{"id":88,"date":"2009-11-06T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2009\/11\/06\/ethnic-eating-experiment-day-4"},"modified":"2009-11-06T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:35:00","slug":"ethnic-eating-experiment-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2009\/11\/06\/ethnic-eating-experiment-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic Eating Experiment &#8211; Day 4: Chinese five spice pigs&#8217; trotters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Chinatown, where this little piggy lost his feet.<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X_iPEBvNtH0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Five spice trotters<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Serves 2<\/p>\n<p>3 trotters, washed thoroughly<br \/>\n2 tablespoons Chinese five spice<br \/>\n1 clove garlic, peeled and thinly sliced<br \/>\n1 thumb of ginger, peeled and sliced<br \/>\n3 tablespoons cider vinegar<br \/>\n3 tablespoons soy sauce<br \/>\n1 litre water (I know I say a pint, but I ended up adding more. cheeky)<br \/>\n4 pak choi, divided and washed<br \/>\n1 packet Shanghai noodles<br \/>\nOyster sauce<br \/>\nOil, salt and pepper<\/p>\n<p>Heat a little oil over a medium heat and brown the trotters on all sides.<\/p>\n<p>Add the five spice and toss to coat all the meat thoroughly, then add the garlic, ginger, vinegar, soy sauce and water. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer for an hour and a half.<\/p>\n<p>Remove the trotters to rest and bang up the heat, reducing the cooking liquor until sticky. Meanwhile stirfry the pak choi and noodles with a little oyster and soy sauce. Serve with the trotters, along with a generous tickle of the cooking sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I meet the Iranian John Torode. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-88\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">0<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">0<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Chinatown, where this little piggy lost his feet. Five spice trotters Serves 2 3 trotters, washed thoroughly 2 tablespoons Chinese five spice 1 clove garlic, peeled and thinly sliced 1 thumb of ginger, peeled and sliced 3 tablespoons cider vinegar 3 tablespoons soy sauce 1 litre water (I know I say a pint, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[294,792],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zdji-1q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}