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Wash the belly with salty water & dry with kitchen towel.
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Slide pork belly into thin rectangular vertically.
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In a small bowl, mix fish sauce + sugar + water together.
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Doesn't need to be completely dissolved.
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Place pork belly slices on a frying pan.
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Put the pan onto stove, turn the heat on high.
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Without adding any excess oil.
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Leave the pan for 3 mins, afterwards you can see steam coming out from your pan.
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Let the fat sizzles and let the pan sits on heated stove for 3 more mins, until the bottom of belly starts to turn golden.
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Flip all over.
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Wait for 5 more mins until the other sides turn golden too.
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Put all the garlic in, give it another stir until the garlic start to be aromatic.
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Pour all the fish sauce mixture into the pan.
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Give it a quick and even stir.
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At first, you can see the water in the fish sauxe mix boil and evaporate very quickly while the sugar starts to caramelize.
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Wait for 5 more mins.
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or more with flipping the pork bellg from side to side for even browning.
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Until you achieve golden brown shiny slices of pork belly slices.
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The water should almost all evaporated, just a little sauce left, enough to coat the outside of every slices.
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Lastly, sprinkle black pepper on top.
