"Red-cooking usually means stewing with soy sauce at a low
simmer, with the addition of such ingredients and flavorers as
sugar, ginger, sherry, and star anise.  It is one of the simplest
as well as one of the most effective ways of cooking meat, with
almost foolproof results.  So long as the heat is kept low during
the slow-simmering, one can hardly go wrong.  Red cooking
lends itself to many meats especially pork and chicken.  Filipino
Adobo is a type of "red cooking"...just not so red.