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Mao Zhou's avatar

I’m going through your amazing recipes and for this one you mentioned lurou. Does lurou mean donkey 🫏?

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Xueci Cheng's avatar

Hi! Lu means spice-braising here, and lurou is 卤肉 (spice-braised meat), This recipe is normally made with pork or beef!

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Mao Zhou's avatar

I thought it just meant pot braised. Thank you.

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Mao Zhou's avatar

Wow! Thanks for the quick reply! TURBO!!! When I lived in Beijing I was addicted to a place that did 驴肉。 it was braised for 72 hours with green bell pepper and served on a sort of puff pastry bun. Delicious!!!

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Xueci Cheng's avatar

Ohh it’s called 驴肉火烧 which looks similar to roujiamo, I had it once in Beijing!

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Mao Zhou's avatar

YES!! That’s it! Thank you !!

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Chris's avatar

Once again a winner of a recipe. Made this for dinner tonight and it was easy and awesome. The bread was so easy. Reminded me of making English muffins. I didn't have cilantro so I used some spicy pickled radish and that pickled mustard green that is called 'pickles for students'. Also, pork belly is so expensive where I live so I used a piece of boneless pork butt.

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Xueci Cheng's avatar

I'm happy to hear that! and thanks for sharing your tips of making this recipe!

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Jackie Shao's avatar

homemade roujiamo is the best! the first thing my husband's family makes for me when we travel back to Xian :)

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Xueci Cheng's avatar

homemade roujiamo is the best!!

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