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Conbini Boys

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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Latest Episodes:

Radio Lawson Jun 18, 2024

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In this week’s episode we discuss:

🐥 Music requests at Lawson

🐥 A body pillow in the form of a receipt

🐥 A hot and cheesy karaage-kun

🐥 Matt and Mike in sync over this weeks items

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Eventually It'll All Be Sticks and Bars May 09, 2024

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In this week’s episode we discuss:

🐥 The stick and bar evolution of salad chicken

🐥 Tartar sauce inside of chikis

🐥 Imaginary fruits

🐥 Mottainai chuhais

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Shrinkflation? Skimpflation? Apr 25, 2024

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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 Nov 29, 2023

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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 Aug 23, 2023

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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 Aug 10, 2023

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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 Jul 12, 2023

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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! Jun 28, 2023

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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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Welcoming Summer in Okinawa Jun 14, 2023

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In this week’s episode we discuss:

🐥 Ministop’s Ode to Okinawa Campaign

🐥 Karapeño Nanachiki from 7-11

🐥 Nagano Grape Ice Cream from Ministop

🐥 A Very Weird Corn Bread from FamilyMart

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The Legend of the Conbini Boys: Tears of the Chiki May 24, 2023

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In this week’s episode we discuss:

🐥 Lawson’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom campaign

🐥 The most chikis we’ve ever seen in one week

🐥 Ever increasing abstractions of pizza

🐥 Regulating your body temperature with inarizushi and zarusoba

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