Pipi Kaula (Hawaiian Style Jerky)

2lb Flank steak
3/4c Soy sauce
2 tb Hawaiian salt
11/2 tb Sugar
1 ea Clove garlic -- minced
1 ea Piece ginger -- crushed
1 ea Red chili pepper -- crushed(optional)

Cut beef into strips about 1 1/3 inch wide. Combine all other
ingredients and soak beef in the sauce overnight.If you have a drying
box, place the meat in hot sun for two days, bringing it in at night. If
drying in the oven, set oven to 175 degrees. Place meat on a rack such as a
cake cooking rack. Place reack on a cookie sheet and dry meat in oven for 7
hours. Keep in refrigerator.


Source: Ethnic Foods of Hawaii by Ann Kondo