Double-Cooked Orange Spare-Ribs

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Fragrant Harbour Taste: The New Chinese Cooking of Hong Kong

By Ken Hom

Published 1989

  • About

This innovative dish is an example of how chefs in Hong Kong are adapting their cuisine to suit more cosmopolitan tastes. It is an East-West dish, made by traditional methods and ingredients but combining them with other, new ingredients and flavours — in this case, quite far from traditional Chinese taste. The technique used here is double-frying, which is needed to tenderize the spare-ribs. The sauce, more familiar to Western chefs, makes a delightful combination because the tart yet swee