Pork Chops in Brown Sauce

The eponymous brown sauce has nothing to do with the British table sauce, but is merely a description of its colour. It is a typical Fuzhou blend of soy sauce, oyster sauce, wine, pepper and the aromatics garlic, onion and cloves. This dish has crossed borders and been copied by Cantonese chefs, but it is really a Fuzhou classic. The recipe uses pork chops, which are not traditionally used in Chinese cooking. Normally, a rib cut would be used, but chops are universally available and work we