For the sweet and sour pork, first cut the pork into 5 mm thick slices and these in turn into 1 cm wide strips. Cut the pea pods diagonally into diamonds and the carrot into 3 mm thin sticks. Finely chop the ginger, shallot and garlic. Cut the shiitake mushrooms into quarters.
Mix the soy sauce with chili sauce, a pinch of sugar, ginger, cornstarch, chicken soup and the five-spice powder.
Heat the peanut oil in a wok pan. Season the pork strips with salt as well as pepper and stir-fry in the wok. Remove the meat and keep warm.
Add the pea pods, carrots, shallots, garlic and shiitake mushrooms and stir-fry for 1 minute. Again, add the meat. Pour in the sauce mixture and bring to a boil again briefly.
Arrange pork sweet and sour in bowls.