Char Siu Recipe Testing

I love Char Siu! That delicious boneless roast pork that you get in the finer Chinese restaurants. The cheap takeout restaurants try to make their own version which is known as boneless spareribs, but the real deal is mouthwatering life experience. You can make this at home. There are recipes on the Internet and on YouTube that will show you how to make the most wonderful Char Siu ever.

For the past couple of years I have been making a recipe that is posted on YouTube by Ci Ci Li. It is a simple easy to make recipe and the young lady in the video explains how to do it very well. I have brought the results of this recipe to work a couple of times and people have just crazed how wonderful it is.

I decided to try another recipe this week by Mike from Strictly Dumpling. His YouTube channel does a wonderful job of selling the excitement that a meal can give you he is very animated and he makes you want to make what he is making, which is a very nice talent.

The recipe can be found at: https://youtu.be/VH0X7cDJIqw

This was a hit in my house, many thanks to Mike!

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