Post #193508 by KaptainKuku on Tue, Oct 18, 2005 11:26 PM

Mmmmm...Pupu platter...

When I was a kid (the 1970's), every Chinese restaurant in New Jersey used to offer these, and I frequently insisted on my folks ordering one for us, since I loved toasting stuff on the fire. Those multi-colored shrimp chips (looked like styrofoam packing material, tasted vaguely of shrimp) were the best. Toasting those was not done, though.

There weren't any Polynesian places as such that I recall, but a few of the Chinese restaurants around New Jersey made moves in that direction, offered the Pupu appetizers and had a small selection of polynesian cocktails in tiki mugs, if I'm remembering correctly. Obviously I never had any cocktails, and my folks weren't drinkers (much) so they never ordered any either.

The one we went to most often was the Jade Foutain on Route 17 in Paramus, long gone. I even remember my Cub Scout troop had some type of banquet dinner in there, we had it in the cocktail lounge! Pupu memories...