Black Vinegar Pork?

[Wan Wan]

Okay, Wan Wan, I have another recipe request....Do you know how to cook the Black vinegar Pork? The dish mostly served to moms just after giving birth....That's one of my fav. dish as well...

Oops...this is not my favorite recipe.
Some like it sour, some like it sweet.
My mum has a special claypot just for this dish which used to be her mother's.
It has been many decades since she cooked this dish and she also do not know where the pot is also.
I think it's lost.
Once a blue moon, I would just take away a small portion from a restaurant in 1Utama - Yam Yam Bah Kut Teh, for her.
That too is a long time.

Any way here you go...

half a bottle Black Vinegar – Buy it from a reputable Chinese Medicine Herbal shop. Tell them what you want it for.
2 Tbsp Sesame Seed Oil
300g Brown Sugar (adjust to taste, Rock sugar also can)
500g old ginger, remove the skin with the tip of a spoon & smashed lightly
750ml water.

1 Trotters (Front leg) Make sure the butcher prepare it - removes all the fines hairs, the nails and the meat between the toes before cutting into your desired size.

Put first 5 items into a BIG claypot.
Bring to a boil.
Add the trotters pieces and let it slow boil till soft & tender (approx. 2.5hrs)
Nowadays most used slowcooker and dump everything in.
Leave it to cook, on high, overnight and voila!

twohands - will sure says this dish also tastes nicer after several days.

[twohands]

........Put first 5 items into a BIG claypot.
Bring to a boil.
Add the trotters pieces and let it slow boil till soft & tender (approx. 2.5hrs)
Nowadays most used slowcooker and dump everything in.
Leave it to cook, on high, overnight and voila!

twohands - will sure says this dish also tastes nicer after several days.

ha ha ha!! but sometimes kenot tahan worr... smell the dish cooking already want to eat straightaway

[fRaNkY]

Margaret YTF got this dish rite?

[tsd]

pork related dish especially, if you have a choice, its better to cook it yourself.

[Wan Wan]

pork related dish especially, if you have a choice, its better to cook it yourself.

and pray tell why is that?
This trotters thing is just too big for a person to consume which is why we hardly cook it.
Youngster - my kids, now a days do not go for this.

[syltel]

oooooohhhhhhh...thanxs Wan Wan....I cant wait to make this...As for the black vinegar, there's two types, right... the sweet one and the normal one..which is better? Erm...which chinese medicine shop that's good around subang?? Thanxs......

[tsd]

and pray tell why is that?
This trotters thing is just too big for a person to consume which is why we hardly cook it.
Youngster - my kids, now a days do not go for this.

if you have seen how dirty the pigs are, then you will know how important it is to make sure it is clean before cooking.

I would scrap the skin, wash with salt, boil it, then scrap and wash with salt again ... I will repeat until I am satisfied that it is clean, then only I start to cook. I am not sure the one you eat outside would do the same.

[Wan Wan]

...As for the black vinegar, there's two types, right... the sweet one and the normal one..which is better? Erm...which chinese medicine shop that's good around subang?? Thanxs......

Choice of vineger? It depends on your taste.
Like I said some like it sour, some like it sweet.
Suggest you use a mixture of 1:1, so buy both.
During the slow boiling process, you can fine tune the favour to your liking by adding which ever one you like.

I usually buy from Eu Yan Sang which is much more expensive but I guess I have more confidence buying from them.
Alternative you can try a shop at the flats in USJ6

[Wan Wan]

if you have seen how dirty the pigs are, then you will know how important it is to make sure it is clean before cooking.

I would scrap the skin, wash with salt, boil it, then scrap and wash with salt again ... I will repeat until I am satisfied that it is clean, then only I start to cook. I am not sure the one you eat outside would do the same.

Yes, you are right about the importance of cleaning the meat thoroughly.
However, in today's pig farming the legs are not that bad.
Even now my mum seldom goes to that extent anymore and she is very fussy about raw meat, particularly their smell.
Also you should buy from butchers that are clean, tidy, very organized, and uses the blow torch to prepare the leg for you.

About the shop that I recommended I know that they use imported leg from Holland, but that was like 2 years ago.
Now I don't know if they still used that meat but you can ask.

[syltel]

Okay, thanxs Wan Wan....

[lady-o-leisure]

About a week ago my sis in S'pore made a huge pot of vegetarian Black Vineger 'pork'. She is very fussy about how it is done... so she told me how she cooks it...


She scrubs the ginger but doesn't scrape it. Then she slices them thickly and suns them to dry for a day. After that she fries them in a lot of sesame oil till they brown.

In a claypot on medium heat, she heats 2 btls of original black vinegar which is the sour one, and half btl of the sweet one. Add the sugar to that, and add the fried ginger into the pot. Allow to simmer.. then add the vegetarian 'meat' chunks in, and also if u want, add some eggs.

Well.. that's her way of cooking it
She is famous for her vegetarian bak-chang.

[Wan Wan]

She is famous for her vegetarian bak-chang.

That's nice to know. Does she sells them?
Is it made of oats instead of the usual variety of rice?

[lady-o-leisure]

Every year she has orders for vegetarian Bak-chang, usually at least 1,000 pcs each festival season.
I will find out what she uses when i see her online again. She always uses a lot of ingredients for maximum flavor. She isn't one to stinge on the that. Hence, she works hard at it but doesn't untung a lot. Been a long while since i last ate her bak-changs. Time sure flies.

[syltel]

Hey Wan Wan, Finally made the black vinegar pork last weekend...It was delish!! thanx for the recipe!!..But unfortunately, my daughter still prefers the kai choi...she loves anything sour and spicy!! and I've made the kai choi several times already!!
So, do you have any recipes to share?? Something easy and not too taxing to make??

Thanxs!!

[Wan Wan]

Hey Wan Wan, Finally made the black vinegar pork last weekend...It was delish!! thanx for the recipe!!..........
So, do you have any recipes to share?? Something easy and not too taxing to make??
Thanxs!!

other recipes?
Have many but I do not know your preference?
anything sour and spicy?
Asam Pedas Sting Ray?