ekiben in japan

[kenchi]

those we buy from the store it self
its looks cold but dont we need to warm it up to eat?

or we eat its cold?

 

[cormet]

Eat it as cold.

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If you read, I think it mentions 1 or 2 that self heats up when you open but I didn't encounter those.

Had a really memorable beef one, picked up from Kyoto station. A few bad ones lol, just don't order anything that looks deep fried, e.g. pork tonkatsu and you'll be fine. The fried stuff turns soggy and it's really difficult to finish.

 

[kenchi]

Eat it as cold.

All about ekiben, Japanese train station bentos | Just Bento

If you read, I think it mentions 1 or 2 that self heats up when you open but I didn't encounter those.

Had a really memorable beef one, picked up from Kyoto station. A few bad ones lol, just don't order anything that looks deep fried, e.g. pork tonkatsu and you'll be fine. The fried stuff turns soggy and it's really difficult to finish.

yea i love beef
isaw alot in tokyo JR stations too

 

[cormet]

yea i love beef
isaw alot in tokyo JR stations too

Haha a pity I don't have a pic of mine but it's just beef over rice, no other side dishes whatsoever

They're not that cheap also so I don't get them all the time.

 

[samtcy]

1 of the reason why most ekiben are cold, is also because the smell from hot food is more strong, therefore, higher chance of the smell of the food to be transmitted within the cabin and might cause discomfort to other passengers if they can't stand a particular strong smell.

My hubby usually buys sushi set, so it is fine since it's usually eaten cold anyway.

For me, sometimes I have bento set which comes with either tomato fried rice or small serving of tomato spaghetti with some other ingredients like Chicken karaage, tamago-yaki, fish cake...etc. Not too bad when eaten cold though.
But yeah, things like Tonkatsu (fried breaded pork cutlet) is not really that nice when cold.

 

[chaotah]

can buy those flavoured rice or onigiri.

 

[saffronsatire]

expensive and not delicious. cheapest is almost 1000 yen? maybe we cheapo, picked those cheaper ones. even the gunkan and nigri cannot make it.

one damn funny thing, we saw some ang mohs ate the leaf wrapper.

 

[artemov]

I love ekibento!
They are usually served cold, but I remembered one particular bento I bought in Hakata station they heated it up for me. There was a symbol on the bento that indicated that heating was available.

The beef bentos are the standard stuff available almost everywhere. Quite nice usually.
In Hiroshima area, you can get the very delicious oyster bento (Y1100)!

 

[kifo]

expensive and not delicious. cheapest is almost 1000 yen? maybe we cheapo, picked those cheaper ones. even the gunkan and nigri cannot make it.

one damn funny thing, we saw some ang mohs ate the leaf wrapper.

It is possible that the foreigner has confused it with mehari zushi from Wakayama.

https://www.wakayama-kanko.or.jp/world/english/things/shopping/list01/detail005.html

The Nara Kakinoha Sushi uses persimmon leaves for anti-bacterial properties and the leaves wrapping is not eaten, whereas the Wakayama Mehari Zushi uses mustard leaves and it is supposed to be eaten with the sushi.