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I had extra snow crab legs. I picked out all the meat and made banh canh cua, my favorite Viet noodle soup.

I grew up on authentic Chinese food. I have also eaten some of the best Chinese regional cuisines represented in both Hong Kong and Beijing. BTW, if you want to eat all of China in just one city, Beijing is the city to be in. But this is the kind of Chinese I crave, Chinese American. Go figure. A PuPu Platter is my Achilles heal. It’s so bad, yet so good. Oh and Lobster Sauce. The shrimp is optional because it’s really all about that sauce. For those of you who have only known the white version, I feel sorry for you. The dark is so much better. When done right, it’s a fermented black bean and garlic based sauce. 😁

This PuPu has spring roll, chicken teriyaki, beef teriyaki, crab rangoon, chicken fingers, chicken wings, and boneless spareribs. Now before y’all go nuts over “teriyaki” not being Chinese, this isn’t Japanese teriyaki. That’s just what restaurants have chosen to call it throughout Chinese American history. It does sound better than “meat on stick.”