The whole stomach was also a bit of a departure from the traditional ponce: pig stomach isn’t particularly easy to find in Chicago, and the only ones the chefs could get had already been cut open. “They sort of quilted the stomach together,” Kim says, to try to re-create what a whole stomach would look like. “It looks like some Lord of the Rings-esque grandmother made it,” Kim says. “I don’t even know if it’s all from the same pig, honestly. It could be like five stomachs.”
