Saturday, January 3, 2009

Random Thai Stuff - puffy food bags

These really aren't all that exciting, but I found this style of packaging food to be particularly Thai.  At the very least, I haven't yet run into this anywhere else: everything from tiny bags of soy sauce and bags of fruit/desserts, take-out soup - it's all packaged up in ballooned plastic bags like this:


Not only does it pass the cute test, but it's very practical - keeps your food from getting squished, stands upright on its own...genius. Some places have a rows and rows of bags prepped this way:

Photo credits: P



1 comment:

Michelle T said...

cool but how do they get the air in the bag? Thanks for the postcard. Sounds like you're having a great adventure