This dish is quite common in my mom’s kitchen. Her’s was made particularly with lots of patience and love and I’ll tell you why. When she added leeks to her braised pork, she would shred them ever so thinly. During those times, she did not have any tools for shredding, so she had to manually use knife for this rods and lengthy process. I never thought that it would be so much work until I was doing it myself. It has always been one of my favourite dishes, but I never tried to learn it when she was still alive, primarily I did not have the interest to learn, thinking that my mom will always prepare it for me anyway. Sadly she passed away in 2003. It was sudden. When she left, I started to crave all the things that she had cooked for me, So slowly one by one, I try to recreate the dishes she made. I am glad to say that I was able to make it the same way as she did, it might not be 100 percent but quite close. This dish also became my children’s favourite.

Ingredients

• 3 Big bunch of leeks
• 1000g pork shoulder cut into cube
• 125g Chinese cooking wine or huatiaojiu
• 90g Superior Soysauce or Jiangqing
• 55g Light soy sauce
• 33g Dark soy sauce
• 5g salt
• 12g sugar
• 6 hard boiled eggs
• 1 pack tofu puff ( optional)
• 2 packs fried gluten (optional)

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First , clean your leeks leaf by leaf. Remove all the dirt and put it into the strainer.

Shred the leeks into thinner strips. I used to use scissors as well but was lucky to find a multi-blade cutter at Daiso and it was quite useful for me.

My children are quite sensitive to spring onion taste, but they love leeks, because their first encounter with leeks was cooked in this way so i’m sure your children will love this dish too.

Now heat up your Wok until it is hot, drizzle 3 tbs of oil, then sauté your leeks until soften, set it aside.

Using the same wok, put in all your meat cubes. Sauté it for about 3-4 minutes.

Now add in the sautéed leeks, pour 1400ml of water, add in all the seasonings. When it starts to boil, add your hard boiled eggs, tofu puffs and fried gluten. Cover your wok and let it simmer at low fire until the meat becomes tender, this will take about an hour to an hour and a half. Turn up the heat a bit high to reduce the liquid as to your liking. You may use your thermal pot or slow cooker to cook this dish too.

This dish is best serve with a bowl of steaming hot rice. Yum!!

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Hope you will enjoy this recipe! Til my next post. Hasta La Vista!