While you're busy praising the takeout gods your lukewarm pad thai arrived in one piece, over in South Korea people are dining in like royalty.
A recent video uploaded by Sam Sadeghi, a filmmaker living in Seoul, shows Sadeghi unboxing a traditional Korean dish from a local restaurant.
The impressiveness begins with Sadeghi presenting an all-yellow container that resembles a picnic basket — already a step up from the basic brown bag or cardboard pizza box. When Sadeghi opens the box, he finds a handful of food containers, all individually wrapped in plastic. His main dish even comes in a heavy-duty pot, not a flimsy aluminum tin.
"And once I finish," he says, "I put it back into the box and leave it outside my apartment door." Then a second delivery guy comes (or perhaps the first if he's not too busy) to pick up the remnants in an hour or two. It's as if Sadeghi were ordering room service in a hotel, not ordering dinner to his apartment.
"You don't have to wash any dishes. You don't have to throw any waste out," Sadeghi says. "Perfect."
