Char Siu Seasoning Paste

Name: Char Siu Seasoning Paste
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: about 2½ cups (600 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 1½ Tbsp (22 ml) Bean Sauce; 20 g Fermented Bean; about 1½ tsp (8 ml) Hoisin; about ¾ tsp (4 ml) Sesame Paste; about 2 Tbsp (35 ml) Mei Kuei Lu; about 1 Tbsp (20 g) Salt; 2½ cups (500 g) Sugar; maltose/honey to taste Honey

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Lam Yuk Ming recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Lam Yuk Ming.

MARINADE · PORK SHOULDER OR RIBS BEFORE ROASTING

In the published recipe, this is the marinade for char siu (Cantonese roast pork).

Lam Yuk Ming's char siu paste for roast pork.

On the jar

CHAR SIU

Method: blend
Yield: about 2½ cups
Ingredients: 8

Blender sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Bean Sauce 22 mlHoisin 8 mlSesame Paste 4 mlMei Kuei Lu 35 ml

Ingredients

Bean Sauce1½ Tbsp (22 ml)
Fermented Bean20 g
Hoisinabout 1½ tsp (8 ml)
Sesame Pasteabout ¾ tsp (4 ml)
Mei Kuei Luabout 2 Tbsp (35 ml)
Saltabout 1 Tbsp (20 g)
Sugar2½ cups (500 g)
Honeymaltose/honey to taste

Method

This sauce needs a blender. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Combine measured ingredients and blend until smooth.
Taste and adjust salt and acid.

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Provenance

Lam Yuk Ming. Cantonese. Cited awards include: Michelin 1* (Spring Moon, The Peninsula Hong Kong).

Adapted from a Lam Yuk Ming recipe (Lam Yuk Ming / The Peninsula cookbook (Spring Moon)).

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 Lam Yuk Ming / The Peninsula cookbook (Spring Moon) (published as “Char Siu Seasoning Paste”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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