Vermicular | Lu Rou Fan (Taiwanese Braised Pork)

Ingredients

• 1 ½ lb pork belly, skin-on, diced into ½” cubes
• 3 shallots, finely chopped
• 6 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked overnight, stemmed and diced into ⅛” cubes
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 oz rock sugar
• ½ cup sake (or Chinese cooking wine)
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons light soy sauce
• 1 coin ginger, unpeeled
• 2 bay leaves
• ½ cinnamon stick
• 1 star anise
• 1 clove
• 1 small dried tangerine peel
• 4 hard-boiled eggs and 4 soft-boiled eggs, peeled
• Pickled mustard greens (optional)