Black Vinegar Pork Trotter

I loved vinegar but have weak stomach so can only taste some occasionally.  There's lots of articles showing that vinegar is actually good for health so even though I have a weak stomach I still like to take the risk sometimes ha...

Very simple steps and just few ingredients and you will be able to taste a nice bowl of sourish fragrant black vinegar trotter!

Ingredients:
1 bottle of Black Rice Vinegar (Chan Kong Thye brand 双料type if you're Singaporean)
1 Pig Front Trotter (less fat) and get Butcher to chopped into desired size
300g Old Ginger
200g Young Ginger
2 slices of Sugar Cane Sugar 冰片糖 (can get from any medical hall)
10 Garlic Cloves
10 stalks of Dried Red Chilli (soak in water for a while)
Water
* Optional to add few hard boil eggs (with shell) too if you like vinegar eggs

Method:

• Boil pig trotters in water for 10 minutes.  Remove, drain and rinse clean.
• Pour 1 bottle of black vinegar, use the vinegar bottle to measure 2 bottles of water and add into the pot.  Smack the gingers and put into the pot, throw in the Garlic, dried red chilli and sugar cane sugar into the pot and bring to boil for 30 minutes.
• Add in pig trotters to the pot of vinegar and continue to boil it for 1 hour.
• Taste vinegar and see if you like it to be slightly more salty or sweet and adjust seasoning on your own).
• Add in hard boil egg and continue to cook for another hour and serve!