• Place the ground pork, garlic, onion or shallots, ground pepper and bay leaf in a shallow cooking pan.
• Pour the Canola cooking oil over. Because of the leanness of the pork, I dont want the meat to turn dry so the purpose of adding cooking oil is to help it retain its succulence.
• Pour in the vinegar and cook over medium-high heat until the vinegar starts to boil.
• Stir, breaking up the meat.
• Pour in the soy sauce and stir well.
• Cover and simmer for about 10 minutes.
• Add the sitaw (string beans), stir, cover and simmer for another 10 to 15 minutes or until the(string beans)sitaw is tender.
• The water from the sitaw, the natural juices of the pork, the vinegar and the soy sauce are usually enough to cook everything without the dish becoming too dry.
• If it looks like either the Sitaw or Pork meat is taking too long to cook, you can add about 1/4 cup of water.When both the pork and the sitaw are tender, transfer them to a serving plate.
• Garnish with chopped cilantro and sprinkle with red pepper flakes.
• Serve hot with Rice

Note: Red pepper flakes are available in the dried herbs section of most supermarkets.