= FILLING =

1. On a heavy skillet, add 1 tbsp of cooking oil and the minced pork over high heat. Stir the pork gently and constantly for about 4 minutes or until the pork turns slightly brown. Make sure your skillet is hot enough so you don’t lose the juice from the meat.
2. Add broth/ water and mix in the five spice powder, star anise, bay leaf, soy sauce paste, dark soy sauce, cooking wine, black pepper, and sugar. Bring to boil and simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes. Stir occasionally.
3. Grind the fried shallot with mortar and pestle into coarse powder.
4. Add fried shallot to the meat sauce after 30 mins of simmering. Add salt if necessary. Continue to simmer for another 20 minutes. Thicken the meat sauce with some corn starch.
5. Garnish with chopped scallion

= DOUGH =

1: Dough: Combine all ingredients of Ingredient 2) in a container, mix well and let it stand for 10 minutes (picture 1). Pour this yeast water mixture into the Ingredient 1), combine to form a dough. Add 2 tsp corn oil, knead for a minute (picture 2). Cover with a damp cloth and set aside in a warm place until it doubles in volume (picture 4).

2: Oil paste: Combine all ingredients of Ingredient 4) in a small container, mix well with a spoon (picture 3), cover and set aside.
 

3: Rub some corn oil onto both hands and working surface, knead the dough for a half minute.

4. Divide into 12 equal portions. Roll out each portion into an oval about 10 cm long, smooth on 1/12 of oil paste and ½ tsp chopped green onion (picture 10).

5. Roll from one end to form a cylinder shape (picture 11). Turn 90 deg. and press down.

6. Roll into a rectangle about 4 by 12 cm (picture 13). Then roll from one end to form a short cylinder. Shape with both hands into a ball (picture 14).

7. Dip the ball into the sesame seeds (picture 15), take out and turn upside down (sesame side up) (picture 16), press into a 7 cm circle (picture 17). Repeat for the next 11 portions.

8. Preheat the oven to 370F, place flatbread on parchment paper lined baking sheet (picture 18).

9. Bake for 20-22 minutes until the surface turns golden brown. Broil for 1-3 minutes if needed.

10: Serving: Slice each flatbread open, fill with 2-3 tbsp pork meat and top with some chopped cilantro, serve immediately