Malaysian Recipe : Tow Yew Bak

Streaky Belly Pork in Soy Sauce

Ingredients:

• 1 lb streaky belly pork
  
• ½ tsp salt
  
• 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
  
• 2 tbsp lard or oil
  
• 2 tbsp sugar
  
• 2 pips star anise
  
• 2 cloves garlic, lightly bashed
  
• 2 tbsp light soy sauce
  
• ½ tsp MSG
  
• 8 fl oz. boiling water

1. Scrape pork skin of bristles, wash and drain. Rub salt and dark soy sauce into pork and leave for ½ hour.
2. Heat a heavy bottom saucepan with lard to fry sugar till light golden, add star anise and garlic, fry for 1 minute. Put in the pork, light soy sauce and msg and continue cooking for 2 minutes.
3. Turn pork over to cook the other side, pour in half of the boiling water and boil over moderately high heat for ½ hour. Add remaining water, cover saucepan and cook over low heat for 45 minutes or till pork is tender. Remove from heat.

To serve: Lift pork onto a chopping board to cut into slices, place on a depp plate and pour gravy over.