The famous
Chinese sweet
pork sausage, lap cheong, are made in similar dimensions to the well-known
pepperoni (that is, long and thin). The
Cantonese word lap cheong is a generic term for "sausage".
Pork meat and fat from the sow is roughly chopped and combined with salt, sugar, and anise. Every cook will have her own additional recipe for the spice mix. The mixture is stuffed into narrow casings, boiled, and hung.
It is said that the ruder the look of the sausage, the better it will taste!
Lap cheong is available fresh from asian grocers, and also sliced and canned in many supermarkets.
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