Eating in China
Generated guide illustration of salted pork.

Salted pork

咸肉Xiánròu

Salt-cured pork pieces with red lean meat and translucent fat in yanduxian.

Type
Meat

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Salt-cured pork pieces with red lean meat and translucent fat in yanduxian.

In the kitchen

Gives yanduxian its salty depth.

Distinct from fresh pork belly.

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这道菜里有咸肉吗?

Does this dish contain Salted pork?

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