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Pork Spareribs
- A repeated row of rib bones
- Meat and some fat attached to bone
- Sold as slab or chopped pieces
Meat
Pork Spareribs
Common pork spareribs with a series of rib bones and attached meat, sold as a slab or chopped sections.
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3 identity clues
- A repeated row of rib bones
- Meat and some fat attached to bone
- Sold as slab or chopped pieces
Names in other languages
- 繁體中文
- 排骨
- English
- Pork Spareribs
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Iga babi (排骨)
- Tagalog
- Tadyang ng baboy (排骨)
Name in Cantonese (Jyutping): paai4 gwat1 No Cantonese voice on this device
What is it?
排骨 is the general Hong Kong market term for pork ribs; specify slab, chopped pieces and size.
How to identify it
Look for a sequence of rib bones joined by pink pork; chopped pieces show bone cross-sections. Do not treat an intact Yat Zi strip or meatier loin ribs as the same request.
Common confusion
Compare
Pork Loin Ribs
- Thicker pork over the ribs
- Ribs remain parallel
- Cut face shows meat, fat and bone
- One intact elongated uncut strip
- Several parallel ribs remain joined
- Meat connects the bone row
How to identify it
Spareribs are the general rib request; loin ribs are meatier, while Yat Zi Paai stresses an intact elongated market strip.
Common Hong Kong household uses
Confirm the dish, quantity and cut with the employer before preparation, then cook thoroughly.
Choosing & preparing
Keep raw meat separate from cooked food, use separate boards and knives, wash hands and contact surfaces, and cook the centre to at least 75°C for 30 seconds.
Storage
Keep covered on the lowest refrigerator shelf at 4°C or below and thaw frozen meat only in the refrigerator or microwave. Contain a leaking package and clean contaminated surfaces; leakage alone is not used here as a spoilage test.
Helper tip
Confirm the chop size; do not substitute generic spareribs when the employer specifies 腩排 or 一字排.
What Ma’am or Sir may say
買一斤排骨，斬細件。The employer wants one catty of spareribs chopped small.
Useful market phrase
唔該要一斤排骨，斬細件。Meaning: One catty (斤) of Pork Spareribs, chopped into small pieces, please.
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Sources (6)
- Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department — Public Market Items - Pork
- Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department — Pork Cantonese pinyin
- Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department — Public Market Items Multilingual Booklet
- Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety — Safety Tips on Handling Pork
- Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety — Prevention of Cross-contamination
- Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department / Centre for Food Safety — CFS COOK REHEAT