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Home-made Poon Choy

Posted by Jason Wong On January - 31 - 200911 COMMENTS
A few months back we posted some photos of our Poon Choy, and now I am posting the process of building the Poon Choy with the various ingredients used.
All ingridients already cooked on the table waiting to be combined to build our Poon Choy.

All ingredients already cooked on the table waiting to be combined to build our Poon Choy.

White redish.

Blench radish.

The stewed bean curd skin forms the second layer of the Poon Choy. The first is the white redish.

Braised bean curd skin.

Stewed pork skin

Stewed pork skin

Steamed pork patties.

Steamed pork patties.

Stewed sea cucumber.

Braised sea cucumber.

'San Sin Kai' or liquer chicken.

'San Sin Kai' or liquor chicken.

Bought roast duck.

Bought roast duck.

Deep fried prawns with salt. Remember to use fresh prawns so that it would have that fishy smell.

Deep fried prawns with salt. Remember to use fresh prawns so that it would have that fishy smell.

Stewed shitaki mushroom.

Braised shitaki mushroom.

Blench brocoli.

Blench broccoli.

Gill is getting ready for the building of the Poon Choy.

Gill is getting ready for the building of the Poon Choy.

The base layers are the white raddish and stewed bean curd skin.

The base layers are the radish and braised bean curd skin.

The third layer is the the pre-cooked pork skin.

The third layer is the the pre-cooked pork skin.

The fourth layer consist of the specially cooked pork in bean paste, which has a very heavy taste. The previous layers do not contain much taste, their job is to absorb all the taste from the top layers.

The fourth layer consist of the specially braised pork in bean paste, which has a very heavy taste. The previous layers do not contain much flavor, their job is to absorb all the taste from the braised pork.

On top of the stewed pork layer are the layers of san sin kai, roast duck, steam pork, deep fried prawns and steam pork. Then on top of those, we placed the mushrooms and broccolies.

On top of the braised pork layer are the layers of chicken - san sin kai, roast duck, steam pork pattie, deep fried prawns and sea cucumber and mushroom. Broccolies as part of decor & green.

This is the end product of the day's hard work of preparing and cooking the layers of delicious ingridients.

This is the end product of the day's hard work of preparing and cooking the layers of delicious ingredients.

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