Chinese Pork Recipes

Chinese cooking balances texture, heat and the harmony of flavours — fast wok work and slow braises drawn from a vast regional repertoire. When Chinese cooks work with pork, they reach for soy sauce, ginger, garlic, spring onion, Shaoxing wine and sesame oil, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, frying, boiling and steaming.

A mild, sweet meat that spans quick chops and bacon to long-cooked shoulder and ribs. In this collection it's most often cooked with soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, scallions, dark soy sauce and shaoxing wine. The dishes here span chinese classics ready in as little as 25 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Xiao Long Bao is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 2,940 ratings.