The Tsai Family’s Red Roast Pork

This is a favourite dish on the family table of my friend Ming Tsai. Unlike a majority of Chinese-Americans, who are of southern Chinese ancestry, Ming’s family roots are in northern China. Shanghai, like Canton, is a coastal city, but it is much farther north. Along with many other northern Chinese, the family migrated to Taiwan during the troubled times following World War Two.

Red roast pork is a typical Shanghai dish that be