I didn't want to go all the way into Taipei

So I found one of the biggest 7-elevens and TaoYuan sitting right near the airport

So I'm gonna go and let's go eat out of local 7-eleven

Yeah

All right

if anybody ever told me that I would specifically leave an airport just to go eat out a

7/11 I would never believe it, but here I am and I'm actually really really excited

How was another country with a ton of motorbikes and?

Again, I think I'm gonna have to go this like I mentioned is one of the biggest and supposedly one of the prettiest seventy 11s

In TaoYuan City gorgeous big windows looks very bright inside you get these like individual sort of booths

I can already smell something that's fried in there, and it smells good

this place

This is beautiful

Oh

Oh really so this is like slightly carbonated coffee

I never had she said it should taste like dark beer I never had dark beer before but

Carbonated coffee slightly carbon interesting. Oh, thank you so nice here um

All right, let me show you guys around

Somebody lemon up Korres is known for their snacks, and they have a ton of it

So this is like a bunch of Japanese snacks here like stationary look at this. This is like so interesting

They got they got Moochie stuff here you

Can fly computer games here of course a lot of Hello Kitty stuff, did you know she's not a cat

Oh, I think I need this. This is this is a soup base for hotpot. I might need to take this home check it out

Vacuum packed rice, you know what's great about this is that look at this you can stack it like books

You're so your rice is nice and organized and just looks neater, and this this is one of my all-time favorite aisles

They're instant noodle. I'll check it out look at this. They're like dozens of types of instant noodles here and this

Is my favorite one? We are definitely eating this today? I love to drink selection they have here

I mean look at this this is all my juice and different types of milk tea strawberry milk tea green tea lemon tea like

Asparagus milk tea. I think I'm gonna stay away from this little bit also

I don't know what it is, but drinking tea on out of a paper box. It just makes it taste better and dr.

Milker was that like dr. Peppers Asian cousin besides that salad fruit salad you can buy mushrooms here eggs fruit

We got all sorts of bento boxes pie one sausage over fried rice. This is ribs over rice pork belly over rice

I mean the selection is just overwhelming and of course. There's the hot food items. We got tea eggs here

I must get that fish tofu here being boiled

They don't have anything here yet because we're so early

But I really hope we can try one of these things out because this will go great on top of noodles

Then you got like a case just for for hot drinks

You got hot chocolate lattes and hot milk teas that's all here a case for buns BAM blue pork, bun Chacho

Bun the roast pork, bun okay all this looking at you know you know it's making me really hungry, so I'm gonna

I'm gonna get a few things. I know it's just breakfast, but I think I'm gonna need one of these brush

Sweet potatoes the bread it says 現烤直送 so I asked them and apparently every day the bread is

Freshly baked and delivered here. They said this is a really popular item. This guy looks pretty good and

Chocolate QQ balls. QQ is hollow means really bouncy really chewy, so this is gonna

Be like like mochi chocolate buds. I'll take a hot drink

formosa milk tea oh

Yeah, it's really hot in Taiwan drink some milk tea pork bun bamboo, bun

She's well a roll you for sure need a tea egg from a 7-eleven the boil food is still being boiled

We'll come back to that we need some bento. I'm going for this. This is a chicken leg

I saw earlier that look pretty good and whenever I see beef noodle soup. I can't pass up, ooh

Soft-boiled eggs

Sure, you know what?

I'll try this I'm thinking this is really healthy right and one last thing

I got to get my favorite ramen, and I'm gonna go for the spicy version of the beef so yeah

This will be breakfast, but I don't think this is all gonna fit into that little tray also that bubble tea here

You can order bubble tea at a Taiwan 7-Eleven. That's what I'm gonna do. Look at this. This is my meal

I can't wait to get started. We haven't even got to dessert yet

All right breakfast is served

This is crazy my first thing. I need I need to try this beef noodle soup. The employees here really recommended it also

It's cool because it's half

Lean needs and a half beef tendon. That's like my favorite racial alright. Let's go heat this up. What's really convenient about

This is that they tell you exactly

Which button to push when you put this into the microwave so here it says push zero this goes in and then there you go

It's like zero you push the button and you forget about it

That's it look at this this smells incredible think it as broth

The noodles look very nice not at all soggy look at this giant piece of beef here oh

You can see the tendon running through it like a delicious roadmap for like a premade in you don't dish this looks fantastic

I didn't expect this much broth look at this gorgeous beef soup. I can smell the soy sauce flavor

I'm telling you guys right now

But if you put this in a regular bow and served it to me at a restaurant

I would never even guess that this was microwaved the soup itself

We've got such a rich beefy flavor it's a bit oily a bit spicy. It's just incredibly

hmm

Incredibly beefy and look at these noodles. You're not too wide. They're moderately thick and they don't feel like they're they're soggy at all

Couple of things this broth itself

it's not really penetrating the noodles because the noodles are a bit thick but like I mentioned before I

would never in a million years after tasting these noodles would ever think that I'd

Microwaved it something just tastes like good quality rules. They're chewy. They're elasticy and I think if you eat it with the soup

That is pretty darn good. All right the ultimate test the beef is self

I'm just really impressed by this

The beef is now ridiculously tender, but it tastes like a good cut of beef with nice tendon and look at this big piece

right here

Well, dive you those tinder you just seen this right now the thicker cut of beef ridiculously tender superbly beef

