- Dongpo's pork
Dongpo's pork is a famous
Hangzhou dish which is made by pan-frying and thenred cooking pork belly . The pork is cut to around 2 inches square in dimensions, consisting of half fat and half lean meat. The mouth feel is oily but not greasy, with the fragrance of wine.Origins
Legend has it that while
Su Dongpo was banished to Huangzhou, in a life of poverty, he made an improvement of the traditional process. He first braised the pork, added Chinese fermented wine and made red-braised pork, then slowly stewed it on a low heat. This dish was first launched in Huangzhou, then spread to Hangzhou, the capital of theSouthern Song Dynasty , flourished, and then became one of Hangzhou's most famous dishes.ee also
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Kakuni , a similar Japanese dish
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