Alvinology’s family reunion dinner (团圆饭) 2010

Family picture

For our Chinese New Year reunion dinner this year, my family headed down to Pu Tien Restaurant (莆田菜馆) at Kitchener Road again like last year. The restaurant serves Heng Hwa (兴化) cuisine, which btw, is my dialect group.

This year, Pu Tien offered on their CNY menu, the Hakka-originated, Cantonese-modified luxurious delight – Poon Choi or Pen Cai. It’s basically a stewed pot filled with vegetable and lots of goodies like abalone, scallops, dried oysters, sea cucumbers and braised pork.

Eating a bowl of Pen Cai alone was filling enough for the evening. Yummy.

Here are the photos taken this evening:

Yu Sheng - I just had my 7th Lo Hei today... more to come

The waitress adding in all the ingredients for the Yu Sheng
Pen Cai - the highlight of the evening
Close-up shot
My first bowl (the serving divides to two bowls each)
Next up - roast pork with lots of colourful sauces
Drunken prawns
Steamed fish
Heng Hwa noodles
Red bean soup for desert
Mao Shan Wang Durian Nian Gao from Peony Jade which we brought

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Alvin is a marketer by day and blogger by night. He is a 100% geek who spends too much time surfing the web.

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  • Hi Alvin,

    This year any good recommendation for Poon Choi? I have been searching around for quite a while....so far futile.

    Thanks.

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