This time the braised minced pork went in with pork trotters. The trotters were boiled and then pan-fried, the minced pork fried until fragrant, and then everything went into the braising pot with water, soy sauce, sugar and Cheng Chi fried shallots, to simmer gently.

Cooking braised pork at home with proper handmade fried shallots is almost impossible to get wrong. By this point the whole kitchen smells of it.