Been cooking more chinese food at the moment, primarily down to uber babe Ching-He Huang

Anyway, around here I can't seem to find Shaohsing rice wine. Tesco or Adsa don't seem to sell it. Sainsburys apparently sell Chinese cooking wine but I haven't seen it in local stores.
I don't fancy the online options as I only need this ingredient and it would be a waste of delivery charges.

Anyone know where to get it? or what about the Dry Sherry alternative. There are about a dozen different types of Sherry in Asda, so what do you use?

The other week I had an urge to get drunk and the only thing in was half a bottle of red wine and the bottle of sherry we use for cooking, red wine and sherry really isn't a good combo.

No idea where you can get it from, most places have a chinese supermarket where you no doubt could get it.

Snap. I've been looking for it everywhere as well.

I eventually managed to find it in a small local Chinese food shop we have here in Ipswich - it's quite pricey though - £4.99 for a bottle.

Does your town have anything similar?

No, we don't have a Chinese supermarket AFAIK. I looked on Yell and Google and the closest to it would probably be a few shops in an area of Newcastle.


How about the Dry Sherry. What type would be used? There seems to be several different ones.

Can get just about anything you need for Chinese cookery from this site.

http://www.waiyeehong.com/

That website does sell it for £3.95 however, the estimated postage is £6.97 which is what the OP wanted to avoid.

Thanks for the link. I may just do a bulk order of the essentials before christmas. A chinese christmas hamper

I bought Chinese Cooking Wine from Waitrose and defo seen it in Sainsburys too

The online store says they sell Win Yip Chinese Cooking Wine but we only have the local/express strores around here.

I bought Shaosing cooking wine from the Wing Yip supermarket in Manchester chinatown yesterday - £3.75 for 600ml.

Unfortunately that's the wrong side of the country for me

Even in London I find it hard to find Shaohsing rice wine in my area. Chinese cash & carry stores have it, and obviously you can find it in london's Chinatown.
Funny that non of the big supermarkets carry it. A good substitute is Sainsbury's Pale Dry Fino Sherry £4.50p for a 75cl bottle.
Avoid the rice wine vinegars sold in supermarkets

Two years later and my local supermarkets still don't stock it. I've been using sherry instead.

I found some earlier today about a 25 min bus ride away from my flat in N. London. I know your up north but for anyone in London check out Loong Fung stores. They have the real deal Shaoxing wine, they also sell hardware like woks, cleavers, etc.

a couple of links.

http://www.chevsky.com/2009/12/shaoxing-rice-wine.html

http://www.loonfung.com/ourstores.htm