As Chen Ching-piao points out, they've offered sparerib lunches for years, "but they're just not the same. The modern ones aren't sold in the old stainless steel boxes, and the characters for 'nostalgia' imprinted on the boxes just added to the whole feel of them."
陳清標表示，這些年，鐵路排骨便當其實一直都存在，「但是，把菜餚裝在已經停用的不鏽鋼圓形飯盒內，又打上『懷舊』字樣，感覺就完全不一樣了。」