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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.
In Korea, a convenience store lunch box is an everyday way to grab a cheap meal, and GS25 has a new one on shelves: the Today’s Hearty Lunch Box. Lately GS25 has been rolling out plenty of many-side boxes, both through its Lunch Box of the Month series and a revamp of its value-packed “Hyeja” … Read more
Chuseok, Korea’s autumn harvest holiday, is also known as Hangawi, and GS25’s Lunch Box of the Month for September celebrates it with the September Hangawi Lunch Box. Back in August, GS25 also released a many-side box under its value-packed “Hyeja” lineup. This time, for the Chuseok holiday, it has refreshed its existing many-side box as … Read more
Korean convenience stores keep pulling restaurant chefs into their lunch aisles, and Seven-Eleven has been one of the most persistent about it. The chain works with Chef Jung Ho-young on Japanese food and Chef Hoo Deok-juk on Chinese food, and it has been rolling out new items steadily. This time it is Chef Jung Ho-young’s … Read more
Budae jjigae, the sausage-and-ham stew born in postwar Korea, keeps finding new formats, and the latest is a convenience store lunch box. CU has just added Budae Bokkeum Jeongsik to its Pbick single-dish line, which carries on from the chain’s earlier one-item trays. As Pbick gets tidied up, more of these single-dish boxes keep appearing. … Read more
Bibimbap is about as fundamental as Korean food gets, which makes it a useful test of any convenience store’s kitchen. CU’s newest lunch box is the Pbick Bulgogi Bibimbap. With the Pbick line’s overall renewal now largely finished, the new two-tier double meal set arrived first and older items are gradually being refreshed behind it. … Read more