Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2007, America's Test Kitchen TV
Char siu is usually bought from stores and restaurants that specialize in such meat dishes, but our version is actually "barbecued" in the oven, making these lacquered strips of pork easier to make at home than they might seem.
For a Chinese barbecued pork recipe inspired by char siu, we started by slicing a boneless pork butt into strips. Our marinade of soy sauce, sherry, hoisin sauce, five-spice powder, sesame oil, ginger, and garlic introduced deep complexity,...