Bag-Bag Lazy Boy: device that let you eat right from the plastic bag
This is version II of Hop+Nick 'lazy' solution. This one is a simple plastic sheet that can be bended and become a kind of support for the noodle soup bag! Great idea!
Food Runner ContainerYo is very fascinated with the idea that people can have their favourite noodle soup delivered from a food stall near by to their office or their house. And of course, without the complex operation to transfer the noodle into a bowl with soup and condiments (those who have the experience know well how complicated it is). Moreover, when you buy a bag of noodle, you would get at least few other small bags more for condiments and so on - a lot of plastic bag garbage. Yo's invention is a food container stacked and lock together with a pair of chopsticks at each level. It might look like our existing food container called 'pin to', but it is easier to open, and the inside shape of the container is very similar to the bowl that it is easier to eat. The top level contain the condiments and spoons. With the container, you can have your favourite noodle delivered hot and also, you 'save the world' --> this is what he says. :)
Massaging Cup
Nan is interested in tactile quality of a utensil. At the beginning she was trying to work on a soup bowl with tactile quality. But then, we learned that usually Thai people hardly touch their soup bowl :O So keeping the tactile theme, she focuses on a personal coffee mug that people use in office environment. Usually when they drink coffee from their mugs, it is a relaxing moment during their office hours...The mug has a kind of texture that gives you a sensation of relaxation. Very interesting idea, but a lot more experiments required!
Moo Jum SetSa and Note are a big fan of Thai Hot Pot called Moo Jum (literal translation is dipping pork). But the existing utensils for Moo Jum are not really perfect. The pot and the stove are too high, when you are sitting on the chair, it is impossible to see inside the pot. The chopsticks are not proper to keep the meat while cooking in the hot pot because you have to hold it all the time, and of course your hand get hot, really hot. So their pot and stove are design in a new proportion, which make us able to see inside the pot. They even try with different materials apart from a traditional one by cooked clay, like ceramic, metal, bronze or even glass...:O Also they re-design the tool to keep the meat instead of the chopsticks that you don't need to hold it any longer since it works like a clip for cloth drying.
Tom Yam BowlAm believes that our so called 'national' dishes, Tom Yam Kung and Tom Ka Kai, have some problems. In the soups, there are many inedible herbs like galanga, kaffi lime leaves, sticks of lemon grass, red chillies. (I mean you can eat, but it is not so easy). When you are dealing with the dishes, especially at the end, it is not so easy to find the edible parts. So Am proposes a simple solution that she would add an area where you can separate these inedible parts in the bowl, by adding only some texture pattern on the rim of the bowl to hold them.. very simple, very elegant. She is now making more study on the patterns.
Drinking Clear Soup
Another Am from KMUTL is working on another problem of soup in Thailand. She notices that we always have soup in our meal, especially when you have one-dish meal like Kao Man Kai (Steamed Chicken with Rice) to make the food smoother with the liquid. However, we never drink it directly from the bowl, but from a sppon, although it is our personal bowl. Because drinking directly from the bowl, especially with two hands, is considered a bad manner. But she notices also that people would drink coffee or tea from a cup with two hands.. Am ,therefore, would like to eliminate the spoon, and encourage people to drink the clear soup like they drink water, or coffee from her container - something in between a bowl and a cup (we don't know how to call it yet). She explores the form that people would feel comfortable to drink the soup directly and take it with one hand through a series of morphing forms between a coup and a bowl by the real clay. We believe that she is getting a very interesting outcome and are very excited to see the 'bowl+cup' for real...
No Drop set of plate and bowl
Champ doesn't want you to drop soup on the table when you take from a common bowl to yours. He has developed many ideas. To make it subtly (not to obvious that you're clumsy..) the set shouldn't look like baby's plate, he only adjust the rim of ordinary plate and bowl for them to stay overlap each other and leave no space in between. They have bark decoration on the rim with lots of trails to let any drop goes back into the bowl.
TV Soup Bowl
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