How did the Poo Poo Platter get it's name?

Answer 1

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").

Answer 2

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, accompanied with a small hibachi grill.
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").

Answer 3

It is spelled PuPu Platter. Pupu means shell. I don't know how the word shell relates to the food, though.

Answer 4

From the brilliant mind of Baron Bob

Answer 5

"Pu Pu" is the "Americanized" way of describing a form of Cantonese meal served (purely for show) from a large shell which acts as a serving tray.

Answer 6

who eats poo poo

Answer 7

Hawaiians call these snails pupu kani oe,
meaning the shell that sounds long,for it was believed that snails sang as they crawled up


(sounds gross)

Answer 8

its from hawaii, it means something in hawaiian