Ume

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Besides ornamental purposes, there is a variety of ways to enjoy it such as pickled ume, ume sake and ume vinegar. Moreover, pickled ume is indispensable to Japanese box lunches where there is one pickled ume on the center of rice as if it were the Japanese national flag. This box lunch is called “Makunouchi Bento”