Salt pork usually comes sold in block form as a large slab, whereas bacon is pretty much always sold pre-sliced. In this way, ...

400 to 500 grams block of pork shoulder (buta-katarosu), 2 tsp coarse salt (2 percent of the weight of meat), 1/4 tsp coarsely grated black pepper, 3 potatoes, bit of vegetable scraps 1.

This is an old-fashioned but easy Cantonese dish that uses my favourite everyday meat (pork), salted fish (which I love in all its incarnations, from bacalhau and anchovies, to the type used here ...