Printed takeout bags for Thai Town, where six blocks of Hollywood Boulevard became the first Thai Town in the world.

The first Thai Town anywhere sits on six blocks

Thai families started moving into East Hollywood in the 1960s. In 1999 a six block stretch of Hollywood Boulevard got its official name, and PBS SoCal calls it the first Thai Town in the world. Thailand Plaza and its Silom Supermarket still anchor the strip.

Six blocks is not a lot of room. When dozens of Thai kitchens line one street, a diner can walk past five of them before picking one. A plain bag looks like every other plain bag on the block. A bag with your name tells the next person on the sidewalk exactly where that curry came from.

Songkran turns the boulevard into one long counter

Every April the street closes for Songkran, the Thai New Year. ABC7 says the 17th one ran on April 26, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., between Normandie and Western, with more than 40 food vendors and five stages.

That same day, The Thaiger reports, cooks from 48 restaurants sold 1,338 plates of pad thai in a single hour and beat a 1,200 plate Guinness target. That is about 22 plates a minute. Every one of them was eaten on the street or carried somewhere else.

Soup orders need a bag with a real floor

A Thai dinner for four is mostly liquid. Two soups, a curry and a box of rice get heavy before the salad even goes in. Thin bags tear at the corners, and then the broth ends up on a car seat.

Our bag stands on a 12″ by 7″ flat bottom, uses 110 GSM paper and is rated for 22 lb. Soups sit flat side by side on the floor, curries go on top, and the handles hold the whole thing on the walk to the car.

Design a bag that reads across Hollywood Boulevard

Use your shop name big, one simple drawing and two colors at most. Deep red, green or black prints sharp on brown kraft. White kraft makes gold and bright orange pop. The print covers the 12 × 14 in front, and logo setup is $0, while most printers charge $150+.

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