Differences from the Chinese Dongpo Pork 东坡肉:

The meat of Dongpo Pork is usually cooked with spices like star anise and five-spice powder

Authentic Dongpo meat is served with sweet and rich Chinese soy sauce (Laochu).

It is often fried or steamed as well as boiled.

For Dongpo Pork, only pork ribs (with the skin) are cooked.

The name Dongpo meat derives from the name of Su Dongpo, a poet of the Northern Song dynasty in China.

It is said to have originated from the fact that Su Dongpo, involved in a political conflict and demoted, recited a poem about living a quiet life, eating a lot of cheap pork in Hwangzhou, where he was exiled.