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The pig's stomach, a thick muscular pouch scrubbed repeatedly with starch and salt (or vinegar) to strip its mucus, then blanched and scraped clean. Long boiling turns it tender with a satisfying chew and gives the soup a savoury depth all its own. The vessel and star of white-pepper pork tripe soup.
Nature · warming Flavour · sweet Meridians · spleen、stomach
In Cantonese food therapy it is used to strengthen the spleen, replenish deficiency and dispel cold — the 'strengthen the stomach with stomach' logic of the tradition.
Rub it over and over with starch and coarse salt (or white vinegar) to strip the mucus, then blanch it (飛水) and scrape the white membrane clean.
全國豬場飼養；亞洲市場以急凍已清洗貨為主 — Sold frozen pre-cleaned in AU (Lao Beifang 1kg ~$13 via Umall)
Common at Asian grocers · A$12.69–12.69 / kg
Lao Beifang frozen pre-cleaned pork tripe 1kg $12.69 (Umall); available in AU frozen, pre-cleaned
“The pot she makes when someone needs looking after.”
Lo Fo Tong is cultural food-heritage reference, not medical advice. If you are pregnant, unwell or on medication, talk to your doctor or registered practitioner before changing what is in the pot.