Taiwan Pork Chop / 台式滷排飯

Ingredients:

• 600g pork loin / 6pcs pork loin with 1cm thickness (cut tendons around the pork loin)

For marinating pork loin:

• 1tbsp garlic paste
• 2tbsp soy sauce
• 1tbsp rice wine
• 1tbsp sugar
• 1/4tsp five spice powder / ngohiong powder
• a little white pepper
• 2tbsp water
• 2tsp cornstarch

For dipping pork loin:

• 2pcs whole garlic (smashed)
• 2pcs star anise
• 2pcs green onion (long cut)
• 100ml soy sauce
• 2tbsp sugar or more
• 500ml water

For frying pork loin:

• sweet potato flour
• oil for frying

Side dish: 

Marinating radish and carrot

• 500g radish (long cut)
• a little carrot (long cut)
• 1/2tsp salt
• 100ml white vinegar
• 100g sugar

To-do:

1. Cut tendons/muscle around the pork loin and flap both side to make it tender.
2. Mix well pork with prepared marinating sauce (except cornstarch).  Add cornstarch and mix well or until no white color seen. Marinating the pork loin in the fridge for 1 hour to overnight. 
3. Now prepare the pork loin sauce. Heat saucepan and add a little oil. Fry garlic, star anise and green onion until fragrant and a bit golden brown. Add soy sauce and sugar and mix well. Boiled in low heat for 30seconds. Add water and let it boil in medium heat for 1 minute. Then change to low heat, cover the lid and let it boil for 10 minutes. And the sauce is ready to dip.
4. For frying pork loin, cover the pork loin with prepared sweet potato flour two sides and pat with hands to make the flour stick better to the meat. Put it on side for 10 minutes. Then fry with hot oil in medium high heat. Wait until the pork golden brown or around 1,5 minutes then flip over. 
5. Wait until the fried pork loin cool and then can dip into prepared dipping sauce (re-heat the sauce and turn off the heat before dipping) for around 5 minutes.
6. For side dish: Add white vinegar, sugar and cook until boiled. Let it cool. In another bowl, mix radish and carrot with 1/2tsp salt, massage until soft and wait until the water comes out. Throw the excessed water and then soaked the sauce with radish and carrot in the fridge.