Hey Mark, Thanks for the tips. > > Five Spice powder is your friend. Are you using a salt cure or a > salt/sugar cure? I normally use a salt/sugar cure. I like using different sorts of sugar, jaggery, piloncio, palm etc. > > I would go for one of Len Poli's recipes. This guy has roadtested all > his recipes out the wahzoo so you can be sure its a winner! > > http://lpoli.50webs.com/index_files/Bacon-Chinese.pdf Cool! > > Instead of the Sichuan pepper I would sub some apple smoked hab powder > in the same quantity. Sounds interesting. :-) I haven't tried Sichuan pepper in a bacon cure yet, I have a bunch of the stuff so I may try that first. Regards, Jose >