Eating in China
Generated ingredient guide illustration of cleaned raw pork caul fat showing its thin irregular lacy fatty membrane.

Pork caul fat

猪网油Zhū Wǎngyóu

A thin, lacy sheet of fatty membrane from inside a pig’s abdomen, used to wrap food. It adds pork richness and helps keep the wrapped ingredient moist.

Type
Meat

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

A pale, delicate membrane with a visible web of fat, rather than a solid lump or a tub of rendered fat.

In the kitchen

Wrapped around fish before steaming or braising, including Sichuan gufazhengyantuan.

Distinct from rendered lard and solid pork fat; this record specifically refers to pork caul.

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