The tourist trains offer two types of boxed lunches, the traditional steel container lunchbox, as well as a pottery lunchbox from the well-known Shuilishih kiln. The lunchbox sizes and colors often change, and during tuna season the Kenting Star even offers blue fin tuna sushi from Tungkang Harbor in Pingtung.
商人的身段總是比公家機關靈活，觀光列車的便當就分為傳統鐵飯盒與水里蛇窯陶瓷便當兩種，便當大小與菜色時常更換，屏東東港黑鮪魚漁獲期，「墾丁之星」還提供木盒黑鮪魚生魚片便當。