Dinner last night. Daughter made the sushi rolls. Tuna and spicy tuna. I made the pork and chicken dumplings, the scallop shao mai, and ribs. My pleating is rusty!
The ribs are pork, first pressure cooked for 1 hour in rice wine, water, ginger, salt, pepper. Save the broth. Then I toss them in 2/3 sugar 1/3 salt, and bake about 1/2 hr in the oven to dry and brown. Finally, put about 1/4 - 1/2 cup of the broth and 1/2 Tbsp oil into a pan, mix in a little corn starch to get the mix slightly thicker, add minced garlic, ginger and scallion, and cook the ribs, tossing to coat in the "sauce" but gently to not knock off the crust formed in the oven. This multi step cooking doesn't take as much effort as it sounds like, and produces ribs that have a tasty coating, a crusty outside, and a falling apart interior.