I bought a jar of Lee Kum Kee Char Sui sauce from the chinese supermarket and marinated my pork for over 24 hours in it with a crushed garlic clove added as well.

Tastes nice, but nothing like the stuff you get from the chinese takeaway that's red with food colouring.

How do I get that chinese takeaway flavour?

Not exact but we did this last week, http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2...nese-pork-ribs

We boiled the ribs for 45 mins, added a extra spoon of honey the smell wasn't very nice we mixed the ribs with the marinade and it was like water even with the honey, but we will be doing this again this week

I would have not known it was not from our local takeaway, hoisin sauce was from asda the one in a bag, we marinaded the ribs for 24 hours and because the smell wasn't very nice we didn't cook anything else just incase that tasted as bad as the smell boy we were so wrong they are as good as the local and as said we will be doing this again this week, just need to find a BBQ sauce to go with them, might try this one, http://apple-of-my-eye.com/2014/07/0...y-asian-ribs/#

i bought packets of a dry rub from the chinese supermarket and they tasted just like the take away stuff

Thanks for the reply's.

Pearl, I don't think that's the flavours I'm after.

I'm talking about that shoulder pork you get from the takeaway that has that pinky purplish smoke like ring on it where it'd been marinated.

I've bought the ready made char sui sauce and made my own now but I'm not getting the right flavour.

Welly, do you have a link to that rub?

Look for a recipe for it by the lovely Ching-He Huang on the Good Food website. She did a recipe in her first tv series and I remember it looking good.


Also the Hairy Bikers did one in their Best of British series and that should be on the BBC Food website.

Going to do the ribs in the second link tomorrow i will let you know what they taste like and will take a photo.