Japanese train lunches are exquisite and have local characteristics

The Japanese train Bento is very exquisite and very local characteristics, has long been not limited to the sale on the train, but appeared in the supermarket market everywhere. Lunch-Box is not surprising, but Japan can make it a distinctive culture.

It is not surprising that food is served on trains, but Japan has made it a distinctive culture.

Japan's train lunch box probably originated in the 1885 northeast Japan Line Yudugong Station, it is said to be the first to sprinkle sesame and salt on the outside of the two rice balls Shing (salted radish) is wrapped in bamboo leaves for sale, with the continuous development of railway traffic in Japan, train lunch box is also constantly introduced to today, only a rough estimate, The type of the train lunch box is 2000 to 3,000, the style of the lunch box is gradually developed from the original rice ball to the exquisite and rich package.

The Japanese train provides a menu, passengers can order according to their preferences

Japanese trains offer menus that customers can purchase according to their preferences. The price of lunch-box on the train ranged from medium to about 70 yuan, equivalent to a one-hour salary in a restaurant in Tokyo. Although the price of lunch is not more expensive than on the ground, but the quality and color is not unambiguous: Japanese train lunch box to make full use of the characteristics of each place of the food, the main local characteristics of food, which makes people in the car can taste all over the characteristics of snacks.

Lunch box is not only fresh, but also very attractive color. There are a lot of ingredients, sometimes up to 20 kinds.

A lot of people even went to the station to buy. Because the ingredients taken from the local, generally very fresh, attractive color. And the Japanese have been very focused on the nutritional collocation of diet, a lunch box can sometimes contain more than 20 kinds of food materials. The lunch box is printed on the production date and shelf life, is generally the day of production and asked to eat the day to protect the quality and taste.

Left figure for 峠 small pot stewed rice, national famous train bento. The right picture is the octagonal lunch box, is the light Kansai flavor cooking.

The development of railway gradually brought the impact to the train lunch box. The 1998 was a major turning point. The year of October 1, in Nagano, Japan, 4 months before the Winter Olympic Games, Nagano Shinkansen high-speed train line officially opened, the train in just a few minutes can be directly through the pass tunnel, a lot of transit stations are no longer needed, and they are precisely the focus of buying a train lunch box.

There are all kinds of train lunches in the supermarket.

With the acceleration of the train, passengers on the train time and at each stop time gradually shortened, the number of lunch box is naturally correspondingly reduced, the train car is gradually canceled. According to the survey data, Japan now sells train-box-packed restaurants only a few hundred, half the peak period. There are only 10 suppliers left in the country.

Under the situation, the Bento company began to introduce new, the use of the exquisite train bento and the advantages of local characteristics, expanding the "battlefield" of the train lunch box, gradually extending the business to shopping malls, supermarkets and even roadside restaurants. Mountain Kettle Food company is a typical example of successful transformation at that time, in 1962, they aim at the increasing number of private car owners, began to operate roadside restaurants. In 2008, the Mountain Kettle had a total business volume of 4 million boxes per year, of which 70% were sold to drivers, and only 10% were sold in train stations and trains, while the remaining 20% were sold in department stores and supermarkets. Every January, Shinjuku Beijing department store will also hold a two-week "train Bento Conference", the more than 40-year-old live promotional move every year to attract a large number of customers to taste a variety of "train bento."

Nowadays, the train lunch box has developed into a special food culture in Japan, which is constantly being updated with very high frequency.

Let's take a look at these special train lunches

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