Review on a big bowl feast of Poon Choi

Traditional Village Poon Choi is served in large metal bowls with a perforated metal plate at the bottom to keep food from burning, as it is kept warm on a portable stove as it is being served.

 

Poon Choi or Big Bowl Feast, is a traditional type of dish originating from Hong Kong village Hakka cuisine.

 

 

Usually the residents of this village will produce their own Poon Choi's and Hakka style dishes but this year they decided to order it from Man Lee Yuen Poon Choi.

Frankly the village made Poon Choi's and Hakka style dishes tastes better and they are cooked with the village style ingredients.

But anyway, it was quite good that this company provides the bowls, chopsticks and even wet tissues and they have staff that will help set up the tables and stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

Basically each of these big bowls cost $920 each and they contain abalone, prawns, chicken, duck, pork, squid, taro, chinese mushrooms, fishballs, beancurd skin, pork skin and chinese radish.

 

 

 

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Abalone:
The abalone was really soft it tasted like fat.
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Prawns:
The prawns were quite big and the prawn heads tasted really sweet.
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Soy marinated chicken:
I picked the drumstick part so it was delicious.
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Roast duck:
The duck was cut in big pieces.
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Braised pork:
The braised pork tasted really nice especially the meat off the bone.
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Taro:
The taro was cut into huge pieces, they were about 7cm x 7 cm block with 2cm thickness.
They were quite hard so the other pieces should be eaten later when it gets soft but it depends if they are still there and not taken by others!
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Squid:
The body of the squid was quite nice, but the tentacles were chewy and hard.
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Chinese mushrooms:
not soft enough
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Fishballs:
The fishballs were quite nice and springy and there were no grounded bones in it.
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Beancurd skin:
Very chewy
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pork skin:
did not try
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Chinese radish:
The radishes tasted quite nice towards the end when it became softer and absorbed the sauces, however the radish was quite old so it was quite woody.
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Overall the food was quite good but there was too much MSG and salt that I had to keep drinking lots of water.
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A PHOTO OF REAL HAKKA STYLE DISHES FROM SOME VILLAGE
Dishes may vary with other Hakka villages.
-Chinese radish cooked with fish belly and fish roes
-Braised pork belly with salted pickled vegetables and black fungas
-Pig's skin with red dates and dried prawns

 

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