Chinese Master Stock

Ingredients

• 2L water
• 1L chicken broth/stock
• 1 cup light soy sauce
• 1 cup Shaoxing or Hoa Teow wine
• 250g yellow rock sugar or 1 cup of white sugar
• 1 tbsp salt
• 6 slices ginger
• 1 head garlic clove (unpeeled and halved)
• 3 sprigs spring onion (tied into a knot)
• 2 dried shiitake mushrooms
• 1 small cinnamon stick
• 1 black/brown cardamom pod (cracked open)
• 1 tbsp fennel seeds
• 1 small knob dried galangal
• 1 pc dried orange peel
• 1 tsp Sichuan peppercorns
• 1 small dried chilli