The best substitutes for Shaoxing Wine / Chinese Cooking Wine are as follows: 1. Dry sherry– that’s right, just every day cheap and cheerful dry sherry; 2. Mirin– a Japanese sweet cooking wine. If you … 展开

Amongst all the familiar Chinese foods that we’re accustomed to in the West, you’d be hard pressed to find a single dish on a Chinese restaurant menu that does notuse Chinese cooking wine! It is … 展开

If you’ve ever made a Chinese recipe and wondered why it didn’t taste quite as good as what you get from your favourite Chinese restaurant, then Chinese Cooking Wine is probably the missing ingredient. You can get every other ingredient “right” in a stir fry sauce, but if you don’t use Chinese cooking wine, it will be missing that extra something-s... 展开

Chinese Cooking Wine usually has an alcohol content of between 15 – 20%. Because stir fries are cooked quickly, the alcohol content does not necessarily fully evaporate. However recipes only use a small amount of Chinese Cooking Wine – usually only 1 or 2 tablespoons for a stir fry that will serve between 3 to 4 people. Based on this, the amount … 展开