Jessica Nguyen's Cơm Tấm (Vietnamese Broken Rice)

Ingredients

• 6 thinly cut pork chops approx. (1.5-2cm thick). If the chops are thicker than this they may not cook through properly. You can ask your butcher to cut these in half for you too which is what I did
• 6 eggs
• 3 cups of jasmine rice
• 2 Lebanese cucumbers, sliced
• Vietnamese Dipping Sauce
• 3 stalks of spring onions, finely sliced
• Generous pinch of salt
• 2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
• 1 carrot, peeled and julienned
• 1 small daikon, peeled and julienned
• ½ cup of sugar
• ½ cup of white vinegar
• ½ cup of warm water
• 1 stalk of lemongrass, outer leaves peeled
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 1 generous pinch of pepper
• 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce
• 1 tablespoon of honey
• 3 spring onion white end
• 2 tablespoons of fish sauce
• 1 teaspoon of five spice powder
• 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate soda. Optional but it tenderises the meat.
• 1 tablespoon of vodka, infused with five spice, cloves and cinnamon. If you have this leftover from my crispy pork belly recipe then you can add a bit to this which makes the meat fragrant