I first encountered this Pork Sauce Rice 肉臊飯 as a snack. It was in a Taiwan night market where I guess there were close to a hundred hawker food stalls. Although it had been ages, I could still recall that my portion of rice was served in a saucer-like bowl with a thin layer of meat sauce poured over it.

That it was a snack, how could I doubt?!

But the taste was amazingly impressive and uniquely Taiwanese. Now I am also in love with my version which I serve in a larger amount as a simple one-dish meal.

I cook this with rice barn oil but if you want yours to come closer to the Taiwanese style, just replace the oil with lard or use diced pork belly than ground pork. Besides, you may also want to serve this with a few pieces of fried tofu or hardboiled eggs as some Taiwanese eateries do.

For a quick meal with vegetable, you may even try multiplying the sauce here and use it for braising a simple dish like this.

• Ingredients
• 200g ground pork
• 2-3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 2-3 cloves shallot, finely sliced
• 1 tsp finely chopped ginger
• 1 tbsp cooking oil (I used rice barn oil)
• 1 sprig spring onion, finely sliced
• 2 bowls cooked rice

• Sauce
• 1 tsp dark soy sauce
• 1 tsp light soy sauce
• 1 tsp rice wine
• 1 tbsp rock sugar
• 1 cup water

• Marinades for pork
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/8 tsp ground white pepper
• 1/4 tsp corn flour
• 1 tsp oil