🚃 KOFUKO STATION · 幸福车站 Shanghai · Jing'an · 静安寺 A Happy Afternoon · 一个快乐的下午
Illustrated Kofuko Station onigiri world

🍙 A street-corner discovery

开心
饭团

The Happy Rice Ball

しあわせおにぎり

On an unplanned walk back to the subway, a tiny shop with a big heart. Warm nori, glossy rice, and the sudden feeling that even a single grain deserves to be treated with care.

📍 上海 · Jing'an Temple Area

🚃 The carriage experience · 车厢体验

Sit down.
Watch your
rice ball
come to life.

This tiny shop is designed as a train carriage. Through the window you can see the chef shaping each onigiri by hand — rice packed, nori wrapped, egg tucked in with care. Like being a passenger on the happiest commute imaginable.

这个小小的店，设计成了一个火车的车厢。就好像坐上了火车，等待属于你的饭团。

Kofuko Station interior — the train carriage shop

The Art of Rice · お米の作法 · 煮饭的讲究

What if we treated
every grain
as something precious?

Before today I'd never thought much about cooking rice. Rinse, water, press the button. But reading this shop's quiet philosophy changed something. Seven small steps. Seven moments of attention. The same rice — transformed by care.

01
淘米 · Wash the rice Gently, to keep every grain whole
02
冷水浸泡 · Soak in cold water Let the grains absorb slowly and deeply
03
冷藏静置 · Rest in the fridge Patience is the first ingredient
04
好水煮饭 · Cook with good water Quality of water shapes the taste
05
焖饭 · Steam rest Don't rush — let the heat do its quiet work
06
翻松 · Fluff gently Release the steam with care, not force
07
做饭团 · Shape into onigiri Press with warm hands. Give it a heart.
Close-up of the handmade onigiri — nori, egg, and glistening rice
My set — onigiri and warm soup at the counter
The little set: onigiri + hot soup. Simple. Perfect.
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幸福
就这么简单
Happiness is this simple
しあわせは、こんなにも単純だ

A quiet revelation · 一个小小的顿悟

How can I treat every grain,
every drop of water,
this interestingly?

Today I walked to Julu Road with my daughter, squeezed into a tiny alley shop to bake cookies together. On the way back to the subway, with no plan at all — a happy rice ball found us.

I love small shops with a big heart. The kind where someone has thought carefully about every step. Where the craft is visible through the window. Where you sit inside a train carriage and watch a chef press warm rice with their bare hands, and somehow that feels like the most moving thing you've seen all week.

A single onigiri made me wonder: what else in my life could I treat with this much quiet attention?

今天在一个街角吃了一个好好吃的饭团。好吃的饭团啊，有趣的店啊。 读了一读这个用心饭团的自我表达，突然发现——哎呀，我们明日煮饭就是一个快速，淘米，放水，煮饭。 多有趣啊，这个小讲究，还真是有趣。就好像我从小到大，没人教过我，突然，一个饭团，让我好奇： 我怎么能这么有趣地对待每一颗米，每一滴水……
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幸福车站 KOFUKO STATION

上海 · 静安寺附近 · Jing'an Temple Area, Shanghai
A tiny train-carriage onigiri shop — best discovered by wandering

"No plan needed.
Let the rice ball find you."