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Natural street food packaging in Thailand, such as banana leaf and bamboo sticks, are now being replaced by plastic and Styrofoam.
Food blogger Pim Techamuanvivit remembers the natural food packaging of her childhood in Thailand. She laments that plastic, styrofoam and staples have increasingly taken the place of natural containers such as banana leaf and bamboo tubes.