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no brain's avatar

Zha jiang mian is one of my favourites! You can make a really good vegan one with eggplant

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Xueci Cheng's avatar

wow that's great tip, diced eggplant could soak the sauce really well - thank you for sharing

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Marlene Wong's avatar

This is a really interesting article. I looked for years before I found what I thought was the perfect recipe, Cecilia Chiang’s in The Seventh Chinese Daughter. I look forward to trying your version(s)

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Xueci Cheng's avatar

thank you! i need to try Cecilia Chiang's version as well!

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Chris's avatar

this is a beautiful dish - one question - where does one use the ginger? I assume in the sauce because it's listed there in the ingredients, so I will put it in with the bean paste and cook it with the pork.

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Xueci Cheng's avatar

hi thanks for spotting this mistake! The ginger is added when frying the pork belly, I will adapt the recipe.

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