Looking at a Chinese Restaurant menu! Just curious.
2006-09-15 04:57:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
A pu pu platter (also pu-pu platter, pupu platter; traditional Chinese: 寶寶盤; simplified Chinese: 宝宝盘; pinyin: bǎo bǎo pán, bao3 bao3 pan2), as found in American Chinese cuisine, is a tray consisting of an assortment of small meat and seafood appetizers. A typical pu pu platter might include an egg roll, spare ribs, chicken wings, skewered beef, fried wontons, and fried shrimp, among other items.
Despite its Chinese name, the pu pu platter likely originated in California during the craze for "Polynesian-style" food of the 1940s and 1950s; such food was in actuality based largely on Cantonese cuisine, and the term "pu pu" derives from the Cantonese dialect of Chinese (bou2 means "treasure," "jewel," "precious," or "rare").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pu_pu_platt...
2006-09-15 05:08:08 · answer #1 · answered by Irina C 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It isn't one food but a combination of different foods served on a platter. I would say they are more like appetizers, each restaurant has their own types. You can get riblets, egg rolls, Peking duck, poi, Hawaiian pork, fruit, etc.... I hope that I was some help.
2006-09-15 05:41:32 · answer #2 · answered by carmen d 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a sampling of a variety of appetizers all on one plate .
This is a good way to try all that they have .
Some restaurants will customize it for you .
2006-09-15 08:55:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a Chinese verity of food served on a platter
2006-09-15 05:20:02 · answer #4 · answered by AL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the appetizer for du-du!
2006-09-15 06:46:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
pupu or fufu? if u means fufu is the ghanan's food they eat fufu with soup.it's colour is yellow
2006-09-15 05:55:28 · answer #6 · answered by miss b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
appetizers
2006-09-15 07:28:35 · answer #7 · answered by AVA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
poopies!
2006-09-15 10:41:13 · answer #8 · answered by nurselucylou 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