The 7-Eleven Ham and Cheese Toastie (฿29) Thailand’s Proper Gastro Heaven

[Lewie London]

Ah, the mighty 7-Eleven ham and cheese toastie. You beautiful golden crispy square of joy. You saviour of drunken nights and lazy mornings. You transfat laden masterpiece forged by the hands of minimum-wage heroes behind a plastic counter.

 

Forget Michelin stars and five-star nonsense. Nah. This is the real deal lads. Plastic wrapper comes off, slide it into the sandwich iron, hear that magic phrase: “Warm?”, like music to your ears. Too right it’s warm, love, melt it like the sun’s gone on holiday. Into the heat it goes, and 90 seconds later, you’ve got yourself a piping hot slab of crispy bread, gooey fake cheese, mystery-meat ham, and enough salt to resurrect a dead man.

 

No judgment, no questions, no waiter hovering by askin’ if you want still or sparkling. Just you, your toastie, and the silent nod of respect from every other hungover, half-sober, half slobbering, or just plain hungry soul in that shop. You can keep your caviar, truffle oil and the foie gras. Give Lewie that greasy little packet of happiness at 3AM when the streets are devoid of everyone but ladyboys, and the belly’s rumbling.

 

Long live the ham and cheese toastie. The true five-star-feed of Thailand. Never lets you down, always there when you need it most. If only the birds were as tasty.

[Ralf001]

they good even better with some mackeral on em.

 

 

At 3am a coupla big macs are my go to though.

[HappyExpat57]

Whenever I decide to take a break from eating healthy, one of my go-to's is the Mickie-D double fish filet. Thailand is one of the few countries that serve it. Arguably one of the worst things you can introduce into your system and I LOVE 'em!

[scubascuba3]

I like a couple of them on a Friday evening 

[newbee2022]

1 hour ago, Lewie London said:

Ah, the mighty 7-Eleven ham and cheese toastie. You beautiful golden crispy square of joy. You saviour of drunken nights and lazy mornings. You transfat laden masterpiece forged by the hands of minimum-wage heroes behind a plastic counter.

 

Forget Michelin stars and five-star nonsense. Nah. This is the real deal lads. Plastic wrapper comes off, slide it into the sandwich iron, hear that magic phrase: “Warm?”, like music to your ears. Too right it’s warm, love, melt it like the sun’s gone on holiday. Into the heat it goes, and 90 seconds later, you’ve got yourself a piping hot slab of crispy bread, gooey fake cheese, mystery-meat ham, and enough salt to resurrect a dead man.

 

No judgment, no questions, no waiter hovering by askin’ if you want still or sparkling. Just you, your toastie, and the silent nod of respect from every other hungover, half-sober, half slobbering, or just plain hungry soul in that shop. You can keep your caviar, truffle oil and the foie gras. Give Lewie that greasy little packet of happiness at 3AM when the streets are devoid of everyone but ladyboys, and the belly’s rumbling.

 

Long live the ham and cheese toastie. The true five-star-feed of Thailand. Never lets you down, always there when you need it most. If only the birds were as tasty.

I suppose everyone of us once eat this delicious food offered in the 5 star cuisine of 7/11.

But no one describes this event better than you.

Thank you❤️

[spidermike007]

7/11 is one of the reasons the women of Thailand are blowing up, and putting on so much weight. Nothing bordering on healthy in the way of prepared food there, and likely all CP junk products. No thanks. 

[EVENKEEL]

I had the spicy fish and rice for a light dinner the other night. 7-11 is fantabulous.

[Lacessit]

37 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

7/11 is one of the reasons the women of Thailand are blowing up, and putting on so much weight. Nothing bordering on healthy in the way of prepared food there, and likely all CP junk products. No thanks. 

The Caesar Salad in 7/11 is reasonably healthy, not sure about the salad dressing. So are the California rolls.

 

That's about all, though. Enough carbs to dry-dock an aircraft carrier.

