Pour water in a cooking pot then let boil. Put in dried bay leaves, whole peppercorn, star anise, leeks, sili green and 4 teaspoons of salt. Add the whole pig’s legs in the cooking pot then simmer ...

When I was a kid in the ’80s, I remember my father eating crispy pata like a Viking, gnawing at the bone, fat dripping down his chin. I would join in too, tearing off the golden pork knuckles’ skin, ...