Emperor's Pork Glaze

Name: Emperor's Pork Glaze
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 1¼ cups (280 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: ½ cup dark soy (120 ml) Dark Soy; ½ cup sweet soy (120 ml) Sweet Soy; 3 tbsp cornstarch slurry (45 ml) Cornstarch

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Buddha Lo recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Buddha Lo.

GLAZE · PORK & ROASTED MEATS

In the published recipe, this is the glaze for emperor's pork.

Lo's dark soy-rock sugar glaze for emperor's pork.

On the jar

EMPEROR'S

Method: stove
Yield: about 1¼ cups
Ingredients: 3

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Dark Soy 120 mlSweet Soy 120 mlCornstarch 45 ml

Ingredients

Dark Soy½ cup dark soy (120 ml)
Sweet Soy½ cup sweet soy (120 ml)
Cornstarch3 tbsp cornstarch slurry (45 ml)

Method

This sauce is cooked on the stove. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Cook ingredients gently according to the published technique, adapted here as pantry quantities only.
Finish off heat; adjust seasoning.

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Provenance

Buddha Lo — published sauce recipes in the PantryFlex catalog. Top Chef winner S19 (2022); Top Chef winner S20 World All-Stars (2023).

Originally published as Emperor's Pork Glaze (soy–rock sugar).

Adapted from a Buddha Lo recipe (Buddha Lo / Food & Wine (emperor's pork)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Buddha Lo / Food & Wine (emperor's pork) (published as “Emperor's Pork Glaze (soy–rock sugar)”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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