Description
A skewer where crisp green scallions are tightly wrapped in thinly sliced pork belly, charcoal-grilled fragrantly while repeatedly brushed with special sweet/savory BBQ sauce (Kao Rou Jiang).
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Green scallions
- Thinly sliced pork belly
- Special BBQ sauce
- White sesame
- Five-spice powder
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- [Skewer Prep] Cut fresh Taiwanese green scallions (sweet varieties like Sanxing scallion are best) to ~5cm lengths, bundle a few together.
- Spread thinly sliced pork belly (or shoulder), use the scallion bundle as a core, and wrap the meat tightly around it without gaps like a fox's tail.
- Skewer 3-
- of these successively onto a bamboo stick.
- [Grilling] Place the skewer on a charcoal grill net, sear fragrantly until pork fat drips and smokes.
- [Sauce] Generously brush special BBQ sauce (Kao Rou Jiang) blended from Jiangyou Gao (thick soy), Shacha sauce, sugar, garlic, and five-spice.
- Repeat 'brushing -> charring over charcoal' a few times until the meat surface caramelizes like teriyaki and the scallions inside turn gooey and sweet. Sprinkle white sesame to finish.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Five-spice and Charcoal aroma
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Japanese long scallions (green part) and pork belly, Yakiniku sauce
Pairing
Ice-cold Taiwan Beer
Trivia
[For Youth] The overwhelming number one ace among the many skewers (Kao Rou) in Taiwan night markets. The charcoal-grilled five-spice aroma and burning sweet sauce smell are a demonic weapon stimulating your stomach just by walking past.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Toss one roll from the skewer into your mouth, blending the pork fat sweetness with the 'piping hot, crisp juice' bursting from the scallions, enjoying it right on the edge of burning yourself!
Allergen
Pork, Wheat, Soy, Sesame, Shrimp (from Shacha)