Eating in China
A clean raw skin-on pork elbow showing its shape, skin and cut bone.

Pork elbow

猪肘Zhūzhǒu

Pork elbow cut used for slow cooking.

Type
Meat

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Pork elbow cut used for slow cooking.

In the kitchen

Slow-cooked in Tangshan wei zhouzi.

An elbow cut, distinct from belly slices.

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这道菜里有猪肘吗?

Does this dish contain Pork elbow?

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