Speaking of braised pork rice, there are two famous braised pork rice in Chaoshan area, Dongli pork knuckle rice and Longjiang pork knuckle rice. Why is it called pork knuckle rice, not braised pork rice? That's because they are mainly famous for braised pork feet, but they buy braised pork rice the most.

Let's talk about Dongli pork knuckle rice first: Dongli pork knuckle rice is a traditional snack in Chenghai District, Shantou, Guangdong Province, which belongs to Chaozhou cuisine. The entrance is soft, rotten, slag-free, fat but not greasy, full of fragrance, rubbery but not sticky. In terms of material selection, the merchants specially selected the pig's hind feet with white and round skin, because the pig's hind feet have less lean meat than the previous feet, which is conducive to long-term boiling and meat does not come loose. Cut the pig's hind foot with a knife, and then cut it horizontally every 1 cm until the bone is broken. The marinating process of pig's feet is based on the aged bittern soup, adding some excellent raw materials such as soy sauce, rock sugar, star anise, cardamom, clove, mushrooms and garlic, boiling with strong fire, adding pig's feet, and boiling with low fire after half an hour. After about three hours, the whole pig's feet will be soaked with fragrant juice and the flesh will be soft and rotten, and then the fire will be turned off. After the marinated soup cools down, remove the lard condensed on the upper layer, then put it into a casserole. Generally, each casserole is filled with four pig feet, and then cover the mouth of the casserole with plastic wrap, and then put it in a freezer for freezing.

Let's talk about Longjiang pig's foot rice again: Longjiang pig's foot rice is a famous traditional snack in Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province, named after its origin? Longjiang town, huilai county. Its delicious taste, tender and delicious taste and the special rice of this town are combined to form Longjiang pig's foot rice, which is fat but not greasy and delicious, and is deeply loved by Guangdong people. Selection of pig's feet for Longjiang pig's feet rice. This is the top part of a pig's foot. There is lean meat in the head ring, which is generally fat, which means that it has more fat, and the pig's foot made with the head ring is relatively fat.

However, this part of the pig's foot is also relatively cheap. After excellent sauces and herbs are marinated and marinated at a reasonable temperature, the pig's foot can also remove oil and become fat but not greasy, so this part is used by most stores to make pig's foot rice.