But the one way in which we are ahead of the Japanese is with our on-board catering. Japanese trains don’t have a buffet car, or anything except a basic table service, even in first class. Japanese passengers bring their own food with them, and in this respect they are very well catered for at the stations, especially with Bento boxes, their version of the lunch box, but a little bit superior.
This photo shows a pretty standard sushi Bento box which cost £8. I can’t identify everything there, but there is certainly salmon roe (ikura), fresh water eel (unagi), omelette (tamago-yaki), prawn (ebi) and sea bass (suzuki). Each morsel was on a bed of vinagered rice, in some cases with a pinch of japanese horseradish, known as wasabi. Of course it was accompanied by pickled ginger (gari) and soy sauce. Needless to say, it tasted just as good as it looked.
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