京酱肉丝 Pork in Beijing Sweet Sauce

Pinyin: Jīng Jiàng Ròu Sī

This dish is practically made for fresh-off-the-boat Westerners. It's sweet and has a nice juicy sauce, the meat is just meat and isn't from strange parts of the pig's body, and the meat is sitting atop some pretty benign shallots.

However, on a regular basis, or even irregular basis I can't be eating this dish too often. It really is too sweet for my Chinese adjusted palate. I ended up eating most of the shallots and just a little of the meat.

To get an idea of what this dish tastes like, think Beijing Duck, just the poor man's version, pork no duck. That's basically what this amounts to, the taste is almost identical to Beijing Duck, without the duck, and without the funny little tortilla shells to wrap everything in.