I found a whole bunch of really cool TARDIS-themed designs at Redbubble the other day, and I’m gonna feature my favorites all this week. Today, one of the cleverest I’ve ever seen, Dr Hu’s Chinese Takeaway:
Design by Chuffy. Get it on a tee, a sticker, or an iPod case.
(If you stumble across a cool Doctor Who thing, feel free to email me with a link.)
You wouldn’t have to settle on a meal either, you’d be able to fit them all in the box
I wonder why American takeaways use these vertical boxes, while in the UK it’s more usually flat foil trays…
Actually the vertical cardboard boxes only exist on TV – unless they’re still current in New York or some such places. I don’t think I ever saw one in Dallas (and I’m talking 40 years or so), and the usual takeaway is the styrofoam clamshell, or plastic clamshell. Nor do people typically eat with chopsticks. The “Chinese food” image is, I presume, either a holdover from ancient cinematic times or simply less awkward for an actor to manage onscreen.
The cardboard boxes are in widespread use in NYC.
Yes, we still have them in NYC.
Cardboard boxes are in use at some Chinese restaurants here in Georgia. Otherwise, it’s styrofoam containers.
Depending on the dish, but I’ve gotten the old Chinese take-out style box from Asian restaurants in Los Angeles, Tucson, Albuquerque, and Ft Collins, more often than the clamshell boxes. Also, every Panda Express everywhere, if you order the third entree or a large to-go family sized order. I see far fewer Coloradans eating with chop sticks than Los Angelenos, but it’s hardly unheard of.
Yup, they’re still very current in NYC, where I lived for 29 years. And where I currently live, Minneapolis.
Be prepared if you come to New York: Lots of chinese/japanese/korean/vietnamese/cambodian/tibetan/thai/etc. restaurants only give you chopsticks and you have to ask for a fork.
Here in Mexico you’ll get the paper boxes at the fancier places, but it is becoming less common.
As a kid I remeber my parents going out for dinner and sometimes they’d come back with these boxes with chinese characters on them and I knew we were in for a treat! Ah, good times!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_pail
I learned something today.
Very cool!
Here in The Netherlands they give you small plastic, almost like thin tupperware, boxes that can also be put into the microwave. I’ve never seen chopsticks in our chinese restaurants, but maybe that is because most chinese restaurants in The Netherlands are actually bill themselves as Chinese-Indonesian restaurants.