Comments on: Chinese Vegetable Recipe (Choy Sum)

By: Alicia

Alicia — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:35:13 +0000

Hi Susmita, Shiaoxing wine is just a chinese rice wine. Pretty much any chinese rice wine will do. It has an alcohol content of around 14% like normal wine (so you don’t get it confused with a spirit). It will smell a bit like an English sherry and can be substituted easily with sherry if you can get that instead. Alicia

By: mike Delepine

mike Delepine — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:58:34 +0000

Rasa, You have great recipes I’ll be making so many of you dishes for my wife and self.. Thank you for taking all this time to do this for all of us..

By: Rasa Malaysia

Rasa Malaysia — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 05:43:45 +0000

Rice wine or cooking sake.

By: weaam

weaam — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:24:08 +0000

hi,, what can i use as a substitute for Shaoxing wine or any other wine?

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By: peterpantryraider

peterpantryraider — Mon, 28 May 2012 05:15:53 +0000

Shaoxing is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Zhejiang province, People’s Republic of China where there are several of producers of red glutinous rice wine, hence the name. The wine is reddish in color due to the red glutinous rice used.

By: Cyn

Cyn — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:34:57 +0000

I don’t normally review blog sites but I have to say that I just tried this recipe today and absolutely LOVED it!
Yesterday I found Choy Sum at my groceries which was like finding gold. However, I have no idea how t cook it.
When I searched the web I found your site and I still can’t believe how easy it was to cook with this recipe.
The result was excellent. I used Mirin instead of the chinese wine and reduced the sugar to 1 tsp.
Thanks again for posting this recipe. I can’t wait to order your book now :)

By: susan

susan — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:40:35 +0000

Susmita;
If you can’t find Shaoxing wine, any cooking wine will do. I do sometimes use whatever I can find in my kitchen, but adjust the quantity accordingly. Hope this helps.

By: Bianca

Bianca — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:39:10 +0000

How many servings does this recipe call for?