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Pork

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Pincho Moruno from Catalunya – grilled  marinated in a special house blended spice and served with apple aioli. Essentially the kebab equivalent of a surly, reserved Moroccan army regular who canes his children for bad behaviour and goes on desert missions. Mighty filling, though. 3.4/5 This was a hosted meal,…

Special Char Siew from Char Restaurant. A life-changing, life-affirming experience, and deserving to be the locus classicus for glazed char siew. The stupendously fatty char siew has but a mere sliver of chewable flesh in each block, every other inch being unadulterated, molten sweet fat which melts on your tongue…

Roasted Pork Belly from Aloha Poké. The razor-crisp salty skin had a stickiness that would likely engage your teeth in a frenzied dance while elsewhere, each piece of the tender meat commits harakiri within your mouth and splits into more segments for your chewing pleasure, and the charred pineapple cubes…

Marinated pork loin, celeriac purée, baby carrots and onions with whole grain mustard from 999.99 Five Nines. The pork loin was well-cooked and suitably roasty with the slight toughness of a Signals NSF sergeant whilst elsewhere, the light sauce-tempered and wasabi-esque militant tang of the mustard kept the proceedings lively.…

“Ginger Beer” Pork Collar from Populus – charred ginger beer marinated pork collar, roasted butternut squash with spicy yogurt, honey coriander salsa verde, apple slaw. Essentially rugged, army Encik-esque meat coated in sour veggie camo. In manner of sin-cos-tan matters, quadratic equations and the like, the dish truly perplexes. 3.3/5…