Sunday 13 March 2011

Bento Box

We just had our first Bento Box whilst on the bullet train. We've been hearing them mentioned since we arrived and wondered what they were about.

You get a long wooden box with 4 compartments in it. Each compartment contained about 4 or 5 different pieces of food, including rice, fish, pickles and sweets. There must have been about 15 different things in the box, and to be honest we could only identify 5 of them. And one of those was the rice! The rest were completely unknown to us. I mean, we didn't have a clue what we were eating. We also didn't know what was for mains and what was dessert, so we just tried them all randomly.


It was all really nice, it's just really strange putting something in your mouth and you haven't a clue what it is... and we were daring each other to try particular ones first!

Needless to say, the complementary beers helped us try each and every one. All that we left was what can only be describes as a prune dumpling.... tasted very strange!

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