There are many meat-based ekiben sold at Okayama Station, and I always have a hard time deciding which one to choose, but this time I chose the “Okayama Meat Wappameshi.
The main reason for choosing this ekiben is that it is packed with beef, pork, and chicken all in one. When choosing an ekiben with meat, it is usually difficult to choose one type of meat because it is usually the star of the dish. However, with this ekiben, you can enjoy beef, pork, and chicken all in one ekiben, making meat lovers very happy.
And the meat is all produced in Okayama Prefecture. It does not seem to be an Okayama Prefecture brand meat, which may be a little disappointing, but the fact that it uses a wide variety of ingredients from Okayama Prefecture is a high point for an Okayama Station ekiben.
Since it is called “wappameshi,” it is packaged in a round shape that resembles a bent wappa. And when you take off the lid, the main meat catches your eye.
Among the meats, pork and chicken stand out in particular. The pork is deep-fried in the style of deep-fried Tatsuta, while the chicken is teriyaki.
The fried pork has a strong soy sauce flavor. The texture is a bit chewy, but there is no bad taste characteristic of pork, and the pork flavor spreads in the mouth with each bite.
Chicken teriyaki has a strong sweet flavor. This dish is more tender than pork. The chicken flavor seeps out not only from the meat but also from the skin, which makes the rice go further.
The beef is cooked in a tsukudani style. The beef, however, does not have the full flavor of soy sauce, and the sweetness is relatively strong, giving it a taste closer to sukiyaki than to tsukudani. Of course, it goes great with rice, too.
Underneath the meat is not white rice, but rice cooked in dashi broth. When you eat the rice alone, you can taste the flavor of seafood, so it is like rice cooked in seafood broth, but when you eat it with the meat, you feel that both flavors mingle and the deliciousness is enhanced.
In addition, the wild vegetable stew, carrot stew, bamboo shoots, and omelette that surround the meat have a relatively light flavor that blends well with the darkly seasoned meat. It is a nice part of the dish not only as a complement to the meat, but also because each is tasty enough. The beef, pork, and chicken used in this ekiben definitely make it a meat-dominated ekiben, but it is not all about the meat, and I felt it was a very well-balanced ekiben.
This is a must-have ekiben for meat lovers, of course, but also for those who want to eat meat but can’t decide which meat to choose.
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