Preserved Vegetables with Fresh Bacon

This is truly a Hakka-only dish; it is to be found nowhere else in China. To many Westerners the very idea of eating fresh bacon, with its goodly amount of fat, is a bit unpleasant. However, the cooking process removes any cloying aspects and the bacon is cooked thoroughly and deliciously. My husband, who trims every imaginable bit of fat from his meats, tasted this for the first time and found it to be absolutely wonderful. Which it is, perhaps because I boil the fresh bacon rather than fr