A Hunan dish, sour string beans with minced pork, offers a similarly unusual sensation.
Kimchi ji-gae ($8), a casserole with cabbage, greens and little chunks of pork, offers the same reddish broth and is full of character, though it cries out for a wintry day.
Pork offers a variety of tastes and textures that no other animal can match.
Pork sliders offered candied slabs of pork belly, fried nearly crunchy, on sweet rolls with lettuce, tomato and sriracha mayo.
An order of pork tacos offered generous amounts of sliced roasted pork, but the flavor was wan, and I added smoky chipotle sauce to improve it.
Lightly cooked corn juice under slices of roasted pork shoulder offered profound, summery pleasure, and cabbage cooked with fish sauce, sambal and smoked pork jowl layered Asian flavors in an unexpected and very welcome way.
Fish cakes the size of a half dollar were chewy, as they should be, and fried Thai spring rolls, lightly breaded calamari rings and pork dumplings offered no surprises.
It said the "phase two" investigation, which involves a 24-week examination of the industry to establish whether the newly merged company has too much of the market, would go ahead unless Pork Farms offered "acceptable undertakings" within the next five days.
I imagine many voters would be horrified by the idea of power being traded around at Westminster with barrels of political pork being offered to bribe the smaller parties into one camp or another.
Pork brands offered included "Pure Home Rendered Lard" and "Old Dutch" hams and bacon.
