humba

noun1

1. •
   A Filipino braised pork dish from the Philippines especially popular in the Visayas, traditionally made with fatty cuts of pork belly slow-cooked until very tender in soy sauce, vinegar, peppercorns, garlic, bay leaves, and fermented black beans (tausi) sweetened with muscovado sugar, and also commonly including hard-boiled eggs and banana blossoms.

   • A most sought-after “correct” humba has the skin jelly-soft, with the fork-tender meat swimming in its own fat. — 2014