This is an old-fashioned but easy Cantonese dish that uses my favourite everyday meat (pork), salted fish (which I love in all its incarnations, from bacalhau and anchovies, to the type used here, haam yu) and one of my favourite vegetables, lotus root.

For the Chinese salted fish, choose a thick, moist and fleshy piece, rather than a chunk that's dry and bony. The minced pork shouldn't be too lean - if there's not enough fat, the dish will be dry.

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