Hello folks, Happy Winter Solstice to everyone! Tonight is supposed to be the shortest day of the year (so obviously night time is going to be longer). For the Chinese, today we celebrate 冬至 which literally means winter solstice festival in English. We will prepare glutinous rice ball (tong yuen) in the morning and offer some for prayers before eating them ourselves later in the day. They used to say every year you eat tong yuen and that signifies that you're getting one year older. Every year, Winter Solstice is an important day as my extended family will all gather together and have a great feast for dinner! With a great feast, comes a long day of slaving away in the kitchen preparing dish after dish of food for the dinner. Today I am going to share the recipe of a dish which I just made for the first time ever: 红烧肉! The source of inspiration for this dish is due to all the mainland chinese dramas that I've been watching previously where they keep bringing up this dish! Hehe...
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Ingredients:
600g of pork belly
40g of rock sugar (crushed - about one small rice bowl)
4 cloves of garlic
10 g of ginger (approx. 1 inch block)
10 g of the white parts of green onions
2 tbsp of soy sauce
1 tbsp of cooking wine
1 1/2 tsp of salt
4-5 tbsp of cooking oil
Water
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