Instant meals like soup, noodle or rice
dishes are enjoying increasing popularity.
This type of catering has become
especially prominent in Asian countries,
where people eat a lot of small
meals each day. An enormous industry
has grown up around the production
and sale of the most diverse dishes.
A huge market has also developed for
the paper cups and paper bowls needed
for this. Tai Bao Paper Co. Ltd. in
Chogquing is this sector's largest
company in Western China. It supplies
China's most important producer of
instant noodles, Master Kong Food
Group. Besides this though, Tai Bao
also produces for the international
market.