Tiffin Box
Tiffin carriers or dabbas are a kind of lunch box used widely in Asia and the Caribbean for tiffin meals. From India, they spread to Malaysia and Singapore and to Trinidad and Tobago. In the Indian city of Mumbai, there is a complex and efficient delivery system that regularly delivers hot lunches packed in ''dabbas'' to city office workers from their suburban homes or from a caterer. It uses delivery workers known as ''dabbawalas''. The book ''Tiffin: An Untold Story'' covers 172 tiffin carriers, some over a century old. Nomenclature In Cambodia, tiffin carriers are known as ''Chan Srak'' (), in Hokkien they are called ''Uánn-tsân'' (), in Indonesian as ''rantang''; ''mangkuk tingkat'' ('tiered bowls') in Malay; while in Thai they are known as ''Pin To'' ( �pìn ˈtoː. In Arab countries they are called ''safartas'' (سفرطاس, from Turkish "sefer tası" meaning 'travel bowls'). The Hungarian word for a tiffin box is ''éthordó'' ('food carrier'). Design and mater ...
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Dabba
Dabba may refer to: * Dabba or tiffin carrier, a lunch box used in South Asia * '' The Lunchbox'', working title ''Dabba'', a 2013 Indian film * Dabba (company), a South African telco company * ∂, a mathematical symbol * Beast of the Earth Beast of the Earth (, as mentioned in the Quran), also called "The Dabbah" is a creature mentioned in Surah An-Naml: Ayat 82 of the Quran and associated with the day of judgment. For this reason, the Beast of the Earth is often mentioned in e ..., or ''Dabbat al-Ardḍ'', an apocalyptic creature in Islam See also * Dhaba, the name for a roadside restaurant in South Asia * Daba (other) * Dabbas (other) * Yabba Dabba Doo (other) {{Disambiguation ...
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