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Apr 21, 2010

The Asia Trip: 7-Eleven Taiwan

7-Eleven Taiwan at Taipei Main Station
While I was in Taiwan, I came across many a 7-Eleven so I thought I'd point out some interesting differences in the food served there.

First off, unlike Japan, you can still get Slurpies in Taiwan. That's right the Japanese get gyped! No Slurpies! How do they live?!
7-Eleven Taiwan Tea Eggs and Hot Dogs
Second, hot dogs are quite popular.  When I went to the the night markets, they had huge (like over a foot long!  See below.) sausages and corn dogs as well, all cooked right in front of you in little stalls.  The ones at 7-Eleven are more normal though.  If you look closely, you'll see that Lebron endorses hot dogs in Taiwan.  To the left of that is a big slow cooker full of tea eggs (basically flavored hard-boiled eggs; they're cheap and a fairly healthy snack).
Sausages at Shilin Night Market
Another difference is some 7-Elevens (like the first image) have heated steam trays fulled of dim-sum-type items like steamed BBQ buns and shu mai.

But beyond some carrying some local heated foods stuff popular among the Taiwanese, it's pretty much the same convenience store concept as any other 7-Eleven.  No nachos though. Sad, I know.