You know this piece of tender here

I'm shocked that a

250 microwave bowl of noodles who can taste as good right nowa this needs this thing needs a tea egg look at that delicious

pattern right there

No look at that all that flavors soaked into the yolk already its he eggs and beat me little suits

They just belong together they do I like to put my yolk in the soup kind of mix a little bit scoop up some

Beef broth in that egg. Oh

Guys you need to come here and try this beef noodle soup, and you know what I'm talking about unbelievable. Oh just out of something

This broth is way too. Good to not have a bun dipped into it

I think this is the regular pork, bun the bun so filling racial is not bad

Wow

Wow, this is awesome. Oh this punch you Lucius you can tell by my surprise. I don't think it's gonna be that good

But this is excellent you guys see that the chilies in here this thing is spicy its meaty

I thought maybe like like the Dolby little too much, and this would be ask lyrical. Oh, man. I was wrong hmm

They're just for us to taste after it goes beef dipping. Oh

Wow I could eat no kidding ten more of these and be so happy with my life the happiness to life guys

It's done inside a pork, bun. I'm so

Blown away. By how good this is oh my goodness

Mmm. Okay. I'm just like being blown away left and right. I was blown away by the baby beef noodle soup

I've blown away by dish. Oh good

Let's not somebody else here jasmiyah try this

How good is that?

Started in the most the place I had in America. It's not just the most awesome thing

Yeah, let's try the other bun. This is the bamboo buns mmm a little bit of crunch on the bamboo

I don't think is as good as the other one because it lacks a little spice

but flavor-wise

This is on part again. Dip it in the broth

Wow

We really get that nice bamboo flavor in this, bun mmm so good

oh

Is this wipe and ellos bamboo so much are we are we missing out next is one of their freshly baked breads and this one?

Look kind looks like what you find in a Chinese bakery, and you see some ham scallions

sesame

That's good, but after like two incredible bunch these pails have been in comparison

A little sweet a little skanky a little hammy nice and shops

but those buns were incredible all right next let's change the pace a little bit and

Let's go heat up our bento box

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Can't wait, so this is marinated chicken leg with pork belly that oh that chicken leg

That's really marinated look at this and this is the pork belly right here big ol slice of pork all right?

I gotta try this marinated chicken. Leg I

Just took a big ol bite mmm

Mmm. Not, try at all. It is incredibly flavorful. It's a soy sauce based marinade the chicken itself is tender

It's not really juicy but the flavor has penetrated all of this in a pork belly a little

Sweet, oh really garlicky. I thought this was carrots and radish. It's not it's actually carrots and bamboo

This is nice because the veggies little crunchy. I think all the items here

Individually are really flavorful my problem with this dish is that there's not enough sauce to kind of help you eat the rice because look

At this you get you get a lot of rice right the veggie is not very saucy so in Chinese terms

It's not it's not very chef on war it doesn't pair well with a lot of rice

I think if they give this a lot more sauce this would be a great mental box

I mean, it's a good mental box, but the sauce and meat to rice ratio is a bit off

next up

my favorite instant noodles

You can't really find these instant noodles in the US because they actually have real big chunks of beef in here

But I really

Wish they sell this in the US because this this is like one of the best instant girls out there for instant you know tech

This out they have something that pulls out

And then on there as you can cook your instant noodles

This is what I love about these noodles. This is a pouch full of just gravy and chunks of beef

I mean you can feel big chunks of beef just just sitting in here, so you add

the seasoning oil and then this

This actually kind of freaked me out when I first did it because look at it

It kind of looks a little off because the fat kind of solidified a little bit, but don't be afraid

This is delicious then go here

Do they have the water and make sure you give this enough water because this broth is awesome. This is great

This is all sorts of corn radish different types of tofu mushrooms soaked in broth

And I'm gonna add this inside my instant noodles

This is the old dough for oil tofu one of my favorites and a piece of radish fishcake

Mushroom more fish cake some fish ball boom there we go

I could smell the spice look at all the chilies in here in every strand of noodles

It's just covered in the chili look at this

Big old chunks of beef I mean this way you can obviously tell it's instant noodles

But I mean what have you ever seen instant noodles with like this, and this is some of the extras I got

Let's jazz this noodle up

This is instant noodles accessorized. I'm just gonna add like the broth in here because that's good broth first of all

That's good broth for instant noodles I

Love oil tofu

It's got such a nice chewy texture on the outside and then just tender

Tofu on the inside you take that dip it in some broth Oh

Fish ball

Goes nice and bouncy then go fish cake. Ooh!

There's something inside there's like some rice noodles, and I think maybe a little pork inside of this.Dip it in some broth

Oh

Crazy, this is like a fishcake dumpling

Let's say Oh since it's a go without seafood cake or some caviar inside it gives it a nice little crunch

Yes, feels a little white spots. Those are fish eggs. Radish is good, big ol mushroom

Favorite instant noodles in Taiwan no joke up

Usually when you buy instant noodles out from a store you have to go back home

or go back to the market. You can't top it with all this great stuff

Something I forgot

Soft-boiled eggs

I am actually a little little terrified of this. What is this juice?! And I'm gonna. I'm gonna open this up and see oh