Salad of Crispy Pork Belly, Calamari and Pineapple with Ginger Nuoc Cham

This dish was inspired by my mum and was on the menu at her restaurant Than Binh. Mum has this A4 page of ‘specials’ that have been pretty much the same for about eight years. One of the dishes combines crispy pork belly with pineapple and this is my take on it. This is not a traditional Vietnamese dish, but something she came up with. In my version, I add calamari for the surf ‘n’ turf factor, and for texture.