Guobaorou

Guobaorou is a northeastern Chinese dish of battered pork slices finished with a sweet-and-sour sauce. DayDayCook’s own preparation uses thinly sliced pork tenderloin, coated with an egg-white and cornstarch batter. The meat is fried once to set the coating, then returned to hotter oil for a second frying that browns the surface.^[1]

For the sauce, that recipe combines sugar, salt, light soy sauce and white vinegar. Ginger, carrot and coriander are cut into thin pieces, with an onion-family aromatic also included. They are briefly stir-fried before the pork and sauce are tossed together and transferred to a plate. The two frying stages and the final sauce coating are separate parts of this preparation.^[1]