Category Archives: Packaging

Pinakbet Packets

Leave a comment Posted by on April 3, 2014
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Pinakbet packet members: bitter gourd, string beans, squash, okra, eggplant

Vegetables needed for a pinakbet dish are sliced and packed for the convenience of the cook and also for the seller to dispose of those imperfect whole ones (e.g. whole eggplant) by slicing the good sections from it of which these will then be sold as members of the pinakbet packet.

Market, Metro Manila, Packaging, Produce , , ,

Inatata

Leave a comment Posted by on February 7, 2014

 

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Suman packaged in banana leaf and sold in ammo like bundles in Ilagan

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Ammunition for hungry self

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Inatata is one of the good ones (among the many suman in the country)

Arrangement, Food, Isabela, Packaging , , ,

Newspaper as Food Wrap

Leave a comment Posted by on February 5, 2014

The bamboo container used during smoking process holds the smoked tamban for roadside selling. Each container is wrapped in newspaper as a sanitation idea while being displayed using stacking system on the bamboo shelf just by the national highway.
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When you buy the smoked tamban, these will also be wrapped in newspaper.

Arrangement, Food, Packaging, Pampanga, Receptacle , , , ,

Lemper

Leave a comment Posted by on January 3, 2014

Sticky rice with shredded chicken filling in banana leaf packaging.
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Food, Indonesia, Packaging , , , ,

Angkor Wat Eats

Leave a comment Posted by on December 16, 2013

Food vendors I came upon at Angkor Wat like the lady selling sandwich and steamed buns below
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A closer look of the display window
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Also a young man selling eggs, snails and grilled banana with sticky rice inside the banana leaf packaging. Most of the locals have an affinity for long sleeve shirts I notice
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Alupi na Mais

Leave a comment Posted by on October 31, 2013
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A suman type kakanin but made from corn and wrapped in corn husk to distinguish from the common alupi which is the kamoteng kahoy (cassava) suman wrapped in banana leaf

Food, Negros Occidental, Packaging , , , , ,

Sachetization

Leave a comment Posted by on October 30, 2013

Sachets of spices and laundry aids stapled to a rectangular board cut from used carton box.

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Spices such as turmeric powder, recado (dried laurel leaf and peppercorns) etc and also laundry aids like oxalic, chlorine, anyel etc are manually repacked in retail sizes

Negros Occidental, Packaging, Pinoy Way of Life , , , , , ,

Ibos, Bot-ong, Suman

Leave a comment Posted by on October 21, 2013

Glutinous rice being the main ingredient of these kakanin trio of Bacolod: ibos, bot-ong, suman.

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Ibos in coconut leaf packaging

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Bot-ong in banana leaf packaging

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Bot-ong and ibos without the leaf packaging

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What one should expect when we say suman in Bacolod (known as biko in Cebu and Manila)

Food, Negros Occidental, Packaging , , , , ,

Wrapped Cooked Rice

Leave a comment Posted by on September 16, 2013

Rice boiled inside weaved coconut fronds. AKA puso.
So common in Eastern Visayas especially in Cebu and I think there are several practical uses of this type of rice packaging that I wonder why the rest of the country did not adapt it.
Puso is practical to bring as rice baon for school, work or picnic. Very practical as street food rice, as take-out rice and appropriate for “plastic-banned cities”  Also there’s no need for flatware if paired with skewered meat such as pork barbecue, and eating rice in a moving vehicle is possible with puso.

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Perfect for lechon baboy too. Got these together with lechon I bought in Tacloban

Food, Leyte, Packaging , , ,

Paper-Banana Leaf Packaging

Leave a comment Posted by on September 5, 2013

My favorite packaging is the newspaper and banana leaf combination.

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Tupig (Philippines)

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Nasi Lemak (Malaysia)

Food, Malaysia, Packaging, Pangasinan , , ,

Coconut Leaf Packaging

Leave a comment Posted by on August 18, 2013
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Sticky rice inside (suman)

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A bundle of 6

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Sachet / Micro Selling

Leave a comment Posted by on August 12, 2013

Our “tingi” mentality made micro selling a big thing in the country. I think this is why sari-sari stores were born where its goal was to sell single-serve packs of anything. I’m sure backpackers touring Philippines will appreciate those single-serve shampoo packs and other toiletries from the sari-sari stores.

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Fabric conditioner, dishwashing liquid

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Detergent powder, shampoo

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Ground pepper, laurel leaf with whole peppercorns

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Tinubong

Leave a comment Posted by on August 11, 2013

Bamboo packaged delicacy of Ilocos.

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Food, Ilocos Sur, Packaging , , ,

Quezon Tamales

Leave a comment Posted by on August 7, 2013

Similar to machang dim sum except for the packaging.

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Wrapped in banana leaf and tied with straw

Food, Packaging, Quezon , ,

Bamboo Cake

Leave a comment Posted by on August 3, 2013

Also known as binungey.
Inside this bamboo packaging with banana leaf cover is a sticky rice cake that tastes like puto maya.

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Binungey vendor

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Food, Local Stuff, Packaging, Pangasinan , , ,

Yakult

Leave a comment Posted by on July 31, 2013

Philippine version of Yakult in 80ml bottle.

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Probiotic drink in its signature bottle

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5 in a pack

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Off the store shelves instead of the Yakult lady system

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Yakult lady

Beverage, Food, Packaging ,

Binut-ong

Leave a comment Posted by on July 14, 2013
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Sticky rice with coconut cream inside in banana leaf packaging

Food, Masbate, Packaging , , ,

Puto (Rice Cake)

Leave a comment Posted by on April 17, 2013

Usually this type of rice cake does not have packaging, but in Iloilo it is wrapped in banana leaves. I have seen locals pair this with batchoy.

it looked dense and it really is

It looked dense and it really is

Wrapped puto

Wrapped puto

Food, Iloilo, Packaging , , ,

Nasi Lemak

Leave a comment Posted by on September 21, 2012

Nasi Lemak is usually eaten for breakfast. Aside from an eating house, one can buy this from a street vendor early in the morning.

This is an easy to carry breakfast pack in a newspaper and banana leaf packaging. Cheap and portable and I have a thing for sambal.

Food, Malaysia, Packaging , , ,

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