Eating in China
AI-generated ingredient illustration: raw single-bone pork marrow sections cut for stock.

Pork bones

猪骨Zhūgǔ

Pig bones used as a stock ingredient; in Houan noodles, they are simmered with pork offal.

Type
Meat

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Pig bones used as a stock ingredient; in Houan noodles, they are simmered with pork offal.

In the kitchen

Broth for Houan and Gangmen noodles.

Bones are a broth ingredient rather than a substitute for the meat topping.

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