tiffin
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With her mother's help and recipes, the teenager started cooking and selling 35 tiffin boxes of food a day to office workers.
From BBC • Aug. 18, 2022
Rashim, who is fond of thriller TV shows, watches a local Indian serial on his smartphone while his oldest son, a young teenager, shows up with a tiffin, or lunchbox.
From Slate • Aug. 5, 2022
On those afternoons, my own untouched tiffin would return home on the back of the tiffinwala’s bicycle.
From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2022
There are Indian tiffin carriers, ghee pots, woks, a noodle press and falafel molds.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021
"It will be," Ma answers, handing him the tiffin box of lunch she packs in the mornings.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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