Char Siu Pork on Steamed Pak Choy with Sweet Orange Sauce

Name: Char Siu Pork on Steamed Pak Choy with Sweet Orange Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 2 as a main or 4 as a starter
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: ¼ cup honey; 2 garlic cloves, crushed and finely chopped; 2 tablespoons freshly grated ginger; ¼ cup light soy sauce; ¼ cup rice wine; 3 tablespoons brown sugar; salt and freshly ground black pepper; juice of 3 oranges; 3 tablespoons honey; dash of light soy sauce; 1 tablespoon cornstarch blended with 2 tablespoons cold water; 1 tablespoon hoi sin sauce; 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; 2 tablespoons yellow bean sauce; 1 spring onion, finely sliced; pinch of cinnamon; 1 x 18 oz pork tenderloin; 14 oz pak chop

Preparation info

Serves
2
as a main or

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

China Modern

By Ching-He Huang

Published 2006

About

I have to thank David Wong, a great friend and excellent Chinese chef, for giving me his scrumptious Char Siu pork recipe. Char Siu is usually served with soy sauce gravy over steamed Napa cabbage with plain white rice. But I have adapted it. The orange sauce was born when I overcooked the Char Siu, which became too dry, then I ran out of soy sauce so I had to improvise with oranges instead and what I had in the pantry. Thankfully, it worked deliciously well and saved the d