Char Siew, Char Siu, Cha Shao, 叉烧, chinese barbeque meat or chinese roast pork - whatever you call it, it's still the same thing. The last time I attempted this was nearly a year ago in Sep 2010. I made the laughable mistake of buying the wrong cut of meat and my char siew turned out to look like THIS. Dun laugh, the taste was very good to say the least, if you disregard how it looked like. I knew I have to use the right cut of meat this time, pork shoulder to be precise, so I grabbed the chance to buy 800g of pork shoulder from a slagerij in Antwerp Chinatown while I was there to top up my chinese cooking supplies earlier this week. Varkenschouder abstublieft!
800g of pork shoulder from the butcher costs 6.20 euro while a 600g packet of frozen ready-made char siew from the chinese supermart costs 8.80 euro. That works out to be very little savings after all, isn't it, especially when you still have to take into account transport costs. (I am not money-pinching though as a housewife you need to keep an eye on what are the best deals during grocery-shopping.) But the beautiful thing about marinating and roasting your own char siew pork is that.....there are no preservatives!!! You get to select your own cut of meat, and you determine whether you want it to be sweet or salty, tender or charred. Though I may never be able to achieve the standards of professionals, but I take pride in declaring that at least, I know what goes behind the making of char siew pork. You can't pull wool over my eyes :)
If you wish to try out the 2 different recipes which I used in making my own char siew, you can visit my previous post. :)
再战蜜汁叉烧, 任务达成!
800g of pork shoulder from the butcher costs 6.20 euro while a 600g packet of frozen ready-made char siew from the chinese supermart costs 8.80 euro. That works out to be very little savings after all, isn't it, especially when you still have to take into account transport costs. (I am not money-pinching though as a housewife you need to keep an eye on what are the best deals during grocery-shopping.) But the beautiful thing about marinating and roasting your own char siew pork is that.....there are no preservatives!!! You get to select your own cut of meat, and you determine whether you want it to be sweet or salty, tender or charred. Though I may never be able to achieve the standards of professionals, but I take pride in declaring that at least, I know what goes behind the making of char siew pork. You can't pull wool over my eyes :)
If you wish to try out the 2 different recipes which I used in making my own char siew, you can visit my previous post. :)
再战蜜汁叉烧, 任务达成!
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