Item: Marinated pork for Chinese new year
Date: February 8, 2024
Location: Qingyuan, China
Rating: ★★★★★★★★★★
If there's one memorable thing about Chinese new year celebrations in my childhood, it would be the salty marinated pork meat that was exclusive to this period in my mom's hometown in rural Gangsu province. The smell and taste lingered in my memory for some thirty years and I'd recognize it right away. This year, some relatives still living in Gangsu sent us some gigantic portions of this meat that I hadn't had in almost thirty years, to share with the extended family in Qingyuan. It would not be an exaggeration to say that every bite was heavenly and brought me back to my distant childhood. I'd travel ten thousands miles just to have it again!
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