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The name "oyster sauce" originated in Xiamen, and it is made in the same way as soy sauce.
Soy sauce is made from soybeans, and some people are now producing peanut soy sauce, teriyaki soy sauce, five-spice soy sauce and other "soy sauce".
And soy sauce is actually a seasoning, why are there so many different seasonings that sell so well?
Today, I will tell you what these so-called "mixed juice" seasonings are all about.
Drink to quench your thirst.
Local residents feel that tap water is delicious, followed by the fact that tap water is rich in minerals and beneficial to the human body, which is the main reason why local people drink tap water.
In Shihezi City, Xinjiang, sandstorms in the air are very serious every year.
The water quality itself is average, the locals want to be healthier, purified water is unhealthy, and the price of natural mineral water is expensive.
In a small city in Jilin, this place is mainly used to produce oyster sauce, and the local oyster sauce comes from Hong Kong.
The price of authentic Hong Kong oyster sauce is very expensive, and the market price of Jilin oyster sauce is a little more expensive, the price is 20 yuan per bottle.
However, the oyster sauce produced in this place is no different from the authentic Hong Kong oyster sauce, but the price is "a thousand miles", and the price is only 5 yuan, and many people do not understand why there is such a big price difference.
A tourist who came back from Hong Kong bought a bottle of oyster sauce locally, and compared the oyster sauce in his hand with the oyster sauce at home, and it was no different, so the locals also went up to buy oyster sauce, and finally felt that the quality of the oyster sauce was not bad, so they bought oyster sauce one after another.
However, after a period of time, after eating this oyster sauce, there was a stomachache, so the locals called the police, after investigation, everyone was shocked, it turned out that they had someone in the local area producing substandard oyster sauce, it turned out that this oyster sauce was imported from Hong Kong, but after the product had quality problems, the local factory changed the product and sold it to the expensive oyster sauce, hiding from the world.
Spice mixture.
Oyster sauce is really not the "oil" of oysters, the name of oyster sauce comes from Xiamen, Fujian Province, where an overseas Chinese opened a sauce factory.
At that time, he was going to make soy sauce, but at that time, finches happened to appear, and the local residents "pedded" them to him, and the price was very cheap, only 10 for 1 dime.
When he smelled the smell of the daffles, he suddenly felt the inspiration, so he bought this batch of finches, and they made soy sauce, when the soy sauce was left for a while, the finch clam flavor and the soy sauce flavor collided together, but produced a very good smell, he felt that the soy sauce tasted good, so he tried to add some seasoning on the basis of this batch of soy sauce.
The seasoning is salt, sugar, chicken essence, green onion, ginger and garlic are dried, so the soy sauce becomes a very good-smelling ingredient, this ingredient is used for stir-frying, after a period of time, this ingredient gradually becomes popular, and this ingredient is oyster sauce, also known as Bazhen soup.
However, after a while, the shop didn't bother to make soy sauce, so he mixed soy sauce oil and water with oyster sauce seasoning mixture, which could be used for a long time and save some money, so he made his own oyster sauce.
After the popularity of oyster sauce, others found that the production of oyster sauce was very profitable, so they also began to learn to produce oyster sauce, which gradually reduced the quality of oyster sauce and seriously deviated from the origin of the seasoning.
The multiplication of spices.
In the cities along the Yangtze River, the economy is prosperous, it used to be the "land of fish and rice", the production of soy sauce out of the two pots of soy sauce, the price is not cheap, so the economy is not rich, people rarely buy, only the "rich" can buy, so there are some urban soy sauce factories, the price of soy sauce in this soy sauce factory is relatively cheap, but the quality is not very good, so in this soy sauce factory produces a lot of impurities of soy sauce.
It is a mixture of soy sauce and oyster sauce that is produced by secondary processing, as well as some seasonings with a strong flavor, all of which are added together, and these mixtures are like some juices, so the locals call it "mixed sauce".
After eating these seasonings, everyone thought it was delicious, so they began to call it oyster sauce, and other seasonings gradually adapted their own taste to the taste of spices from other regions, and they gradually multiplied other tastes.
Authentic seasonings are concentrated, when concentrated seasonings and non-concentrated seasonings are mixed together, and then after a period of aging, a lot of color and flavor will be produced, and this texture is very unpalatable, but there are also people who will make other seasonings from it, so it will gradually produce more texture.
epilogue
The difference between soy sauce and oyster sauce is actually the difference between concentrated and non-concentrated, so even if you use other blends are very controversial, this blended seasoning is actually used to quench your thirst, although the price is much cheaper than the authentic seasoning, but in fact, there is not much affordability, and it is a very good choice to carry a small bottle of seasoning.