Chinese slow-cooked pork

Ingredients

• 500 g lean, boneless loin of pork (with skin, tied firmly)
• 1 2⁄3 cups diluted salt-reduced or homemade chicken stock (hot)
• 2 tbsp salt-reduced soy sauce
• 2 tbsp Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
• 2 tbsp honey
• 2 garlic cloves (crushed)
• 15 g fresh ginger (peeled and finely chopped)
• 3 star anise
• 4 shallots (halved)
• 2 large carrots (peeled and sliced on the diagonal)
• 6 scallions
• 30 g dried Chinese mushrooms (soaked to rehydrate)
• 125 g oyster mushrooms (sliced or halved)
• 250 g dried flat rice noodles