In traditional Chinese medicine, the scientific name is Big Gecko, which is a reptile in the tropics. The male's cry is like a clam, and the female's response is like a scale. With many years in the industry, he not only has rich experience in making pasta, but is also very professional in making braised vegetables. I believe that many food lovers who have studied braised vegetables will have heard of it. Spices used to season brine - gecko.
Especially for most northerners, geckos can also preserve brine for a long time, and adding geckos is an ingredient that people added in the past to preserve brine and make it sour. It is no longer needed, and some places exaggerate that geckos have medicinal effects. Even if they do, they are very small and have no effect at all. All I know is: a relative likes to make gecko wine. Every time he drinks a few sips, he thinks it is golden. He couldn't be shot. He went to prostitutes several times and his old father spent money to get him out of the labor camp. He suffered a cerebral infarction when he was over 50 years old.
There will be one called a gecko. When the gecko is processed into a finished product, the head, tail, and four legs are held up straight with bamboo sticks, the chest and abdomen are split longitudinally, the internal organs are removed, and bamboo slices are used to hold them in the shape of flat discs and dry them. Standard - Catalog Classification of Natural Spices" National Standard Number: GB/T 21725-2017. Currently, there are only 67 natural spices. Not to mention gecko, many people use it every day, or many of the spices promoted by many self-media people every day are not among them at all, which means that it is illegal as long as you use it. According to classification, there are general brine and refined brine.
What we see every day is the general category of brine, which is made with soy sauce, water (wine) and spices. Sugar may be added, but the amount is not too much. The refined brine is designed for the famous Cantonese dish "Soy Sauce Chicken" and uses two parts of soy sauce. It is made of bay leaves, sand ginger, cinnamon, Amomum villosum, sugar color, etc. The braised pork, braised eggs, and braised vegetables we usually eat are all made of brine. The method of brine is different for different ingredients. In brine The spices used are also different. Many braised food restaurants reuse the brine.