用来做东坡肉的猪肉必须是半肥半瘦的，常常切成块状。讲猪肉、醋、葱、酱、糖放入密封的砂锅内小火炖，炖煮后的猪肉变成红色，和豆腐一样柔软，但是不易碎，酥烂而形不碎，香糯而不腻口。

The pork used for this dish needs to be half fat and half lean, and it’s usually cut up into cubes.The pork is stewed along with vinegar, scallion, ginger, and sugar, in a sealed casserole pot over a low heat. The pork cooked in this way glows red, and is as soft as tofu but not fragile, glutinous but not greasy.

　　这道菜以苏东坡的名字命名，他曾贬谪杭州，也是一位伟大的诗人、文学家、书法家。他在杭州做官时，组织民工在西湖筑了一道堤，这项工程造福了杭州当地的老百姓。大家都知道苏东坡喜欢吃猪肉，当地老百姓为了感谢苏东坡，那年过春节，城里男女老少抬猪担酒来给他拜年。盛情难却，苏东坡便收下了猪肉。后来，他叫人将猪肉切成方块，烧得红酥酥的，然后按民工的花名册，挨家挨户把肉分送给他们过年。老百姓看到苏东坡不忘民工，越发爱戴他，把他送来的肉叫“东坡肉”。吃起东坡肉来更觉味道鲜美。

This dish was named after Su Dongpo, who was a governor of Hangzhou, a great poet, prose writer and calligrapher in ancient China . During his term he started a thorough dredging of West Lake, a project involving thousands of workers. This project benefited Hangzhou local people a lot. It’s no secret that Su Dongpo liked eating pork, and in order to express their gratitude the local people presented Su Dongpo with a lot of pork and Shangxing Wine (a cooking wine in Chinese cuisine) in the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year).Su Donpo knew all too well that it was the workers who truly deserved the gift, so he told his family to stew the pork and Shangxi Wine together and distributed the resulting dish to the workers. It turned out that the pork was extremely tasty, and because of Su Donpo’s kindness Dongpo Pork was widely favored by all and rapidly gained popularity.

（中国网综合 翻译 尤迎宁）

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