Although this way is more expensive - you have to buy the meat from a Chinese roast meat shop - it has the advantage of being quicker to make because you don't have to boil the pork first.

An especially popular pork-based rendition from the country is called char siu. This Cantonese classic is popular throughout the Chinese diaspora; Perhaps you've seen the sliced roasted pork top a ...

The siu yuk (crisp-skinned roast pork) – bought from a siu mei (Chinese roast meat) shop – should be from the belly, with a nice layering of fat, or from the more flavourful but less meaty rib ...