HONG KONG: The Best Char Siu in the Universe

If you’ve been to Hong Kong, or any Chinatown in the world for that matter, then you’re probably familiar with char siu. It refers to those juicy reddish-brown slices of roasted pork sweetened with a mixture of maltose, five spice powder, and other exotic ingredients.

We have a large Chinese community in the Philippines so char siu isn’t new to us. However, I’ve never been a big fan of it. A couple of slices from a cold cut siu mei platter were nice but that was the extent of it. It was never something I yearned for or even thought about.

Until I had a plate of the best char siu rice in the universe.

Char siu is exceedingly popular in Hong Kong where it’s considered by many to be a national dish. I recently spent a couple of days in Hong Kong so I scoured the internet in search of the…