What is the poon choi?

Poon Choi is a predominantly injected food that comes from Hong Kong. They are usually cooked in considerable dimensions and can feed more than 10 people. It is usually served in pans, whether metal, porcelain or wood, full to the edges with various masses, vegetables and other foods. Poon Choi also has an alternative Roman spelling "Pun Choi". It is generally believed that food was created six centuries ago, during the Chinese song Dynasty. Mongols attacked the country and the ruling child emperor, probably Emperor Weiwang, escaped to the provinces of Hong Kong and Guangdon along with his troops. To provide food suitable for the emperor, not to mention the feeding of the number of soldiers, the villagers gathered all their best available ingredients and cooked them in a bowl. Future people who have decided that no containers corresponding to the royal

virtually any kind of meat and poultry can be cooked in poon choi such as beef, pork, chicken and doEnds and shark fins. Sea fruits are also found in a bowl, including shrimp, crabs, shells and eel. Other processed foods such as fish balls and octopus, as well as mushrooms, bean curd and ginseng are also included. In addition to protein, vegetables are also an important part of a bowl such as broccoli, side Choy, radish and cabbage. Sometimes a separate bowl of green, leafy vegetables are served along the Choi poon.

6 Sometimes, dried noodles with eggs are placed on the top of the bowl like a crown. Modern canton restaurants would usually place a portable gas stove on the customer's table and warm up before serving. The bowl is a continuously heated gas stove until it is completely finished.

Food has always been a symbol of community and prosperity for the Chinese, so the poon choi is often present during big celebrations such as weddings and birthdays. Each table gets one big dishes Pun Choi shared by sitting guests around the table. Chinese culture usually frowns on the remaining food to make guestsThey could take home what was left of the bowl.

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