Pork Belly Siu Yuk with Chili Crisp Oil

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  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Chinese-American Barbecue: Big-Flavor Asian BBQ from the Smoke Queen

By Winnie Yee

Published 2026

  • About

At the restaurant, we serve both kinds of pork bellies: siu yuk and char siu. And I intentionally named them that way to assimilate the public to my culture! After all, we don’t call a quesadilla a Mexican grilled cheese. So why should we dilute the authenticity of ethnic dishes by translating them? Pizza is not called Italian flatbread. I intentionally use the belly cut for siu yuk and char siu. Siu yuk is skin on, and char siu is skin off. Both are actually the same cut of meat and also s

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