Mao-flavored sticks are stewed meat on large bones.

Maotai-flavored sticks are the common name of northerners for sauce-flavored stick bones. They refer to the meat on the stewed large bones, which has a rich sauce-flavored flavor. The preparation method includes putting the washed large bone sticks into a pot, adding ginger slices, green onions, cooking wine and other seasonings, then adding bean paste, dark soy sauce, oil, cooking wine, water and other seasonings, and simmering for one hour on low heat. Then remove the meat, then put the bones into the pot, add sugar water, aniseed, chili, dark soy sauce, bean paste, oil, cooking wine, pepper, ginger slices, simmer over low heat for half an hour to reduce the juice.