群馬の釜めし食べました♪ Kamameshi, a specialty of Gunma

Oginoya, famous for the popular ekiben (station lunch box), kama-meshi (kama means a pot and meshi means rice, so it is a rice dish cooked in a pot with simmered vegetables on top), has a restaurant in the Takasaki station building.

駅弁の定番、峠の釜めしで有名な「おぎのや」が、高崎の駅ビルにお店を出していました

I had the kamameshi set (Kamameshi is left down corner in the photo above). The kamameshi was delicious of course, but the side dish, roast beef with radish sauce (up in the middle) was surprisingly good as well and it matched the kamameshi rice very well. A simple, good and old taste.

私は釜めし定食～

釜めしはもちろん美味しかったのですが、思いがけず（？）サイドディッシュのローストビーフ大根おろしがけがすっごく美味しくて、釜めしのご飯にぴったりでした　　懐かし～い素朴な味

It says in Japanese "a limited Summer lunch box from Gunma - It is filled with Gunma's tasteful specialties, the taste of your old home town-".

Eating the ekiben lunch box filled with local specialties is one thing I look forward to when I go on a trip by the shinkansen bullet train. The lunchboxes we had on the way back were from Oginoya too.

地域色豊かな味がつまった駅弁　新幹線に乗ったらいつも楽しみにしてます。　帰りの新幹線でのお弁当もおぎのやでした

I didn't know kama-meshi lunch boxes were originally from Gunma!

釜めし弁当が群馬発祥だったって知らなかった～