Eating in China
AI-generated ingredient illustration: clear amber cooking wine in a bowl, one yellow-rice-wine appearance.

Cooking wine

料酒Liàojiǔ

Wine used as liquid seasoning in marinades, sauces and cooking.

Type
Sauces and seasonings

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Wine used as liquid seasoning in marinades, sauces and cooking.

In the kitchen

Used in one Mao-style braised pork preparation.

Chinese cooking wines include clear rice wine and yellow Shaoxing wine.

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这道菜里有料酒吗?

Does this dish contain Cooking wine?

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