If you ask me about my favorite dish on the Chinese New Year Eve Feast, my automatic answer is the Chinese bacon dish. Bathed in winter sunshine and wind and absorbing the fragrance of star anise, Sichuan peppercorns, soy sauce, sugar, liquor, etc, it's amazingly flavorful. I never buy Chinese bacon from any Asian grocery store... Continue Reading →
How to Make Chinese Bacon
The 12th month in the Chinese lunar calendar is the pig-butchered season in China. Even for the Chinese New year, only a small portion is consumed. How do people preserve the rest large amount of pork? One answer is: to make Chinese bacon. We call it la rou (腊肉). In many places of South China,... Continue Reading →