Cooking Sake/ Japanese Rice Wine – this is a bit lighter in flavour than Chinese cooking wine, but is an acceptable substitute and the best substitute. These wines bring a similar depth and complexity to sauces. Non-alcoholic substitute for Shaoxing Wine Non-alcoholic substituteswill vary from ...
Some sources will tell you that mirin is a great Shaoxing wine substitute, and it will do in a pinch if you cut the sugar out of your recipe. A better, closer choice is dry sherry (not cooking sherry). Mirin is sweeter than Shaoxing wine, which has a deep, aromatic, and slightly sw...
My preferred substitute for Shaoxing wine is dry sherry (NOT “cooking sherry”, which is salted). It has about 90% of the umami and fragrance of Shaoxing and it is pretty widely available wherever wine is sold. I admit that it is missing a little bit of the maltiness of Shaoxing wine...