I remember spilling the drain pan from the chicken bellies into my shoe.
The Liberty trailer specialises in sweet-hot fried chicken, pork belly steam buns and radiant fried beets.
RECOMMENDED DISHES Fried oysters; arugula salad with blood orange; garlic bread soup; fontina and mushroom bruschetta; coppa and mozzarella sandwich; scallops; baby chicken; pork belly; brown sugar cake.
WHAT WE LIKED Asparagus strudel, wild mushroom bisque, frisée salad, Caesar salad; Kobe beef frankfurter, salmon, roast chicken, pork belly and scallops, pork chops, pork osso buco; all desserts.
At a spring festival gathering in February, the Hong Kong Pui Ching Alumni Association ordered a 10-course meal but opted to replace the shark's fin soup with a chicken, fish belly and abalone soup.
Only one lives up to its looks: paella de tierra, creamy and glutted with chicken, rabbit, pork belly and pork ribs.
Some fattier meats may work roasted or barbecued, then chopped (sticky, charred pork belly, chicken thigh), but they are not commonplace.
Run the chicken and pork belly through the grinder into a large bowl, followed by a slice of bread to push out any bits of meat stuck inside the works.
I behaved like an addict, with no thought for those I might have been hurting, just seeking my next high, my next slow-roasted pork belly, chicken skin caesar salad, slow bone broth.
