Bon Bon Chicken

Name: Bon Bon Chicken (Pang pang chi)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: ½ chicken (about 1 pound); 10 small translucent-white sheets made from mung beans; ½ tablespoon ginger (minced); ½ tablespoon garlic (minced); 1 green bamboo shoot (or cucumber); 1 green bamboo shoot (or cucumber); 1 teaspoon brown peppercorn oil (optional); 3 tablespoons soy sauce; 2 tablespoons sesame seed paste; ½ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon brown peppercorn powder; 2 teaspoons sugar; 1 tablespoon hot red pepper oil; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 1 tablespoon brown vinegar

Pang pang chi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

½ chicken (about 1 pound)
10 small translucent-white sheets made from mung beans
1

Asia
Taiwan
Kweichow
Hupeh
Sichuan
Main course
Western China
Hunan

Method

Boil water in a large pot, add chicken and cook (or 20 minutes. Take chicken out, let cool.
Slice the peeled green bamboo shoots or cucumber into small slices, soak with salt about 10 minutes, squeeze and lay on plate.
Cut bean sheets into ½” wide and soak in cold water a few minutes. Lay on top of #2.
Remove big chicken bones, then cut meat