Detail:

Condition: New

Size: diameter 4” Deep 1.5”, High 5”, (Approximately)

Color: Yellow

Style: Pinto Thai Enamelware Antique

Food container, called “Pinto” in Thai and “Bento” in Japanese, represents the traditional culture of Thai people. In the past, housewives made the lunchbox for their husbands to eat at work. Children took Pinto from their mothers to eat at school. It is also usual for Thai people to carry Pinto to the temple.

These days, with the fast-growing and changing world, Pinto has been fading away from Thai society.  Thai people find it more comfortable to have lunch at the nearby restaurant or cafeteria. The old-styles lunchbox is used as collectible stuff.  Pinto is only preserved to use as lunchbox offering food for monk at the religious ceremony.

This is old style of food container in order to preserve the tradition and culture of the older generation. This old style is valuable either to collect as a collected stuff or to use as food container.

The product is made by cold-steel-sheet, then chemical coating to become "Enamelware" and then covered again by Food Grade Color, which has certification as shown in the picture, so you can be sure about your safety when you put rice in one layer, and soup or any kind of food in other layers even hot or cold food.