Somen Salad with Pork Belly Char Siu

Ingredients

• 2 pounds pork belly skinless, cut into two thick strips
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 1/2 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 2 tablespoons hoisin
• 4 tablespoons mirin sweet cooking rice wine
• 1 tablespoon soybean paste
• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
• 1/2 tablespoon kosher salt
• 2 cloves garlic finely minced or grated
• 1 teaspoon five spice Chinese
• 1 star anise
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup low sodium chicken broth
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons sesame oil
• 1/4 cup mirin
• 1/2 savoy cabbage thinly julienned
• 1 handful watercress coarsely chopped
• 12 ounces somen noodles cooked, rinsed w/cold water, and drained
• 1/2 pound char siu pork belly, thinly sliced
• 1/4 pound kamaboko fishcake, julienned
• 4 Persian cucumbers thinly julienned
• 3 carrots medium, thinly julienned
• 1 handful long green beans julienned
• 2 eggs fried into thin omelets, then thinly sliced
• 3 stalks green onions thinly sliced