An attempt at making Sweet-Sour Pork

Ok, who am I kidding. No way I could make sweet-sour pork. But I did come up (with some help of course) with what feels like pork pieces with pineapple + sweet n sour sauce. Quite unfortunate (or fortunate) that there're no first-hand tasting, but do look at the steps taken.

We used:

Pork pieces, marinated
Flour
1 can of Pineapple cubes, drained
Lee Kum Kee Sweet n Sour sauce
1 bulb of onion, sliced

Well, first thing we dusted the pork pieces with flour.... I probably left them there for around 10 minutes.

I used a normal pot for deep frying - oil just enough to cover the pork pieces. So into the pot to fry... Apparently I was told that there are three steps to controlling the fire:
1) lotsa fire to make fry it for... 5 minutes?
2) when it feels cooked, turn down the fire to minimum... to allow oil to seep into the meat...
3) then when it's cooked enough, max fire... to whack the oil out of the pork pieces.

I did so for the second round too, but the difference was that I shortened the time taken for the 1st firing. We basically had two different bowls when we done, each done with different sauces.

the first bowl felt a bit hard to chew, while the second one wasn't that bad. I was suspecting whether it was because I didn't use any egg-white in the dusting.

So when that was done, we prepared a new pot, oil just enough to cover the surface, and in the onions went... after a few minutes, then the pineapple cubes... then, the Lee Kum Kee sauce... Stir fry... then pour over the first bowl of fried pork pieces.

The second bowl we made our own sauce - same thing with the onions and pineapples, but before that we used ketchup sauce and hot water, like 2 parts ketchup to 1 part hot water. This we poured over the 2nd bowl.

Later we felt that the first bowl seemed a little dry... like the sauce wasn't seeping into the meat. So we tossed it into the pot to cook for 20 seconds... then brought it out. I put it in a tingkat container, closed the lid and shook it furiously :D

When it was time to eat, we realised that the 1st bowl was, while being the harder to chew, had more flavour. The 2nd one had quite a bit of gravy, and primarily because of the way I fried it, and also of the ketchup sauce we used, the tanginess was stronger. But under both counts could we not taste any hint of onion.

We cooked a bit of vege to complete the dinner meal and served. Simple fare, but I thought it could have been done better.

Any thoughts? And yes, I did photoshop the picture.