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Braised Pork With Quail Eggs & Bamboo Shoot

This dish is a combination of meat, egg, and vegetable. It’s actually an updated version of braised pork (红烧肉 Hong Shao Rou).

  1. Boil quail eggs in hot water for 5 mins. Soak them in ice cold water immediately. Then remove the egg shell.
  2. Heat a pan. Sear Pork chunks. Pork belly is the best choice. Fry pork till fat comes out and turns a bit brownish.
  3. Add bamboo shoot slices in and stir fry a bit with pork.
  4. Drizzle in 1 tsp cooking wine, 1 tsp light soy sauce, 1/2 tsp dark soy sauce, 1 tsp sugar, ginger slices and bayleaf. Pour in enough hot water to cover all the ingredients.
  5. Also add in quail eggs. Lid on and simmer with low medium heat for 20-30 mins.
  6. turn up the heat and reduce the sauce.

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Serve hot.

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Sauce is perfect to go with rice. My husband will always add sauce to his rice.

Quail eggs are also tasty.

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Easy & Yummy Quail Egg

First, boil quail eggs in boiling water for 5 mins. 

Then take them out and soak in cold water.

After they are completely cool, Gently remove the shell. 

Put quail eggs in the plate. Next step is to prepare sauce.

Heat pan on stove. Add in a little tsp oyster sauce, light soy sauce, sugar and water. Keep stirring till sauce becomes very condensed. You can taste the sauce before serving. If it’s salty, add a little more sugar. 

Pour the sauce over quail eggs.


It just became one of my husband’s favorite dishes.