Remembering good old days with train lunchboxes

Taiwan Railway lunchboxes on sale during the 2016 Taiwan Culinary Exhibition in Taipei on Aug 5, 2016. Photo: AFP

Once served as no-frills sustenance for train passengers in Taiwan, simple rice lunchboxes are selling in their millions across the island, a food trend fuelled by nostalgia.

Known as railway “biandang”, which means “convenience” in Chinese, the meals have changed little over the decades.