Grill Maestro

I’m Chinese and when I was younger, I loved Char Siu Pork. I loved how it hung in the windows of my favorite restaurant dripping in that sweet and salty marinade. I would order it over rice and it would come, chopped, over a bed of white rice slathered with that same delicious marinade flanked by steamed broccoli. Man, that’s was the good stuff. I had no idea that was a popular style of Chinese BBQ! It wasn’t until my wife and I went to Hawaii did I realize that it had an English name, which is just the phonetic spelling of the Chinese name, and that it was hugely popular in Hawaii too.

It’s actually a southern Chinese style of barbecue and typically coal-fired BBQ of a strips of meat marinaded in honey and soy sauce. You can BBQ anything from beef to pork to sausages to chicken and everything tastes delicious!