Phoenix-Shaped Cold Cuts Platter

Name: Phoenix-Shaped Cold Cuts Platter (Ts’ai feng ta p’in p’an)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 5 green olives; 5 cumins; 10 maraschino cherries; 1 5” cucumber; 1 carrot; 16 stalks white asparagus; ½ cup mayonnaise; 1 chicken head; 12 slices braised pig liver; 20 cashew nuts (fried]); 20 cashew nuts (fried]); 12 slices ham; 12 slices barbecued duck; 12 slices braised tongue; 12 slices sausage; 10 big black mushrooms; 12 slices barbecued pork; 12 slices abalone

Ts’ai feng ta p’in p’an

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

10 big black mushrooms
12 slices abalone
12 slices barb

Asia
Taiwan
Kwangdong
Main course

Method

Remove stems from soaked black mushrooms. Steam for 12 hour with 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon wine, 1 tablespoon oil, and ½ cup mushrooms. Pick out 5 mushrooms, and score ¾ of the black side into strings (for part of the peacock’s neck). Slice each of the other 5 mushrooms into 2 parts.
Put all the other sliced ingredients on plate a