Stir-Fried Pork and Chinese Olives on Rice

It has to be peppery to be good.

With Thai grocery stores in Chicago having been so good in recent years at getting once-hard-to-find items from Thailand, I haven’t had to haul back as many pantry items as I used to every time I visited Bangkok. I can now find all the basic pantry ingredients I need here. I can find the once-elusive fermented fish innards, tai pla, that I need for my s…