These are ceramic containers that you can actually use to hold stuff. Be it flowers, actual other take out containers, or soy sauce packets, these containers will, er, hold them.

Small Wonders: Chinese Take-Out Boxes 02:52. Susan Spencer highlights some everyday items that are so well-designed, ... "Yes, Chinese food in the Chinese takeout box is as American as apple pie." ...

Folded white cardboard boxes are a universally recognized symbol of Chinese food across America. Seemingly employed by every neighborhood Chinese restaurant across the country, they’re used to ...

To Chinese people, Chinese food is just food." American-Chinese take-out containers were invented in Chicago in the 1890s. A man eating from a Chinese food take-out container.

What Take-Out Food Can Teach You About American History. 9 minute read. ... the containers that these bivalves could be taken away with in fact linger on as familiar “Chinese Take-Out” containers.

For two long decades, if you wanted Chinese take-out, you’d need to travel quite a distance. Exeter finally got a Chinese restaurant in June of 1974 with the opening of Ho Kong Chinese and ...