oriental bbq pork skewers?

Cantonese Barbecued Pork

3 to 4 pounds boneless pork: cut into strips 1/2 inch thick and 2 inches wide. If you slice these about 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick, they can be cooked over a barbecue in about 15 minutes, and eaten right off the stick.

Marinade (mix in a bowl)

2 tsp minced garlic
3 tbsp sugar
5 tbsp black soy sauce (substitute half and half molasses and regular soy sauce)
1/3 cup hoisin sauce
1/2 cup Chinese Shaosing wine or pale dry sherry
2 tbsp ground bean sauce

Glaze (mix in a bowl)

2 tbsp honey
2 tsp sesame seed oil
3 tbsp thin soy sauce.


1.) Put pork strips in a pan. Spoon marinade over pork evenly, and refrigerate for 8 hours or more. Turn pork from time to time. (I marinate in a zip lock)
2.)Preheat oven to 375 degrees
3.) spear pork strips lengthwise with skewers and put them directly on an oven rack. (If it is a gas oven, put rack in the middle of the oven. If electric, put rack in upper part of oven.) Put a big pan with 1/2 inch of cold water on bottom of gas oven or on lowest rack of electric oven to catch the drippings and prevent them from smoking. Roast for 20 minutes. Turn skewers and roast for another 20 minutes.
4.) Generously brush upper side of pork strips with the glaze, catching the drippings with a plate. Roast strips for 5 minutes. Turn skewers and glaze the other side of pork in the same manner. Roast another 5 minutes. Turn off heat.
5.) Remove barbecued pork from the skewers, cut into thin slices, brush slices with remaining glaze if there is any, or the drippings you caught on the plate while glazing. Serve hot, warm, or cold

I think you're referring to satay? To make them, get thai or malay satay marinating sauce from your local asian food market. Marinate the pork in the sauce; soak some wooden skewers and fire up the bbq. You might want to serve the skewers with diced pineapples and cucumbers and satay sauce with chopped peanuts.

They can be made of bamboo, coconut palm leaf (spine), or just plain wood; except for coconut palm source and bamboo, it would be impractical to carve them out from wood as they are mass machined.

Depends on the seasoning. Could be Japanese yakitori or similar dishes, usually teriyaki sauce or miso flavored. Another possibility is satay from South East Asia, which is seasoned with stuff like lemongrass, coriander, galangal etc and served with a peanut sauce. Satay is usually sweetish while the peanut sauce is slightly spicy. All these Asian style meat skewers can be really made with any meats, there's satay from beef, mutton, duck & even inner organs. You can easily find recipes on the internet, though some are Westernised. For example, I would be suspicious of peanut sauce recipes that call for peanut butter!