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Origin
Jiangxi Province — Gan cuisine is one of China's lesser-known but historically rich regional traditions
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Description
Gan cuisine's (Gan cai) signature pork preparation: hong shao rou with a distinctive use of local Jiangxi dried chili and fermented black bean paste, giving the braised pork a more assertive, rustic character than Shanghai or Hunan versions. Often cooked in clay pots over wood fire.
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The Thread
—Hunan chairman's pork
—Shanghainese red-braised pork
—Korean doenjang galbijjim (fermented soybean ribs)
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Flavour Context
Rich, slightly spicy, deeply savoury pork with earthy clay-pot character
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