This Pork and Onion Stir Fry is the kind of Chinese home cooking my dad Bill grew up with.It’s a marriage of Chinese techniques and American staples like ketchup and Worcestershire sauce.The result is downright tasty and comforting with a bowl of rice!  A Simple Pork Stir-Fry  This stir-fry has minimal chopping and comes together quickly.

The hardest part is making sure your pantry is stocked with Shaoxing wine, oyster sauce, light and dark soy sauce, white pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and ketchup!  Chinese Pantry Essentials  Read more about our 10 Chinese Pantry Essentials that enable you to make hundreds of recipes like this one.  The onions and pork come out saucy and glistening, and the resulting dish is so good over steamed jasmine rice!  Chinese American Comfort Food Sometimes ketchup is used as a pejorative when it comes to Asian cooking.But in many cases, it’s not so much about a lack of “authenticity” or a sign of no effort, but rather an ingredient that was lovingly adopted into the Chinese American pantry.  My grandma (Bill’s mother) used it in her Ketchup Shrimp, a dish Sarah and I were skeptical of at first but immediately loved.It’s also a key ingredient in a Hong Kong Style Baked Pork Chop Rice!  So when we decided to make this pork and onion stir-fry, Sarah casually mentioned that I should incorporate the flavors you might find in a pan of Cantonese-style pork chops, adding extra umami from s

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