skilled at smoking meat and making sausage, stands on the balcony of her home, facing a heap of air-dried bacon. She strikes a pose etched into the collective memory of the Chinese people.

GEORGE TOWN: For this second-generation family shop, grilling 200kg of bak kwa (dried meat) daily is just “business as usual” come every Chinese New Year. “We grill about 200kg of meat from ...

It's a lot of work, though, and I won't blame you if you decide to ask the butcher to put the meat through the grinder. Buy a whole dried cuttlefish, not the shredded type sold as a snack ...

Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has found contaminants in nearly half of 30 dried meat ... has been banned in food-producing animals in different regions such as mainland China, the European ...

Chefs Lee Zhe Xi and Soh Yong Zhi previously experimented with making bak kwa for dishes at Eat and Cook, but this ...