From 13 to 15 February 2014, Hong Kong’s iconic heritage hotel Hullett House will debut an exquisite traditional “big bowl” (pun choi) feast at the hotel’s 50 Pigeons Courtyard, featuring a delightful range of luscious cuisines, classical Chinese music, and exciting entertainment for guests to celebrate the Lantern Festival in authentic walled-village style.
Indigenous Food of Walled Villages
Typically rustic and hearty, the notable walled-village dish is considered a Hong Kong culinary relic, showcasing the very best of conventional New Territories taste. The raison d’être of pun choi is to spend time with family and friends. With its layers of auspiciously-named delicacies, the scrumptious feast symbolises prosperity and abundance, bringing luck and fortune to fruition to their loved ones.
Incorporating home-style elements, the culinary team of Loong Toh Yuen, Hullett House’s signature Chinese Restaurant, will dish up the feast with passion and freshest ingredients. The quintessential festive meal consists of nine courses, prepared through stir-frying, deep-frying, boiling, braising and stewing a wide variety of ingredients and condiments, which are served separately at the table before placing them into a basin one by one. A wonderful array of enticing items, including Clay Pot in Loong Toh Yuen Style featuring turnip, pig’s skin, pork belly, and bean curd stick, Hakka-style favourite Braised Goose Web with Vegetables, Fried Stewed Duckling with Taro in Plum Sauce, Poached Chicken with Conpoy Broth and more, are all in one meal. The multi-tiered pun choi is a craft in itself, with all the juices and sauces mingling together into a complex taste, delivering the ultimate in flavour and tenderness. Gourmands will savour each mouthful as the superb complexity with their palate detects a different note with every bite.
Myriad of Entertainment
Before fuelling up with an authentic feast, diners will be able to feast their eyes on fascinating lanterns and celebratory decorations upon arrival. For the ultimate Lantern Festival, classical Chinese music, and entertainment including lantern riddles, flour-doll sculpting, grass weaving, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese handicraft, and Chinese knotting. To make things even merrier, Hullett House has specially created ‘Ru Yi’ Lucky Bags brimming with festive and tasty delicacies ranging from osmanthus oolong tea to homemade X.O. sauce and abalone. Priced at HK$888, the lucky bags symbolise health and prosperity, and are certain to please family and friends alike.
Deluxe Big Bowl Feast (Pun Choi)
Thousand-year Egg and Pickled Ginger
Double-boiled Watercress and Duck Kidney Soup
Braised Whole Abalone in Oyster Sauce
Stewed Dried Oyster, Pig’s Tongue and Black Moss Braised Goose Web with Vegetable
Braised Black Mushroom in Abalone Sauce
Fried Stewed Duckling with Taro in Plum Sauce
Poached Chicken with Conpoy Broth
Clay Pot in Loong Toh Yuen Style
(Turnip, Pig’s Skin, Pork Belly, Bean Curd Stick)Accompanied with Sweet Red Bean Soup and Black Sesame Glutinous Dumpling
HK$4,380 per table of 10-12 persons
Subject to 10% service chargeSupreme Big Bowl Feast (Pun Choi)
Thousand-year Egg, Pickled Ginger and Fresh Pineapple
Double-boiled Conch Soup with Wild Mushroom and Bamboo Pith
Braised Whole Abalone in Oyster Sauce
Braised Dried Oyster and Dried Conpoy with Black Moss
Pan-fried King Prawn with Tomato Sauce
Braised Black Mushroom in Abalone Sauce
Braised Whole Goose with Supreme Soy Sauce Oil-poached Chicken with Ginger and Scallion
Clay Pot in Loong Toh Yuen Style
(Turnip, Pig’s Skin, Pork Belly, Bean Curd Stick)Accompanied with Sweet Red Bean Soup and Black Sesame Glutinous Dumpling
HK$6,380 per table of 10-12 persons
Subject to 10% service charge
Reservations and enquiries:Telephone: (852) 3988 0107
Email: [email protected]Address: 50 Pigeons Courtyard, Garden Level, Hullett House, 1881 Heritage, 2A Canton Road,
Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Website: www.hulletthouse.com