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The MegaBowl
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By David Sly and Cheong Liew
Published 2025
A single-course banquet called Pun Choi (which translates directly as basin feast) is an essential eating experience when visiting Hong Kong. It was first prepared by people from Hong Kong’s northern walled villages to signify neighbourliness, unity and peace, and it is also prepared for ancestral ceremonies.
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Legend has it that when Teun, the last Sung emperor, escaped to Hong Kong’s New Territories, the villagers entertained him with their specialty dish: a wooden basin filled with five or six layers of food, stacked atop each other. The bottom layers feature such ingredients as Chinese radish, pig skin and beancurd skin, enriched by