How to Choose Pork for Chinese Cooking

Pork in general should appear moist and pink if it is fresh. If it is dry, brown, gray, or sitting in a pool of bloody liquid, I don’t buy it. I choose my markets carefully and favor those where the demand for fresh pork is sizable, the turnover fast, and the premises scrupulously clean and devoted to freshness. In general, I patronize small, independent butchers and avoid the supermarket scene unless their butchers are exceptional.