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Hands-on reviews of Korean convenience store meals from CU, GS25, 7-Eleven, and Emart24 — lunchboxes, kimbap, ready-to-eat dishes, cup noodles, and desserts. Honest verdicts on taste, price, calories, and which Korean CVS items are worth a try.
Hello! Today’s new instant food from Seven-Eleven is the Hu Deok-juk Korean-Rice Crab Nurungji, made in collaboration with Chef Hu Deok-juk. Seven-Eleven’s collaborations with Chef Hu Deok-juk have gone beyond lunchboxes and gimbap, and now reach into instant foods too. Surprisingly, keeping this Chinese-style collaboration going for quite a while seems to be doing better … Read more
Korean convenience stores keep raising the bar for lunch boxes, and today’s pick is CU’s new Pbick Donkatsu & Jeyuk Double Set. It belongs to the Double Set series, built around the idea of packing two main dishes into a single lunch box. CU rolled it out as a brand-new item during the sweeping relaunch … Read more
Hello! Today’s new lunchbox from Seven-Eleven is a very no-frills, budget-friendly meal: the Uiseong Garlic Ham Dosirak. These days even a single-item menu easily runs into the high 4,000-won range. A multi-side lunchbox goes for the high 5,000s, and a full-course box comfortably clears 6,000 won. So it’s no surprise that plenty of new releases … Read more
Today’s new lunchbox from Seven-Eleven is a Chinese-cuisine special created with Chef Hu Deok-juk: the Hu Deok-juk Squid Bulgogi & Baek Jjamppong. Seven-Eleven’s collaborations with Chef Hu Deok-juk — a Michelin-starred Chinese chef — haven’t been one-offs; they’ve rolled out in surprising variety. Today’s is an unusual pairing of a soupy white jjamppong (baek jjamppong) … Read more
Today’s new lunchbox from CU is the PBICK Budae Bokkeum & Jjimdak Double Set. A number of convenience-store brands have released “budae bokkeum” (army-base stir-fry) over the years, and this one is just about the only one on sale right now. It launched as a new menu with a completely different makeup from CU’s earlier … Read more