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Hangzhou-style Braised Pork Belly Recipe, 東坡肉 (Dōng Pō Ròu)
GONG XI FA CAI! 恭喜发财！ I’ve decided to continue the Chinese recipes in lieu of Chinese New Year. If I were to bring a dish to a potluck party, this braised pork belly – Hangzhou style 東坡肉 – would be my signature dish. It is very special to me – proven to be successful in making friends (LOL). This dish has also earned me a decent boyfriend. Now his family refers to me as DPR, i.e. Dōng Pō Ròu – I kid you not, that’s what his grandmother called me last year. On the eve of the Chinese New Year, families gather (from near and far) for a reunion dinner.…
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Braised & Spiced Lamb Shank Recipe
A very happy New Year you all! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a non-memorable (for being too drunk) New Years! 🙂 When I was a kid, my family and I would occasionally go to Secret Recipe (Malaysian café-restaurant) for family dinner nights. Secret Recipe have these delicious and considerably affordable cakes – so good that for any birthday celebrations, we would buy our cakes from them 99% of the time. However, second to their cakes, the lamb shank was my favourite dish for the night. As a kid, the lamb shank was a luxury to me: it was the most expensive dish on the main menu, known…
