Appetite for abundance: A list of the yummiest pen cai this Chinese New Year
There are several renditions of how poon choi (in Hakka) or pen cai (Mandarin) came to be, but the general consensus is that it was first made by Hakka villagers who gathered whatever ingredients they had and cooked them in a wooden bucket sometime during the Song Dynasty (AD1132-1279). The food was then served to a visiting emperor, an emperor...
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