Braised Pork Chinese-Style

This dish, which originates in Nagasaki Prefecture on Kyushu Island, is an adaptation of a Chinese pork dish called tonporo. Nagasaki was the chief port city where the Japanese received ships from the outside world during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The city was exposed to strong culinary influence from the Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch. This is one of the most celebrated dishes from that period.

In the Chinese version of this dish, fatty p