Sulong Preserved Pork

Sulong Preserved Pork

　　Sulong Preserved Pork

　　Every winter, over 200 households in Sulong Village, Changning Town, Boluo County, produce preserved meats. Since the farmers use only their own home-raised pigs and employ meticulous curing techniques, the flavor is truly unique. Their preserved meat products are not only popular locally but also well-known throughout the Pearl River Delta region.

　　Sulong Preserved Pork has long enjoyed a stellar reputation for its “sweet, fragrant, crispy, and non-greasy” taste, making it one of the finest types of preserved pork. Its distinctive texture comes from traditional farming methods. The pigs are raised for over a year on a slow-growing diet, fed cooked feed and daily servings of green forage collected from the deep mountains, and given high-quality mountain spring mineral water. The meat is then cured using traditional village techniques and air-dried in the sun and wind. It is an environmentally friendly, pollution-free food product.

　　The people of Sulong take great care in curing their preserved meats, and the recipes are never shared. Outsiders may know that the seasonings include more than ten ingredients such as fennel, star anise, sand ginger, honey, cooking wine, and light soy sauce, but no one can replicate its unique aroma and deliciously crispy flavor.

　　Types of preserved meats include: preserved pork, preserved pork head skin, preserved pork tongue, preserved pork heart, preserved pork liver, preserved pork stomach, preserved pork intestines… Almost every part of the pig, except for the blood, can be turned into preserved meat.