Easy char siu from Cook Real Hawai'i (page 286) by Sheldon Simeon and Garrett Snyder

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    Pork marinates at least 3 hours or overnight.

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    Pork marinates at least 3 hours or overnight.

  • scparks on July 07, 2025

    pg 286 Having lived in Hawaii for a decade, I miss island flavors. The easy Char siu is well flavored. I did not use red food dye. I used a pork tenderloin not pork butt mainly because I had one ibn the refrigerator and decided to do this instead. 1. Top shelf made it hard to baste, so the outside did not have that nice stickiness. 2. The tenderloin did not need to roast as long as the recipe calls for but it was still flavorful and tasty. In high school MANY moons ago, I was kitchen help for 4 yrs in a Chinese restaurant and their chair siu (called BBQ pork in those days on the mainland) was the best and became the standard for me and all the well-travelled people who drove for miles to load up on the creation. Next time I will use pork butt, drop the rack a notch to make basting easier. At home, I used to hang the porkwith metal drapery hooks on the oven rack. Might be worth buying a box! Still looking for great Char Siu Pork in my current town.

  • bernalgirl on July 07, 2022

    Easy and absolutely delicious! Ive enjoyed in fried rice and on ramen as well as in stir-fries and with plain white rice and stir-fried greens -- so glad to have this recipe to come back to!

  • pattyatbryce on June 16, 2022

    So easy and good!

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