The 12345 ratio for Fish-Scented Shredded Pork Sauce is 1 tbsp cooking wine , 2 tbsp soy sauce, 3 tbsp sugar, 4 tbsp vinegar, and 5 tbsp water.

Shredded Pork with Fish Scent was created by a Sichuan chef during the Republican era, and is rumored to be inspired by shredded pork with pickled peppers. The name of the dish, Shredded Pork with Fish Scent, was formed during the Anti-Japanese War and finalized by Chiang Kai-shek's Sichuan chef in Chongqing (today's Yuzhong District). In the beginning, shredded pork with fish and pepper was prepared with only ingredients such as green onion, ginger, garlic and meat.

Shredded pork with fish flavor is savory, sweet and sour, with a strong aroma of green onion, ginger and garlic, and its flavor is made from seasonings, which originated from the Sichuan folk's unique method of cooking fish for seasoning, and is now widely used in Sichuan-style cooked dishes.

Origin of Fish Scent Shredded Pork:

Legend has it that a long time ago there was a business family in Sichuan, and their family loved fish, and they were very particular about the seasoning, so they had to put some onion, ginger, garlic, wine, vinegar, soy sauce, and other deodorizing seasonings to increase the flavor when they burned the fish.

One night when the lady of the house was frying another dish, she put all the leftover ingredients used in the last fish cooking in this dish in order not to waste the ingredients, at that time she thought that this dish might not taste very good, and the man in the house might not be able to explain it well when he came back, and she was in the middle of a fretting moment when her husband came home from his business.

This husband I do not know is the reason why the belly hungry or feel this bowl of food special, and he did not wait for the opening of the meal on the hand grabbed to the mouth, not waiting for a minute, he couldn't wait to ask his wife this dish is made with what she was just in the stuttering, she accidentally found her husband praised the flavor of the dish, her husband saw her did not answer, and then asked a: so delicious is made with what.

That's how the wife told him all about it. And this dish is used to roast fish ingredients to stir fry and other dishes, only its flavor, so the name of the fish fried, and get this name.

Later this dish after a number of years of Sichuan people to improve, is now early in Sichuan recipes, such as fish-flavored pork liver, fish-flavored shredded pork, fish-flavored eggplant and fish-flavored shredded pork. Nowadays, the unique flavor of this dish makes it popular among people from all over the country.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Fish-Scented Shredded Pork