Pu pu platter
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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").
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