Chapter 21 Bento box in the mobile lens

The days in autumn are short, carrying the lunch box of roast goose, and dragging our exhausted body home, it is already dark. At the intersection I passed, there were a few bleak restaurants, but the business was extremely hot, not because of the delicious food.Because it is cheap, the alley is easy to park, and it is easy to see the traffic police when they come. Many taxi drivers like to eat here. So I met him. A middle-aged man, slightly thin, with a long face, and a white shirt that feels empty. There is a blue plastic stool next to the green car. The color combination is just right under the yellow light, like a movie lens.

He was sitting on the stool, the windows of the car were rolled down, playing pop songs that he had heard many times but never remembered the names of. I walked and watched him all the way, but he didn't notice.The storefront is very shallow, no more than three to five meters, with pale lights mixed with dim street lamps.He was sitting at the intersection, and the boss was chopping meat with two big knives. Holding a white foam lunch box, he ate bite by bite seriously and reservedly, listening to the singing in the autumn wind.The turned-up lid was still trembling slightly, after taking a few bites, he would use a spoon to search around the lunch box for a while to ensure that the rice grains did not scatter randomly.We are almost the same people, all working hard to live, on the bleak streets in autumn night.This white lunch box is a medium for us, who are also fallen people in the world.

I prefer bento to lunch box.What is the difference between a lunch box and a bento?The difference is the word "foreign style".A friend said: "You talk about foreign style all the time, what is foreign style? The word itself is very rustic, okay?" I admit that it is a bit boring to always mention the word "foreign style", but in my heart, foreign style represents What is more is a kind of ease in grasping everything, with elegance in temperament and attention to details.The embarrassing lunch box tastes like a rat, while the western-style bento tastes solid. In Cantonese, it is "anle tea rice".

Although I have an inexplicable disdain for lunch boxes, eating bento on the train is one of my favorite things to do.There are two through trains from Guangzhou to Hong Kong. The ordinary trains have four-treasure rice in a red box with a transparent cover, and the KTT high-end trains have well-packaged MTR bento (mushroom and vegetarian rice is my true love). Both are 45 yuan .The price is a bit expensive, but it’s worth the money, probably because I’m hungry every time I drive the car. I think this bento is simply delicious, the rice is crystal clear, and the dishes delivered are also rich, especially vegetables (mostly Korean Vegetables) are stewed until cooked, and after absorbing the essence of the gravy, it is unbelievably delicious!The conductor did not push the trolley along the road to sell, but took the order and charged in a small book, and then went back to the dining car to pick up the bento.The freshly heated bento is hot to the touch, and the complimentary tea is so hot that you can peel off the skin on your tongue. The sense of on-the-spot production is even better than that of fast food restaurants in the market.

The most important thing for a bento is the balance of rice and vegetables.Because of the limited volume, a little pickled vegetables are very important to fit the needs of the next meal in the space of the bento box. Black pickled vegetables or yellow pickled radishes are good, which can relieve greasy and add a little The layered sense of color creates an atmosphere of "although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs".A glistening marinated egg, a piece of seductive ribs or a section of chicken leg is the finishing touch of Taiping Shengshi. Delicious bento is a wandering poem, accompanying travelers in the fleeting carriage.In this regard, Taiwan's bento is the ultimate.The Taiwan Railway bento bought at the high-speed rail station is only NT$100 but it is very delicious. It contains a large piece of braised pork ribs, and there are so many dishes that the rice is not enough.And the rice in Taiwan Railway Bento is very delicious, sticky and plump, like Japanese rice, even if you eat it empty-handed, you won’t feel wronged.Taiwan Railway Bento uses an friendly wooden box, which is not only environmentally friendly, but also has good air permeability, and can absorb part of the oil and moisture in the meal.

Taking the train on the Eastern Main Line in Taiwan, you can still come across the famous Chishang Bento. This brand once appeared in Guangzhou, but it seems to have disappeared now. I often regard this brand as "urinal cheating" because of my old eyes.The origin of the name is because the "Chishang" area in Taitung is rich in rice, and the bento made is the most famous in Taiwan, hence the name.Now there is even a "Chishang Rice Bag Museum" in Chishang Township. A train carriage is built on the flat ground to allow customers to simulate the feeling of eating bento in the carriage. They use poplar lunch boxes imported from Indonesia, and use extremely dedicated techniques. Taking care of three meals a day in the mobile camera.It is a blessing for a region to have such a bento.