Recreating Macau’s Tamarind Pork Stew (or is it a curry?)

Date: 2025-07-12 00:39:31

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Recreating Porco Balichão Tamarindo! A tasty stew that really changed the way I look at food, and is definitely worth preserving.

0:00 – The Endangered Macanese Cuisine
1:59 – WTF is going on with Tamarind Pork
6:02 – Working with Historical Recipes
10:24 – Making the Stew
15:08 – Serving
16:14 – Making Pressed Rice
17:14 – More Macanese Resources

FULL, WRITTEN RECIPE

Is over on the Substack! Free as always, if it had to be said:

https://chinesecookingdemystified.substack.com/p/recreating-macaus-tamarind-pork-porco

GUILLY’S RECIPES

As I discussed in the outro, Guilly’s recipes are over here. Fantastic stuff, super fun collection – more on that in the pinned comment:

https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/portuguese/uiguilly.htm

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Outro Music: คิดถึงคุณจัง by ธานินทร์ อินทรเทพ
Found via My Analog Journal (great channel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHaL5H-VYRg&t=896s