Japanese train bento
Compared with the monotonous meals of the motherland's high-speed rail, Japan's train box lunch has developed into a characteristic culture because of its exquisiteness and local characteristics.
It is not surprising that meals are provided on the train, but Japanese train box lunch is already a characteristic culture. Now, Japan's train box lunch has developed into a special restaurant that is not only sold on the train, but also sold well in supermarkets and shopping malls, and has been praised by tourists all over the world!
Exquisite Japanese train box lunch
Japan's train box lunch probably originated from Utsunomiya Station on the main line of Northeast Japan in 1885. It is said that the original box lunch was extremely simple, just two rice balls sprinkled with sesame seeds and refined salt and pickled radish, which were simply wrapped in bamboo leaves for sale. With the continuous development of Japan's railway traffic, the train box lunch is also constantly innovating. Today, there are at least 2,000 to 3,000 types of train box lunch in Japan, and the style of box lunch has gradually developed from the original cheap rice balls to exquisite and richly matched packages.
Passengers can order according to their own preferences
A menu will be provided for passengers on the train in Japan, and customers can purchase it according to their own preferences. The price of box lunch on the train ranges from about RMB 70 yuan, which is equivalent to working in a restaurant in Tokyo for more than one hour.
Although the price of box lunch is not more expensive than that sold on the ground, the quality and color are unambiguous: Japanese train box lunch makes full use of the special ingredients of each place and mainly promotes local special food, which enables people to taste local special snacks when they ride.
Fresh and attractive delicious box lunch.
Japanese railway box lunch is not only fresh, but also attractive in color. There are many kinds of ingredients in it, and even as many as 20 kinds of materials are used in a box lunch, which is very real!
Healthy and delicious box lunch
Many fans even made a special trip to the station to buy lunch boxes. Because the ingredients in the Japanese train box lunch are all taken from the local area, which is very fresh, and the Japanese always pay great attention to the nutritional collocation of the diet, the Japanese train box lunch can be described as healthy and delicious. The date of production and shelf life are printed on the lunch box, which is usually made on the same day and required to be eaten on the same day to strictly guarantee the quality and taste.
Steamed rice with beef cover
The amazing amount of beef-covered cooking rice is actually made of fresh and delicious vegetables and fat beef, which are filled in a lunch box. Just looking at it, you feel delicious with your forefinger moving.
In Hokkaido, Japan, you can feel the naturalness and delicacy of Hokkaido's agricultural products even if you just pass by.
Chestnut rice sold in limited time
In the autumn harvest season, Shinkansen will launch this limited-time chestnut rice, and even the lunch box is in the shape of chestnuts. In addition to being cute, the thick autumn breath comes with the fragrance of rice!
Special bento
The development of Japanese railways has also brought shocks to train lunches. Before 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games in Japan, the high-speed train line of Nagano Shinkansen was officially opened. From then on, the train can directly pass through the Yamaguchi tunnel in just a few minutes, and many train transfer stations are no longer needed.
These transfer stations are precisely the concentrated places to buy train lunch, and the train lunch industry in Japan has suffered unimaginable heavy losses.
Japanese train bento
With the speed-up of the train, the time for passengers to stay on the train and stay at each station is gradually shortened, and the number of lunch boxes is naturally reduced accordingly, and the dining car on the train is gradually cancelled. According to the survey data, there are only 100 restaurants selling train box lunch in Japan, which is half less than that in the peak period, and there are only 10 suppliers in the country.
Under the pressure of the situation, various bento companies began to innovate, take advantage of the exquisite and local characteristics of train bento, expand the "battlefield" of train bento, and gradually extend their business to shopping malls, supermarkets and even roadside restaurants.
Shanfu gourmet bento
Yamagata Food Company was a typical example of successful transformation at that time. They aimed at the increasing number of private car owners and began to focus on operating roadside restaurants.
In 2008, most of the total business volume of Yamagata train box lunch was sold to drivers, and only a small amount was sold in railway stations and trains, opening up markets in department stores and supermarkets.
Every year 1 month, the Jingwang department store in Shinjuku also holds a two-week "train lunch conference", which has a history of more than 40 years and attracts a large number of customers to taste various "train lunch" every year. It can be called the "lunch carnival" in Japan.
Nowadays, the train box lunch has developed into a special food culture in Japan, constantly bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new at a very high frequency, and the train box lunch on sale or with great commemorative significance has evolved into a symbol of Japanese travel.
Shinkansen lunch box
The picture above shows the Shinkansen lunch box to commemorate the opening of N700 series new vehicles. The ceramic lunch box sold by * * *, the simple food without losing flavor, and the lunch box with Japanese train culture characteristics, have been popular among passengers and netizens once launched.
A very popular train box lunch.
There will also be a variety of popular train lunches for sale in supermarkets in Japan. The special flavors of various parts of Japan, the delicacies in different seasons, and the exquisite collocation and production all make these train lunches popular from the station to the supermarket.
Let's take a look at the lunch box of the motherland's high-speed rail.
Lunch box of high-speed rail in the motherland