Season the meat with 2 tbsp. salt and 2 tbsp. cracked pepper. insert pcs of garlic cloves inside the meat. drizzled it with soy sauce, place the lemon grass in the middle of the meat, start to rolled it round, and trust it tightly with a twine.

Wrapped the rolled meat, with a cloth, and set aside.

In a big pot or a casserole, enough to submerge the whole meat in a stock. On a medium heat, roast the bay leaf, whole black peppercorn, and star anise together until the scents arise, filled the water, pour 2 tbsp. salt, soy sauce, add the cut onions, submerge the wrapped meat and simmer it for in about 45 minutes with a close lid. Set the heat to a medium and continue simmering it for about 20 minutes.

Off the simmering, take out the meat from the pot, remove the cloth, set it aside into the roasting metal sheets with a wire rack, rest for a bit

Slowly pour the very hot oil into the skin of pork belly