[MarkBR]

2 hours ago, Lewie London said:

Ah, the mighty 7-Eleven ham and cheese toastie. You beautiful golden crispy square of joy. You saviour of drunken nights and lazy mornings. You transfat laden masterpiece forged by the hands of minimum-wage heroes behind a plastic counter.

 

Forget Michelin stars and five-star nonsense. Nah. This is the real deal lads. Plastic wrapper comes off, slide it into the sandwich iron, hear that magic phrase: “Warm?”, like music to your ears. Too right it’s warm, love, melt it like the sun’s gone on holiday. Into the heat it goes, and 90 seconds later, you’ve got yourself a piping hot slab of crispy bread, gooey fake cheese, mystery-meat ham, and enough salt to resurrect a dead man.

 

No judgment, no questions, no waiter hovering by askin’ if you want still or sparkling. Just you, your toastie, and the silent nod of respect from every other hungover, half-sober, half slobbering, or just plain hungry soul in that shop. You can keep your caviar, truffle oil and the foie gras. Give Lewie that greasy little packet of happiness at 3AM when the streets are devoid of everyone but ladyboys, and the belly’s rumbling.

 

Long live the ham and cheese toastie. The true five-star-feed of Thailand. Never lets you down, always there when you need it most. If only the birds were as tasty.

I assume the cheese is not good cheddar.  Need to be drunk to truly appreciate  like a donnor kebab from a van on Friday or Saturday night

[Ralf001]

5 minutes ago, MarkBR said:

I assume the cheese is not good cheddar

 

I doubt it is even dairy related !

[KhunLA]

Like any venue, choose wisely and healthy, if that's your choice when dining.  7-11 is a Buddha send for us, when O&A.   Some of the best options for munching, and makes fast food healthy & convenience to a new level.   What's not to love.

 

Guessing most that think it's crap food and or unhealthy, haven't sampled much except beer and the unhealthy offerings.  Oh well.

 

By the looks of some of you waddling around, 7-11 would obviously be a healthy alternative.

[KhaoHom]

Not surprised an Englishman waxing poetic about that disgusting bit of junk food. Yet another foodstuff farang can add to their list of crap that they can eat to retain sustainance while in Asia.

 

All farang tourists are allergic to vegetables and merely looking at anything spicy sets their poor little tummies on fire.

 

UK must be the absolute worst judges of good food on the planet.

 

The sandwich is positively revolting. It's generally fake fake cheese, some form of low end animal product slathered in fake butter made from palm oil between two pieces of white bread.

 

How about tackling your favorite Pattaya all you can eat Sunday roast? Just what every overweight middle aged man needs to eat in the 36C heat weekly 🙋

[KhaoHom]

13 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

I doubt it is even dairy related !

 

I think the entire sandwich is synthetic. Soylent green between two slices of who knows what

[KhaoHom]

25 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

The Caesar Salad in 7/11 is reasonably healthy, not sure about the salad dressing. So are the California rolls.

 

That's about all, though. Enough carbs to dry-dock an aircraft carrier.

 

Nah, it's not. Wife bought us two a week or so back. The salad cream is that kewpie low-end sweet yuckiness. Nothing close to ceasar. The lettuce is iceberg which has no nutritional value whatsoever. I wasn't expecting much but the dressing was pretty disgusting.

 

Granted anything is highly nutritional compared to that sandwich

[KhaoHom]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

7/11 is one of the reasons the women of Thailand are blowing up, and putting on so much weight. Nothing bordering on healthy in the way of prepared food there, and likely all CP junk products. No thanks. 

 

Bullshi+

 

It's sweet drinks to which it's not just women.

 

What do you know about Thailand? Nothing. You don't even live here.

[heiri007]

2 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Whenever I decide to take a break from eating healthy, one of my go-to's is the Mickie-D double fish filet. Thailand is one of the few countries that serve it. Arguably one of the worst things you can introduce into your system and I LOVE 'em!

