Sentence examples for siu pork from inspiring English sources
Char siu pork comes in many guises, depending on the whim of the chef and his cleaver.
Pork also pops up a lot: Smith and Huang both use bacon, while Hom suggests ham or, like Taste Hong Kong, char siu pork.
Everywhere does its own version of Cantonese pork belly, duck and char siu pork over rice (explosive chilli oil, optional), but they pointed me to Peach Garden as the current pacesetter – and I can see why.
The menu calls it ramen, but it tastes like chicken noodle, loaded with mandlen, croutons akin to oyster crackers; a chicken version of Chinese char siu pork; and a dumpling that could be gyoza or kreplach, padded with chicken and foie gras.
Barbecue hounds ran to Gowanus to get burnt ends and char siu pork steak at Fletcher's Brooklyn Barbecue, and to Williamsburg to find out whether BrisketTown deserved to be crowned the Brisket King of New York in a recent cook-off.
I pulled back a side of the baguette to get a look at the ingredients: pork deli meat, fatty char siu pork, pork floss, creamy pate, Chinese 5 spice and, curiously, butter.
Anticuchos, the street snack of grilled skewered meats, included, on a recent night, perfect little bites of char-siu pork belly, topped with homemade pork rinds, and a wonderfully firm and fortifying beef heart.
After a morning of hard work (or hard surf), one might opt for Korean kalbi or meat jun, Chinese char siu roast pork, Philippine pork adobo, Hawaiian kalua pork (a luau favorite), Japanese katsu or salmon teriyaki, Portuguese sausage, American-style beef stew, or loco moco — a hamburger patty and a fried egg.
There's Tsingtao beer, sweet char siu (barbecued pork) and rice to be had before we catch the minibus back to Fanling.
The char siu — roasted pork with Hong Kong noodles as thin as angel-hair pasta — is described on the menu as "twice caramelized," and the dominoes of tender pork demonstrate why.
Mind you, while the likes of Peking duck and char siu roast pork may, on the surface, appear pretty simple dishes, they are, he insists, "the hardest to perfect.
