What do you serve Chinese take away in?

[edin16]

Very hard hitting, serious question....

Plate or a bowl for eating Chinese take away?

Pasta bowl awesome for eating on your lap in front of the telly 😀😀

We have a table top heater with tealights to keep food warm. We decant the food into metal dishes, put the rice in ceramic rice bowls and help ourselves to a little at a time. We eat out of bowls and use chopsticks.

I know it sounds like a lot of palaver, but I like to make it a bit more like eating in a restaurant.

Fish and chips are eaten out of the cardboard boxes they come in.

Horses for courses.

When we have Chinese, we go IN. So we have a pasta bowl with rice or noodles and a couple of mains, a side plate with selection of sharing starters and a bowl for chips, and then the sauces for dipping and a glass of wine. I really want a Chinese now!

Big old pasta bowl

Also we don't order our own food and share everything. Makes it more interesting. We've worked out what we both like and have the same taste in Chinese food.

Salt and pepper chicken.
King prawns with ginger and spring onion.
Honey spicy shredded beef.
Egg fried rice.

Plates but ours have quite a nice lip on them so no slopping sauces. On a padded tray in our laps as a treat! Forks not chopsticks here.

We also order loads of dishes and share a bit of everything, that's the best thing about a Chinese takeaway, the variety! We usually have special fried rice, spare ribs in gravy, garlic salt and pepper crispy chicken, Cantonese chilli beef, sweet and sour pork, duck pancakes, and a veg chow mein. Oh and Chinese chips, prawn crackers and extra curry sauce. Always with a nice glass of wine too.

Yum yum yum. I'm hungry now!

Loads of leftover for us greedy pigs too!

Whatever's available really. More often than not pasta type bowls to avoid extra mess.

I/we never eat it all so dont like to eat directly out of the takeaway containers. Decant into bowls, put any sides in a separate one and then stick he leftovers into the fridge in their pots to eat the next day.

I only ever eat it drunk in the way home from the pub, fried rice and curry sauce scoffed with the blue plastic fork straight out of the tray.

Pasta type bowls.

What I want to know is why is that 'everyone' except me appears to able to use chopsticks? I've suddenly noticed that I appear to be the only person who needs to ask for a fork. These are people who are not Chinese and have never been to China. When did they learn?

On a completely unrelated matter, why is Chinese takeaway food in the US served in those square cardboard tubs (based on TV and film, so may not be accurate), and in the UK, flatter foil containers?

This is a great thread - I love the variety of responses.

Pasta bowl. It’s not a huge occasion for us.

@AlfonsoTheUnrepentant

This is a great thread - I love the variety of responses.

And how many of us will need to get Chinese takeaway tonight?

Me thinks the OP works for the Chinese Takeaway Marketing Board.

Another who uses pasta bowls. Sides just get left in the trays though.

@BarbaraofSeville

'Me thinks the OP works for the Chinese Takeaway Marketing Board.'

If they get free take away then absolutely I want this to be my job!!!

I was actually wondering because my family is a plate family and my partners is a little bowl family but I'm having different people over for Chinese tonight and don't know what the norm is. But there's a big variety of answers

@Softwonder

We all share whatever we have bought so it ends up quite a mixture - definitely a pasta bowl to stop sloppier things going awol.

It all gets spread out on the kitchen table, we fill our bowls and then scuttle back to the sitting room to eat it and watch TV. Usually on a saturday night.

This is pretty much our system too.

We used to have one of those warmer doodahs with tealights in it that sat in the middle of the table, and I always liked the ricebowl and chopsticks way then, helping yourself to bits of everything as you go along. Too much faff these days, and anyway when we had our new kitchen fitted, the warmer was one of the many things that went to the charity shop.

What I want to know is why is that 'everyone' except me appears to able to use chopsticks? I've suddenly noticed that I appear to be the only person who needs to ask for a fork. These are people who are not Chinese and have never been to China. When did they learn? I learned because i tried it once and and was awful, so I got some and ate my normal dinners with them to practice.

Pasta bowl.

What I want to know is why is that 'everyone' except me appears to able to use chopsticks? I've suddenly noticed that I appear to be the only person who needs to ask for a fork. These are people who are not Chinese and have never been to China. When did they learn?
I followed the printed instructions on the wrapper of a pair of chopsticks about 35 years ago.

@BarbaraofSeville

Pasta type bowls.

What I want to know is why is that 'everyone' except me appears to able to use chopsticks? I've suddenly noticed that I appear to be the only person who needs to ask for a fork. These are people who are not Chinese and have never been to China. When did they learn?

On a completely unrelated matter, why is Chinese takeaway food in the US served in those square cardboard tubs (based on TV and film, so may not be accurate), and in the UK, flatter foil containers?

I was taught in a Chinese restaurant over 35 years ago. It doesn't taste the same if you eat it with a fork.

We already had a Chinese takeaway planned for Sunday night, thank goodness.

@mafted

I only ever eat it drunk in the way home from the pub, fried rice and curry sauce scoffed with the blue plastic fork straight out of the tray.

That is NOT a Chinese.

Straight out of the plastic tub

Plates just rice the food on top although the "rubbish" cereal bowls we got in a set I now realise are pasta bowls soo might start using those

@knittingaddict
Well it's the only thing I like since they started putting mushrooms in the mixed vegetables in black pepper sauce so...💁‍♀️

Bowls and chopsticks. But we only have it rarely - usually a Bangladeshi takeaway if we do.