 

Try the MOS Fishburgers, irresistible

 

[Ralf001]

8 minutes ago, KhaoHom said:

 

I think the entire sandwich is synthetic. Soylent green between two slices of who knows what

 

The boiled eggs are good.

[KhaoHom]

9 minutes ago, heiri007 said:

 

Try the MOS Fishburgers, irresistible

 

 

MOS has reasonable quality junk food it's just a very poor value. The burger is BS. Expensive and not even beef.

[KhaoHom]

2 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

The boiled eggs are good.

 

How can you F up a boiled egg?

[SLOWHAND225]

2 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Whenever I decide to take a break from eating healthy, one of my go-to's is the Mickie-D double fish filet. Thailand is one of the few countries that serve it. Arguably one of the worst things you can introduce into your system and I LOVE 'em!

I ate at a Mc'D's for the first time in 30 yrs here in town and it was NOT like I remember them in the States. This was actually good AND ours has better spicy fried chicken than Popeyes !

[scubascuba3]

40 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

I had the spicy fish and rice for a light dinner the other night. 7-11 is fantabulous.

Problem is their meals are too small so no doubt eating junk follows

[EVENKEEL]

9 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

The boiled eggs are good.

That is just sad.

[MarkBR]

22 minutes ago, KhaoHom said:

Not surprised an Englishman waxing poetic about that disgusting bit of junk food. Yet another foodstuff farang can add to their list of crap that they can eat to retain sustainance while in Asia.

 

All farang tourists are allergic to vegetables and merely looking at anything spicy sets their poor little tummies on fire.

 

UK must be the absolute worst judges of good food on the planet.

 

The sandwich is positively revolting. It's generally fake fake cheese, some form of low end animal product slathered in fake butter made from palm oil between two pieces of white bread.

 

How about tackling your favorite Pattaya all you can eat Sunday roast? Just what every overweight middle aged man needs to eat in the 36C heat weekly 🙋

You should check greatbritishchefs.com, Britain has much high-end quality (& Michelin star) food, but due to the Ultra-processed purveyors of rubbish cheap food, we do have some abominable food.  When thinking of cheese I think of Quicke's & Montgomery (a few examples) as quality cheese.

However, not much reason to have much European foods often when in Thailand given the quality of even the lowest/cheapest of food offering here.  Thailand has amazingly good food.

[roo860]

47 minutes ago, KhaoHom said:

Not surprised an Englishman waxing poetic about that disgusting bit of junk food. Yet another foodstuff farang can add to their list of crap that they can eat to retain sustainance while in Asia.

 

All farang tourists are allergic to vegetables and merely looking at anything spicy sets their poor little tummies on fire.

 

UK must be the absolute worst judges of good food on the planet.

 

The sandwich is positively revolting. It's generally fake fake cheese, some form of low end animal product slathered in fake butter made from palm oil between two pieces of white bread.

 

How about tackling your favorite Pattaya all you can eat Sunday roast? Just what every overweight middle aged man needs to eat in the 36C heat weekly 🙋

Seems like someone has not got their end away today 

[SkyNets]

7/11 ham and cheese toastie croissants are good too 🙂

[HappyExpat57]

46 minutes ago, heiri007 said:

 

Try the MOS Fishburgers, irresistible

 

MOS?

[phetphet]

I'll occasionally eat at McD's, but I can't bring myself to eat any of the pre-prepped foods at 7-11. Even the plain steamed rice in the plastic pot,  nuked to heat it up just looks wrong.

[HappyExpat57]

There's a 7/11 beef and white rice product that I buy on the 2 or 3 times a year I want some hangover comfort food. I mix it in with a bunch of other comfort foods and eat it as I rememeber why I stopped drinking (notice I didn't say "quit?"). 555

[Harrisfan]

1 hour ago, KhaoHom said:

 

How can you F up a boiled egg?

Some can

[FolkGuitar]

1 hour ago, KhaoHom said:

 

How can you F up a boiled egg?

I guess you never met my ex-wife...