Bowl-Steamed Pork Belly

Chinese-style pork belly steamed in a bowl with pickles and chilies until tender.

Cantonese Roast Pork Belly (Siu Yuk)

Cantonese Roast Pork Belly, or siu yuk, can be found in many Chinatown restaurant windows, but with our recipe, you can make it at home!

Shanghainese Sticky Red-Cooked Pork Belly

Pork is included in almost every Chinese celebration, in which it symbolizes abundance and wealth. This glossy, aromatic pork belly is "red-cooked," or coated in a sticky soy-based reduction typical of Shanghainese cuisine. The result is sweet and savory cubes of meltingly tender meat in an aromatic sauce.

Chinese Cured Pork Belly (Cantonese Lap yuk)

This Chinese cured pork belly recipe (lap yuk in Cantonese) is truly a family treasure––my husband's family has been making it for decades.

Chairman Mao's Red Braised Pork Belly - The Woks of Life

Chairman Mao’s Red Braised Pork Belly is a famous Chinese dish with many slight variations. This recipe involves caramelized sugar, spices, and soy sauce, to create an incredibly flavorful pork belly that you'll want to make again and again.

Chinese Crispy Pork Belly

Nobody does crispy pork belly like the Chinese! The secret to the perfect, shatteringly crisp, perfectly seasoned crackling is to bake with a salt crust.

Smoked Pork Belly Marinated in Char Siu Sauce

This was, surprisingly, my first pork belly attempt but any anxiety was quickly dispelled when tasting the red-hued beauty that emerged after five hours in the smoker. The insides were moist, tender, and juicy—that's almost a given when so much fat is involved—and the outside had a great crust that held the slightly sweet and salty flavor of the char siu sauce.

Sliced Pork Belly with Spicy Garlic Peanut Sauce

This is a Sichuan dish called Suan Ni Bai Rou (蒜泥白肉) – literally translated as “garlic paste white meat.” Sliced pork belly is white before the sauce is added.

Braised Instant Pot Pork Belly

This Soy Sauce Braised Instant Pot Pork Belly results in easy, tender, and delicious pork belly, and makes for an easy meal with lots of slow-cooked flavor.

Braised Pork Belly with Meigan Cai (梅干菜焖肉)

Braised Pork Belly with Meigan Cai (梅干菜焖肉) is a well-known recipe from Shaoxing, China that many home cooks have come to know and love.