Ian makes a very good pork tenderloin. It's basically the $4 pork tenderloin that you get at Metro or loblaws, you make little cuts into it and you stuff the little cuts with slivers of garlic. They you cover it with olive oil and then spices like salt, pepper, paparika. Pretty white-man bland, but really good when it comes out of the oven.
So I tried to recreate it, went to chinatown and bought something that looked very similar to pork tenderloin but is actually another very similar cut that's leaner, with a very small/thin amount of fat only on one side. It's called "lau mui" i think.
I bought some lee cum kee cha sui sauce as well -- this is the key, honestly i would never try to make my own cha sui sauce, that's just crazy.
I guess it was about 1.5 lb of meat. I put it in a ceramic loaf container and cover it with cha sui sauce, grated about 1 in. of ginger, 1 tablespoon of soya sauce, grated 4 cloves of garlic. I spread the sauce/grated material all over so it's covers the meat evenly. DON'T PUT ANY SALT, the sauce is tasty enough, trust me.
Baked it for 45 mins covered with aluminum foil at 450 F. Then uncovered it and baked for 20 more minutes. I think it could have been done in 30/15. We'll give that a go next time.
I totally didn't follow ian's recipe..but it still turned out quite amazingly. Goes great with fried noodles. total meal cost = $2/person. taste like the stuff you get at a chinese bbq store.
oh yeah ...and my mom makes this too. I must have accidentally channeled my mom's cooking abilities! Thanks mom!
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