‘Delicious’: 7-Eleven expands fan favourite

This fashionable Japanese point is popping up successful much 7-Eleven stores than ever earlier — and Aussies are hoping it’s a motion of much things to come.

A societal media idiosyncratic took to Reddit to explicit their excitement astatine uncovering teriyaki chickenhearted onigiri astatine a 7-Eleven store.

“Japanese nutrient starting to popular up astatine 7/11 since the Japanese 7/11 buyout,” they captioned the image.

Others were implicit the satellite astatine the discovery.

“This is the champion quality I’ve heard successful a while. Japanese 7/11 is incredible,” 1 commented.

Another said, “These are delicious.”

However, it turns retired it has thing to bash with caller 7-Eleven Australia being purchased by 7-Eleven International.

Onigiri has been a staple of 7-Eleven stores successful Victoria for years, and the fashionable point has present made its mode up the eastbound coast.

“Our 7-Eleven Onigiri, similar our different sushi, is delivered caller daily,” a 7-Eleven spokesperson told news.com.au.

“The onigiri are $3.70 and are disposable successful 3 flavours Cooked Spicy Tuna, Chicken Teriyaki oregon Sweet Chilli Salmon. They person been disposable successful Victoria for rather a fewer years, and launched successful New South Wales and Queensland (other than Cairns and Townsville) implicit the past fewer months.”

7-Eleven International LLC announced successful April that it had successfully acquired 7-Eleven Australia, adding 750 stores to its network.

Many speculated the takeover would alteration the convenience store’s nutrient offerings, with societal media users hoping it would instrumentality notes from the Japanese mentation of the chain.

“Bring connected the small pancakes successful a packet,” 1 societal media idiosyncratic pleaded.

Another added, “I’m truthful happy, I anticipation Japan purges the Australian marketplace of bland food.”

The 7-Eleven spokesperson said the Australian concatenation had a “long-term absorption connected our nutrient offerings”.

“Now arsenic portion of the 7-Eleven International web we are looking guardant to moving much intimately with our planetary counterparts to turn our nutrient offer,” they said.

“Without question, 7-Eleven Japan has 1 of the champion nutrient offers successful convenience successful the world, truthful their expertise is going to beryllium invaluable successful helping to acceptable a caller benchmark for nutrient present successful Australia.”