In my 27th year of life, I’m attempting to do 27 new things. Full list here.
Spicy Pork Belly Sliders
I thought this would be a little more adventurous than it turned out to be. Don’t get me wrong, it was delicious. It just wasn’t as exotic or exciting as some of my other culinary adventures (fermented shark head.) Turns out pork belly is just a type of pork. Bacon is typically cut from pork belly. It’s fatty, and it’s delicious.
Pork Belly is used in a lot of Chinese and Korean cooking. So I went to a tapas style Korean restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen called Danji. My pork belly came in slider form with scallions, cucumber julienne, and gochujang, which is a Korean red chile paste. I also got an unfiltered rice beer, which turned out to taste like carbonated sake.
The sliders were delicious! I love my food spicy, and this did not disappoint. Perhaps that was my failing, it was so spicy, I didn’t get to pay too much attention to what the pork belly tasted like.
Even if it wasn’t the craziest food item I’ve ever eaten, I liked it a lot and will definitely order it again.
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I’ve seen the pork belly getting butchered by my Dad to make into bacon — and ate the delicious result — from our own pigs! Those do sound yummy, too, though. Haha.