Pigeon as an article of food is at its best this time of the year, It is a desirable diversity from ordinary poultry and butcher's meat, in view of the lack of game in Summer.
The mincing is done by hand which produces better flavour than that of machine work. This dish (Order No, 71) goes very well with rice; and the bamboo shoots supplies the vegetable needs of a Summer diet.
According to the Cantonese custom the dish is accompanied by a plate of lettuce with which it is taken as a salad, This accompaniment is not served at our restaurant owing to the diticulty of procuring garden grown vegetables
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