Official guidelines have been issued to restaurants across China instructing them how to cook Mao Tse-tungs favourite meal, an unctuous dish of pork. In Mao's home province of Hunan, much of the Great Helmsman's success has been credited to his fondness for hong shao rou (red braised pork) cubes of braised pork belly glazed with caramelised sugar and Shaoxing rice wine.