Warning: Playing the sound on this video may cause you to drool uncontrollably.
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Follow the jump to see how I finished making the pork belly!
I was pretty tired when I returned home from work in the morning, but a marinated pork belly waits for no one. Before walking Big-O to school, I placed the prepared pig on a rack above a roasting pan filled with boiling water.
I patted the skin dry one last time, scattered on some salt, stabbed the meat with an in-oven thermometer…
…and popped it in the oven to roast for about an hour.
Once the internal temperature reached 160 F, I cranked on the broiler to crisp the skin.
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Yes, you do CHAR the skin (you scrape off the blackened bits later) and my oven is in serious need of a deep cleaning.
I impatiently waited for the roast pork to rest for 10 minutes before I scraped off the burnt patches and hacked off a sampler for Henry and me.
By golly, I think I finally cracked the code for siew yoke (燒肉): The skin was shatteringly crispy and the meat was nice and juicy. I went to bed with a self-satisfied grin on my face.
(Nope, the recipe isn’t availale yet. Patience, my friends.)
In the evening, I dragged myself out of my warm cocoon of blankets to make dinner for the family. I was too tired to make anything complicated so I simply stir-fried chicken, shiitake mushrooms, and bok choy…
…and reheated the pork belly in the oven.
And then, it was time to spend all night at the hospital again. Yay me!
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