
Poon's London Extraordinary Chilli Oil - 125g
Poon's London Extraordinary Chilli Oil - 125g.
Awarded Great Taste Award 2 Stars by The Guild of Fine Foods in 2023.
An aromatic chilli oil infused with the intense flavours of salted black beans, Bill Poon made this originally for friends and family who sent empty jam jars to be filled. Bottled at the instigation of Helen Goh from Ottolenghi who tasted one of Bill Poon’s jars, it has become a favourite of many foodies. Unusual in that it uses salted black beans, Poon’s Extraordinary Chilli Oil has a depth and intensity beyond just heat.
Use as you would any chilli oil. You can create a Chinese version of spaghetti aglio e olio by simply stirring it through noodles, wet still from the noodle water.
Ingredients
Rapeseed Oil (64%), Water, Salted Black Beans (Contain Soy), Ginger, Garlic, Light Soya Sauce (Water, Soybeans, Salt, Wheat Flour, Preservative (E202)), Sugar, Crushed Chilli (1%), Salt, Birdseye Chilli (0.8%). Allergens in bold.
Allergens
Produced in a kitchen that handles eggs, fish, gluten, milk, molluscs, soya and sulphites.
About Poon's London
Our family culinary history runs deep. My father comes from a long line of chefs. Somewhere in the long distant past is a many times great grandfather who was chef to an emperor. Another many times great grandfather effectively invented the stock cube. My grandparents had a famous restaurant in Macau where my granny was famed for her knife skills.
There is an old family recipe for Chinese Wind Dried Meats, which we still produce today. My father started in the kitchen young. In Hong Kong, he trained with a Swiss pâtissier and in the mid-Sixties he came to England in pursuit of my mother. Disappointed by the quality of Chinese food in England at the time, my parents opened the first Poon’s Restaurant in 1973 in Lisle Street, Chinatown.
Three years later they opened the iconic Poon’s of Covent Garden at 41 King Street (now a Burberry store.) The great and the good dined there – from Mick Jagger to Barbara Streisand. In 1980 my father was awarded a Michelin Star. Restaurants in Geneva and The City followed. My parents retired in 2006.
I have worked in all my parents’ restaurants and swore I would never go into the business, but what chance does one stand against kismet? So, I bring you my Chinese kitchen from the depths of my heart & my family’s hearth.
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