On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 8:52:47 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 5:39:47 PM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
> >
> > OTOH, you need 5 spice for roast pork.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr6xswgiIyA
> >
> Oh yum, a big old piece of fat meat. No thanks! My mother used to cook
> some of the most gawd awful pieces of fat meat and she's rather had that
> than lean meat. I guess that comes from being a farm girl and there was
> fat meat on the table everyday. It would just turn us kids stomachs to
> see that on the table.
>
> This brought back some unpleasant memories.

Shoulder is common for char siu pork. If you want the flavor with even
less fat, you can find recipe on the web for using loin, but that's a
lot trickier to manage since it's so lean.

Cindy Hamilton