Stir-Fried Pork with Salted Fish

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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

By Ken Hom

Published 1989

  • About

What goes around comes around. Many years ago, when I was growing up in Chicago, my mother used to serve salted fish regularly. It was nutritious and cheap. I was surprised to discover recently in Hong Kong that this prosaic food has become a fashionable and fairly expensive food item, partly due to the overfishing of the South China Sea. To make up for the demand of the huge Hong Kong market, salt fish is being sold by small entrepreneur fishermen in the region who lack the capital require