Name: Mu Shu Pork ( )
Yield: Makes 12 Filled Pancakes, or 6 Servings
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons double dark soy sauce; 2 teaspoons Shaoxing wine; 3 scallions, cut into 1½-inch lengths and white portions quartered lengthwise; ¾ teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 4 cups finely shredded green cabbage; 1 teaspoon minced garlic; 1 teaspoon peeled and minced ginger; 12 Pancakes; 2 tablespoons cloud ears, soaked in hot water to cover for 30 minutes, drained, rinsed, hard ends discarded, and left whole if small and broken up if large; 2 tablespoons Chicken Stock; 1 cup julienned lean pork; 3 cups peanut oil; 40 tiger lily buds, soaked in hot water to cover for 30 minutes, drained, rinsed, hard ends discarded, and then halved crosswise; 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce; 5 Steamed Black Mushrooms, julienned; 4 large eggs, lightly beaten; Pinch of white pepper; 1½ tablespoons peanut oil; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; 3½ teaspoons sugar; ½ cup julienned bamboo shoots

Preparation info

Makes
6
Filled Pancakes, or Servings

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking

By Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

Published 2009

About

This is another universally familiar classic, which originated in the kitchens of the imperial court in Beijing. Because of the precise, elaborate preparation of its vegetables, it is regarded as another of the court dishes that showed effort. It was also known as “shaved wood pork, ” to suggest that the pork was so finely sliced that it might have been shaved by a carpenter‛s plane. Happily, it has been one of those dishes that has translated well. Any mixture of vegetables can be used in