Lightly sear the pork skin in a hot pan to get rid of any hair. Some people use tweezers, but this is much easier. Add pork, one spring onion/scallion, half the ginger and half the Shaoxing wine ...

Pork Hock, also known as Chinese braised pig's trotters ... or used as an ingredient in other recipes, such as bao buns or ...

I cook the ingredients in a stove-to-table Chinese clay pot (also called a sand ... I like to flavour the pork with a lot of ginger. Cut the rhizome into strips about the same size as the white ...

This Japanese adaptation of the Chinese dish char siu is seasoned with sugar, sake and dark soy sauce and braised at a low temperature ... Place the pork into a small deep roasting tin.

Season the pork shoulder generously with salt and pepper ... Reheat if necessary and serve over polenta. Recipe courtesy of Cook This Now by Melissa Clark/Hyperion, 2011.