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Char siu is an ancient Cantonese pork-roasting technique featuring long strips of meat marinated in a spicy-sweet sauce. It’s a common cold-case item in Asian supermarkets, but this version blows that clamshell-encased piggy right out of the water. Think tender, melt-in-your-mouth meat, slowly cooked sous vide to develop incredible flavor and texture, then quickly finished on the grill for a hit of smoke and char. We tend to mix up our own marinades in the ChefSteps kitchen, but we were such fans of the results we got with Lee Kum Kee’s Char Siu Sauce (available <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001DMTM8/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0001DMTM8&linkCode=as2&tag=chefsteps02-20&linkId=f60ef232fe90e6be6a08269a80b2a2ef">on Amazon</a>) that we decided a little shortcut was in order. Keep a bottle of that delicious stuff on hand, and you will have a foolproof centerpiece dish that requires very little effort but will still be the star of the potluck, book club gathering, or tailgate. Stress-free and totally tasty? See, this is why we fell in love with the whole sous vide thing in the first place.