Conbini box banzai !

by Gwenster on Jan.15, 2010, under Dribble

Coming home from a long hard day at the office I was pleasantly surprised by a certain box the mailman delivered.
I knew who it was from and what was in it and proceeded to strip the box of it’s protective tape to get to the goodies inside. And oh my ! What goodies we have here ! This you see is a “Conbini box” it’s a little project started by the author of Shibuya 246 ; a website you definitly have to bookmark if you love Tokyo. One of the featured series of articles there is the “Conbini monday” where the author Alan; a person who’s been living in Shibuya for the past 20 years trodds in a typical Tokyo convienance store with his camera to show us the wonderfull,crazy,fun and plain yummy experimental food you can get there.

As around any good site online; a strong-growing community of Japan-o-philes from all over the world formed. And before long the idea was offered up to start sending out packages of bliss to the community. So here it is !
If you want your own conbini box, I suggest becomming part of the Shibuya 246 community; as this will (if all things go allright) be a monthly (non-profit) event. Again; I cannot thank Alan enough for his time and patience with setting up the Conbini box project. Honto ni arigatou gozaimashita ! – OH. I’ll leave you guys with some more awesome pics. Had to do that before starting eating y`know :)

7 Comments for this entry

Ash
January 17th, 2010 on 10:56 am
Wow! I so want that bear, its adorable! Gimme! :-P
shibuya246
January 22nd, 2010 on 3:50 am
Glad to see it arrived ok. Thanks for showing some great photos. Hope you enjoy it all.
Teksu
January 22nd, 2010 on 4:16 am
Me too >.<
whipcracker
January 22nd, 2010 on 6:43 am
Enjoy your conbini box. due to my cuerrent financial situation cannot partake in such a grat thing tha Alan has done. Sure is nice to see the community growing like it is. for along time it seemed like it was me and him and a few random people posting replys. It would be nice if some of us could get together w/Shibuya and do a photo walk w/him. I think it would be a great outing, what do you think? I’ll be book marking your site for future commenting. I also have a twitter acct. @puffdragon01, feel free to send me a request to follow.
Well it’s late here in north Texas 11:40 PM.
See ya back at Shibuya 246
Ja mata ne
krySal
January 22nd, 2010 on 10:37 am
being a jap-maniac, seeing all this makes me wanna cry .. i miss tokyo & japan in general sooooo much everyday! totally getting into shibuya246 website *_________*
Tristan
January 23rd, 2010 on 1:56 am
Congrats on the box arriving. Great feeling isn’t it when it arrives and you have to restrain yourself from ripping it open!! Mine is still sitting in the kitchen where I left it as I’m agonising over what to eat next!!
Gwenster
January 23rd, 2010 on 1:31 pm
@Ash & Teksu : No ! You can’t has Rilakkuma ! He’s mine, all mine the precious is :) I bet Rilakkuma would sell like crazy in the Netherlands. Everybody who’s seen him RL wants to steal him from me :(

@Whipcracker: I hope your situation turns out for the better sooner than later, so that you too can enjoy the Conbini box. It’s quite the treat really ! It indeed looks like the Shibuya246 community is growing, with a few more steady commenters than several months ago and with his Twitter & Facebook followers massing as well.
I plan to be in Japan again in April and I’ll definitly ask Alan if he has time for some photowalks for the duration of my stay :) So you better hurry and join us someday :)- Oh. I’ve sent you a Twitter request. I’m “gwenster”

@Kyrsal : Shibuya246 is a lovely site and following Alan’s life trough his pictures is very exciting and charming :)

@Tristan: Thanks ! Yeah I know what you mean. I was _neatly_ cutting the tape away to avoid ripping the box in two and anything inside along with it haha.

My personal favorites so far are: Meltykiss, the wasabi/shrimp chips (tough dont stuff your mouth with them, eat slowly) , Calbee Jagariko (spelling?) Pizza chips (again dont eat too much at the same time) and those little sweets :)