This is a dish that I first made on 20 October 2024. On 1 December 2024 and 8 January 2025 I made some slight modifications. This photo dates from before those modifications:

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Ingredients

quantity		ingredient		step
65 g		minced pork		1
		oil for frying		1
20 g		shallots		2
25 g		garlic paste		2
3 g (1)		Thai chili		2
22 g		hoisin sauce		3
40 g		bean sauce		3
150 ml		chicken broth		4
9 g		cornflour		4
100 g		firm dofu, cut into 1.5 cm cubes		5
5 ml		sesame oil		6
1		spring onion		7

Preparation

1. Fry pork until slightly cooked.
2. Add shallots, garlic and chili and continue to fry.
3. Add hoisin sauce and bean sauce, warm.
4. Mix cornflour in the chicken broth, add to the pan.
5. Add dofu, bring to the boil and cook for another minute or two, enough to warm the dofu.
6. Add sesame oil and mix well.
7. Add spring onion.
8. Serve with noodles or rice.

Notes

This is a recipe from The Woks of Life, a site that is only bearable with an ad blocker. The original looks like this:

So far the recipe is pretty much the same as the original. No sugar, of course, and also no white pepper. I used garlic paste instead of raw garlic, and I added a Thai chili.

Initially the ingredients included 100 ml of broth and 6 g of cornflour, but on 26 October 2025 I found this too little and increased it 150 ml/9 g, increasing the hoisin and beans accordingly. As of the last update to the recipe, I haven't tried it like that.