Our 10 Favorite Convenient Store Snacks
Looking for a convenient store snack can be daunting. There’s a lot to choose from, and between the occasional lost-in-translation names/descriptions, weird packaging, and the vastness of options, you may find yourself sad and confused. Don’t be. Here are ten perfect options.
1. Huang Fei Hong Spicy Peanuts
Price: RMB 6.80
What is it: Peanuts with Sichuan peppers and mala.
Why we love it: The mix of spice and peanuts, irresistible.
2. Dried Seaweed Snack
Price: RMB 16.80 (8 pks)
What is it: Impossibly thin squares of dried seaweed.
Why we love it: It’s a little bit funky, but the salty, ocean-y flavor is refreshing and never filling, even if you eat, like, 20 bags of it.
3. Prawn Crackers
Price: RMB 11
What is it: Shrimp flavored chip things.
Why we love it: Prawn crackers fall right in the Goldilocks zone of excitingly strange, without being too weird to eat.
4. Tea Eggs
Price: RMB 2
What is it: Eggs hard-boiled in tea for 10000000 hours (just a guess)
Why we love it: Perfect for lazy people who don’t want to think about how/what/when to eat.
5. Sushi Triangles
Price: RMB 3.30
What is it: Rice triangles wrapped in seaweed with various fillings, often fish.
Why we love it: Convenient stores and sushi are not, at first blush, a great pairing. But these triangles make such an easy, convenient semi-meal on-the-go that it’s hard to avoid them.
6. Pocky
Price: RMB 6.80
What is it: Heavenly sticks of biscuit-like material dipped into various sugary goo.
Why we love it: BECAUSE IT’S POCKY, DUH.
7. Cut apples (Family Mart)
Price: RMB 4.30
What is it: Perfectly-sliced apples in a little plastic bag.
Why we love it: Because everyone loves apples but no one wants to bite into an actual full apple.
8. Ice Cream
Price: RMB 3-16
What is it: Dairy? Chocolate? Delicious synthetic goo? We’re too scared to ask.
Why we love it: Because… ice cream.
9. Bonumee Gummi Sour Hearts
Price: RMB 11.90
What is it: Sugar and ground-up horse hooves (probably)
Why we love it: Unbearably sweet, in the best possible way.
10. Asahi
Price: RMB 9
What is it: Beer.
Why we love it: Ok, it’s not a snack. You got us. But hey, skip a snack and just walk around drinking a beer. Why not. It’s pretty filling and will probably improve your mood a lot more than a bag of peanuts would.
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