CHINESE New Year dishes are often perceived to be time-consuming and require a joint effort from every family member.
But when you discover a shortcut, it makes perfect sense to prepare a complicated dish by eliminating a few difficult steps.
‘Woo tau kau yoke’ is a traditional Hakka meatloaf.
For anyone who has ever made woo tau kau yoke, a Hakka dish that involves frying seasoned pork belly in hot oil then steaming it for a few hours, that first step of preparing the pork can be substituted with store-bought roast pork.
The seasoning for roast pork is essentially salt and five-spice powder, the exact same flavouring as the marinade for the fried pork.