Lettuce-Wrapped Chicken

This is my version of a popular Hong Kong dish that uses squab or young pigeon, which is expensive and not always as easily available as chicken.

A simple, savoury dish that goes well with the refreshing crunch of the lettuce and the fried beanthread (transparent) noodles, it is a fun dish to eat and makes a wonderful starter for any meal. Each guest puts a helping of each ingredient into a hollow lettuce leaf (rather like stuffing a pancake) and eats the filled leaf with his or her