Bo Ssam (from David Chang of Momofuku)

For my birthday, I had originally wanted to go to Incanto for the Leg of Beast dinner. A week before, I changed my mind and decided to cook my own hunk of beast at home for friends and family: 10.5 lbs of pork shoulder slow roasted in the oven and served with rice, lettuce, oysters, ginger scallion sauce, hot sauce and kimchee. This meal looks complicated but it is surprisingly easy, incredibly delicious and very interactive. Guests make their own lettuce cups and because dishes are being passed around to share, it feels kind of like Thanksgiving (or when my family did “make your own spring rolls” for dinner growing up).