Cooking wine - Shaoxing wine and Chinese rice wine, I have used them both
Shaoxing Wine 紹興酒, taken at Puli 埔里 - Nantou county 南投 , Taiwan
I guess most of you, who cook, keep a bottle of cooking wine at home or your kitchen pantry, either it's (colorless) rice wine or (mellow yellow) Shaoxing wine, even dry sherry. Drizzle over while a fish steams, or make a dish such as Drunken Prawns or Shrimps. Season or marinate meat such as pork in cooking wine- sometimes touted as a way to "rid the fowl smell" in pork and additionally bring out the good natural flavor of pork. I even substituted white wine with Shaoxing wine to make my linguine vongole (Chinese-style) which does not taste any worse than that cooked in dry white wine such as Pinot Grigio.
Shaoxing wine (a grade of yellow liquor) is named after a famous wine making city of the same name in China. This type of alcoholic beverage is brewed directly from grains such as rice, millet, or wheat and is not distilled. These wines are traditionally pasteurized, aged, and filtered before being final bottled for sale. Taiwan also produces many types of Shaoxing 紹興酒 rice wine, and Puli locates one of Taiwan nationally owned Shaoxing Wine factory. Puli is famous for its four 'W's - water, wine, women and weather. This post is about wine, not women. Sorry guys. :P
Taiwan Chinese Sausage 香腸 (literally meaning, fragrant sausage) is famous, ya? This variety of sausage is emulsified and much sweeter in taste.
Guess what? This is a Chinese sausage marinated with lots of Shaoxing wine- Shaoxing Fragrant Sausage - 紹興香腸!
Well, this is what you get in a "Shaoxing" Wine Town in Puli. Everything has Shaoxing wine in them. Ice-cream, mochi, and even eggs!
This is Shaoxing wine aroma egg. Comes in vacuum-packed like this -
Looks harmless and just like a typical hard-boiled egg BUT BUT BUT oh my, this is so strong in alcohol taste. The entire yolk has been infused with alcohol (Shaoxing wine, what else?!) flavor. So strong that we did not really enjoy it. The sausages were much much better!
Recipes with cooking wine as ingredient (as seasoning or marinade) :
White pepper braised noodles
Stuffed mushrooms
Steamed cod fish rolls
Pan fried fish fillet in soy sauce and ginger
Warm fusili salad with wine-steamed shrimps
Tag: taiwan eating, cooking wine, shaoxing wine
27 comments:
i love using both types of wines in my cooking! Didnt know that taiwan sausages r marinated in that!
I love using shaoxing wine in almost anything I cook, to marinate meats, in my eggs, soup.. etc. Yes, it also became a substitute when I ran out of white wine for my pasta, and it did taste good as well.
cool food! I've never used shaoxing wine before but I would love to try!
I am a sucker for Shaoxing wine, it is the best! I shall try adding Shaoxing next time if I run out of white wine for my pasta :D
I like visiting your blog, although it always make me drool!! :P
Interesting 'ShaoXing' eggs.
I'm not a herbivore :P My mom's the one. I will not do w/o meat!! LOL~
Thanks for your birthday wishes :) It's tmr.
So were you drunk after eating that egg? Did you taste the ice-cream too? I love using chinese cooking wine but to drink it like that...yucks!
this looks like heaven to me!
Since I don't cook, I don't have any of the wines at home. But I do have a bottle of sesame seed oil that I love. Sometimes, I add a drop of it on store bought soups or veggies, and it takes the dishes up a notch.
I can't imagine eating a Shaoxing egg. *makes a face*
I used Shaoxing in my cooking too. Taiwanese love to add in rice wine which I don't really like.
aiyahhhh... so envy you. Get to travel to so many places in Taiwan. I want to stay there for a year too!
I'm drunk from all the eggs hehe
I love Taiwanese Sausage but have never tried Shaosing one... I guess it must have some lovely alcoholic taste. :)
wow that sausage looks yumm, i just imagine who is the taste?
Wow girl ... that is one huge ... (I wanted to type sausage) ... wine bottle!
I use the exact type of wine for cooking too.
4 "W"s eh? Who cares about water and weather?! Ha ha ha ...
An egg infuses with wine?! That I have to try!
That wine sounds wonderful, and that sausage looks like a week's worth of eating!
this is the first time i've heard of the aroma egg. i thought at first it was salted egg. hee hee. i haven't really cooked anything that needed wine. shame on me! :D
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It looks interesting...Happy WS!
the eggs are really interesting! imagine, food and wine all rolled into one hehe. :)
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What an interesting lesson...thank you!
Thanks so much for your birthday wishes ♥
Oh, I wish you had tried the rice wine ice cream and mochi so you could tell me what that tasted like.
Wow... what an intoxicating post! ;)
Fits perfectly with my recent Chinese-focused blog entries (sorta) and given that Pakcik Nic has encouraged me to consider using The Plum in the Golden Vase as my next inspiration... maybe I'd end up blogging about at least two of these 4 Ws? LOL.
I thought Shaoxing wine come from China.I love both wine in my cooking.Usually use it for stew meat.Now you make me want to cook Shaoxing wine aroma egg.
I always have a bottle of Shao Xing wine in my pantry -- I can't imagine a hard boiled egg cooked in it, though!
So do you prefer Shaoxing or Huadiao rice wine? My mother seems to think Huadiao is better, but then I can only get hold of Shaoxing here anyway so that's what I use!
normally I don't use rice wine for my Chinese food. But some friends told me I have to use it if I want the taste more like in chinese restaurant:)
daphne, I don't think all Taiwanese sausages are marinated in Shaoxing. Just the Shaoxing sausages, maybe.
pea, almost almost drunk. Then I knew why the guide told us not to consume the eggs during the tour. I started to appreciate the advice, but too late!
ming, sesame oil is a must in the kitchen if one cooks Chinese food, IMO.
ECL, when you coming?
wilfrid, the water and weather makes the wine good, and women pretty! :P
wandering chopsticks, I tried the mochi. It was fruit flavor with hint of wine taste. Not too bad. But I did not try the ice-cream.
beachlover, yes. Shaoxing is indeed named after a place in China and comes from China too. I guess it's just different sources.
nilmandra, I don't think I've use Huadiao in my cooking before because where I am staying...shaoxing or the usual rice wine seems more common.
oh nice...i am not really into cooking, but really appreciates good food. as long as it's presented to me well, then i will eat....i love going to a friend's house who loves to cook and uses wine with her cooking too.I am not sure if she uses Shaoxing though..anyways, god photos and thanks for the visit:)
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