Filipino takeout bags for San Diego kitchens. From combo plates to party trays.

A big part of the San Diego table

Filipino food has deep roots in San Diego County. You find it in National City and Chula Vista, in Mira Mesa and Paradise Hills, in strip mall counters with steam tables, bakeries selling ensaymada and pandesal, and family restaurants that take party orders every weekend.

Much of it leaves as takeout. Lunch plates for workers. Dinner for families who do not want to cook. And the party orders, which are the biggest and heaviest of all.

Party trays are the heavy lift

A party order can be a half tray of pancit, a tray of lechon kawali, a pot of kare kare, dozens of lumpia and a tray of leche flan or puto. That is a lot of weight and a lot of width.

Our bag has a square bottom 12″ wide and 7″ deep, so a half tray sits flat. It is 110 GSM kraft paper with flat paper handles taped inside, and it carries up to 22 lb. For a really big party, split the order: hot trays together, desserts in their own bag, sauces and utensils in a third.

• Hot trays flat, foil sealed: pancit and meat on the bottom.
• Soups and stews upright: sinigang and kare kare in lidded tubs, pressed tight.
• Sauce cups in the side folds: vinegar dip, bagoong and sweet chili ride in the 3.5″ gussets.
• Lumpia on top, vented: so they stay crisp, not steamed.

Combo plates at lunch

Turo turo counters move fast at lunch: point, pick two items and rice, pay, go. The bag has to open in a second and stand on its own while you fill it. Ours does, on its flat bottom.

Seal each order with a food tamper-evident sticker. Every full box comes with 100. It keeps the bag shut on the drive back to work and tells delivery customers nobody opened it.

Your name at every family party

Filipino parties are big. Forty, sixty, a hundred people. Your trays sit on the table all afternoon, and your bag sits right next to them. When a guest asks who made the pancit, the bag answers.

We print your logo up to 12 × 14 in on the front. Setup is $0; many printers charge $150+. Add your phone number and "party trays" under your name, and the bag books your next order.

Flag colors, red, blue and yellow, look strong on the white bag. On brown kraft, deep red and dark blue read best.

The cost per bag

A full box on Subscribe and Save is $85 for 150 bags, or 56.7¢ each. The two box bundle is 50.7¢ a bag. Shipping is free and boxes arrive 3 to 4 days after they ship.

Many Filipino spots are in the South Bay, with their own pages for National City and Chula Vista. For everything else, see logo printed takeout bags in San Diego.