He phoned up a takeout place and asked them to deliver in two hours.
I ask the partner if leftovers go on sale at the end of day, the way they do at a takeout place four blocks south.
The template for these Chinese takeout places might as well be Ming Garden.
The chicken joint, which sits next to a bodega and a Chinese takeout place, is surrounded by grand apartment buildings that symbolize better times past.
Cheap and cheery ethnic takeout places, popular with students, are abundant in the Boston area.
One night I was really beat, we worked really late and went to get food at some takeout place.
Mr. Kikilo seemed disappointed to find it now a Chinese takeout place.
(When they do, they give the address of the nearest apartment building and then intercept the order, because takeout places won't deliver to a car.)
But, he said, it will stay mainly a takeout place.
Then he turned to his wife, and asked, "Honey, what's the name of that Chinese takeout place?"