So what do the young and well-off do in Giffnock on a Saturday afternoon? They go to Whole Foods and queue up to eat Japanese food in bento boxes. The food is cooked in front of them and they eat at a fancy counter on high stools. And they pay through the nose for the experience.
Suckers.
A bento box in Japan is your bog standard packed lunch. Comes in a wee plastic box split into about 5 sections with simple but delicious food: sticky rice, some veg, salad, small portion of meat or fish or tofu, maybe some thick edamame sauce. You can buy a bento box at thousands and thousands of outlets in every town and city. They can also be delivered. And they cost next to nothing.
Still, the shop was jumping - hardly a parking space to be had - and I suppose the good folk of Giffnock are getting to practise their chopstick skills!
It's a passing phase and will quickly be replaced by the next international food fad. Now what will that be???
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