Best Soy-Sauce Flavoured Sauce

Ingredients:

1 C     soy sauce
1/4 C  dark or thick soy sauce
3 C     water
1/4 C  rice wine (can be replaced with white vineger)
1/4 C  sugar
1         cloves of garlic
2         whole star anise
3         large slices of ginger root
1         dried chilli peppers (can add more if you like it to be more spicy)

Method

1. Combine all the ingredients of the sauce and bring the mixture to a boil
2. Turn down to simmer and cook sauce for 10 min.
3. Now, the sauce is ready to be used to cook whatever meat or vegetable desired.

I personally prefer to cook the sauce with belly pork meat and hard boiled egg. The sauce should be covered and stored in the refrigerator or freezer after each use. After the sauce has been used several times, remove the layer of fat on the surface and replace with 1/4 cup . The flavour of the sauce improves with time and the sauce can be used over afain for months. As the sauce is used, more soy sauce of the other ingredients may need to be replenished to keep the proper balance of flavours