Golden Pigeon With Winter Melon

Ingredients

600 winter melon
12 slices chinese ham
1/2 cm
2 young pigeons
1 kg chicken
4 slices ginger root
4 shallots
1/2 c soy sauce
1/8 c dark soy sauce
1 ts oyster sauce
1 1/2 ts salt
1/4 ts sugar
5 stock
1 1/2 tb cornstarch
2 tbs water
10 sprigs of flowering chives i used cornish game hens
1/2 his life in cantonese restaurant kitchens
60 cameron road
12 slices about
5 cms wide
3 cms long
2 cms
1 tbs oil
1 cup pigeon braising stock
6 overlapping winter melon on side of pigeons

Instructions

Makes 12 servings. From "Champion Recipes of the 1986 Hong Kong Food Festival". Hong Kong Tourist Association, 1986.