Medium
By Neil Perry
Published 2008
This is home-style Chinese cooking. I first tasted this in Hong Kong in the early ‘90s and fell in love with it. I find the flavour quite haunting and, spooned over rice, it’s wonderful. The pork belly needs to be sliced to the thickness of bacon, so ask the butcher to cut it on the meat slicer for you.
Mix together the ginger, shrimp paste, sugar, shaoxing, soy sauce and half the chillies, then add the pork, turning to coat evenly, and leave to marinate for 20 minutes.
Arrange the pork on a large heatproof plate, allowing the slices to overlap slightly. Put the plate in a large bamboo steamer over a pot or a wok of rapidly boiling water, and pour the marinade juices over the pork. Cover the steamer with a lid and steam the pork for 30 minutes. Garnish with the remaining chillies to serve.
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