Family Mart Special Foods! Japanese Convenience store /Tokyo, Japan

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High-end family mart Famimaru Premium
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Hi, I'm Samurai Junjiro
Born and raised in Japan
In today's video we are going to be introducing high-end products of family mart
These are popular products with selective ingredients and particular manufacturing method
We'll also be covering well-received products that are other than the premium line
Now, let's get started
We are here today at family mart
Family mart began its private brand called Famimaru from October 2021
Of all these gold labeled products are the high-end line called Famimaru Premium
Let us introduce nine different types of this gold labeled product today
But before we go further, let me first begin with top five popular items from normal Famimaru
Let's begin with this one
This is seafood bowl
Handling and keeping freshness of seafood has never been easy, but convenient stores that handles them are increasing
This seafood bowl comes with medium cooked egg
The bowl includes soy sauce marinated tuna and minced tuna
Nice to be able to enjoy two different flavors in one plate
It comes with wasabi and soy sauce
let's mix up the two and pour over the bowl and
Here is our tuna bowl
Minced tuna is fatty and very creamy
It almost melts in my mouth
Marinated tuna has a great kick of soy sauce
Sesame seeds set a good accent, too
It doesn't have that fishy odor since they are fresh
Let's crack up the egg and eat it together
I'll coat the whole bowl with medium cooked egg yolk
The egg makes the bowl creamy and can't put my hands down from rice
Nice to be able to put hands on seafood bowls at convenient stores
Our next item is frozen product of ground meat cutlet
You can have this easily without the fuss of frying
Once you open the package, you'll want to place the tray directly inside the microwave
And here is your cutlet
Just by heating up in microwave, the outside is crispy just as if it's just been fried
Frozen food from Family Mart really have high quality
Let's have it with a Worcestershire sauce
Outside is crispy and juicy in the inside
All of the flavor is exploding in my mouth
The flavor is strong and would be a perfect pair to rice
Here's another frozen product and this is rice gratin
This is especially popular amongst ladies and children
Let's heat it up in the microwave after opening up the package
And just like that, shrimp rice gratin is ready to be served
It comes in a tray and very convenient
The smell of bechamel sauce is very tempting
I can feel that shrimp even for this price
What a perfect combination of the sweet sauce and cheese
The rice is ketchup flavored and has a moderate refreshingness
Nice to have plump shrimps in them
Our next item is a combination of frozen omelette with rice and pasta
This is popular since you can enjoy two plates in one
This product must place the arrow on the package facing towards the back of microwave to be heated
And it's ready
Surprised that both plates are cooked well in microwave
Let's cook the pasta with sauce
This is pasta Napolitan
classic in Japan
flavored in ketchup
The fat from the bacon is combined with the tomato sauce for its rich flavor
It's simple but addictive
Omelette with rice have rich demi-glace sauce over the top
The egg is fluffy
Surprised with its texture when it's heated up in the microwave
Next in line is frozen nabe-yaki udon. Udon served in hot pot
This has been a long-run classic product for quite some time
Udon comes with a lot of toppings
This udon is cooked directly on heat
Once you place them on low heat, you cook them for three minutes
When the wait is over, you'll cook a little more on high heat
It's ready when it hits boiling point
The broth from the bonito flakes are very fragrant
The soup is clean but rich in flavors from various toppings
This udon includes shrimp, egg, chicken, spinach, and mochi together
It's so filling with this amount of ingredients
The noodles are thick and chewy
The flavor is really absorbed to the center because it's been cooked inside the broth
Let's move over to introducing gold-labeled Famimaru premium
We'll start from onigiri rice balls, which just came out in September 2022
It comes in a gold and black package for luxury feel
Let's pick this one
This is salmon, one of the top popular fillings
What a beautiful shape
Seaweed lover smells amazing
How about inside?
Inside is a big chunk of salmon
This is belly part of salmon and it's fatty
It's nicely salted and perfect with rice
How about this one?
This has yakitori, grilled chicken as a filling
You can enjoy as it is, but you'll enjoy it more when it's heated in microwave
This rice is seasoned with the sauce used for yakitori
Smells sweet and nice
Let's take a look inside
Inside is filled with yakitori chicken
They use Hinaidori, a branded chicken for yakitori
Perfect to those who favored strong flavors
Next up is this rice ball
It has mackerel inside
What a big chunk of mackerel
It uses fatty mackerel and rice has absorbed its fat
The skin is grilled until crispy and more than convenient store quality
We'll be trying rice ball with salmon roll
Rice has been cooked with soy sauce. So very fragrant
Inside the fluffy rice is packed with salmon and rolls
The popping texture of the roll has a perfect touch of soy sauce flavor
Salmon is fluffy and fatty
Cannot quite believe this is rice balls from convenient stores
Let's check beef stew next
This has been cooked for three days and tastes just like what you get in a restaurant
All you need to do is to put in the microwave. So it's easy peasy
The smell of demi-glace sauce is appetizing
The ingredients are in big chunks and just the same as restaurants
Get strong taste of beef in stew for rich touch
It's fruity from red wine, too
What a big chunk of potato
The flavor of the stew is really absorbed to the center and plenty chunks of beef
The meat has thickness and quite filling
But in a very soft touch since it's been slowly stewed
It almost melts in my mouth
This stew pairs perfectly with freshly baked bread
I've almost forgotten we are at comfort of our home
Our following item is frozen oxtan
This product has brought a lot of attention for Family Mart's collaboration with Riku, one of the famous restaurant
specializes in oxtan dishes
This meat is seasoned with salt-based dressing
The price is very affordable to think you can eat Riku's famous oxtan in this price
That crunch texture is addictive
The salt dressing has garlic in it. So the smell itself is tempting
Would love to pair up with alcohol
Let's take a look at butter chicken curry
This curry blended 22 different spices and herbs in one of specialties
The butter is very fragrant. It's rich with big chunks of chicken
The sweetness of butter is lovely
It had slight touch of refreshingness from tomato
Chicken is very tender
It's been cooked with time. So flavor to its core
Highly recommend to eat together with freshly cooked rice
The sweet curry and rice pairs brilliantly
It's good for children since it's not spicy
We'll check this frozen dumplings
It uses pork from Kagoshima
All you do is heat in microwave
What a big size
It has golden brown skin and just as if it's been cooked in pan
Let's have it together with soy sauce vinegar and chili oil
Juice from the meat is exploding in my mouth
The skin has thickness and chewy
Fragrant with strong garlic and ginger
Very high quality. Cannot quite believe this is frozen packaged food
The last item for this video is burger steak
It's one of the many popular items from Family Mart
It's been prepared on iron plate and recreate that restaurant burger steak
The tempting smell from demi-glace sauce
It's in good filling size
Let's cut them in half with chopsticks
The juice from meat is flowing like a river
Minced meat is roughly and taste meatiness
strong and juicy flavor
Let's begin with rice
It's incredibly
Delicious. I could forever eat rice with the steak
Gold labeled products are amazingly high leveled
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Well, that's it for today. See you in the next video
