Eating Take Away Food with Style

It's Friday night again and My Little Restaurant is closed for the evening, and so are the shops. There is nothing in the fridge to eat. Looks like it's take away again.

The local Chinese take away offers to cook your family's dinner in 15 minutes for AUD$16.50. From a popular, high turnover place, this is possibly the freshest cooked meal available. Unfortunately, the plastic trays and paper bag make the food look like dog feed.



To prove the point, the contents of the plastic trays and paper bag are removed and arranged on hotel grade crockery made and/or distributed by Australian Fine China. Without adding anything else the transformation is quite startling.

Salt and pepper squid with fresh cut green chillies:



Beancurd wrapped pork rolls with Italian cucumber served with sweet chilli dipping sauce:



Pork, egg and seafood on noodles served in prawn sauce with fresh cut chillies and lemon:



What started out like a soggy mess can now pass as restaurant meals easily costing a lot more than AUD$16.50.