thinking of making mapo tofuhow essential is shaoxing wine?
>>22025396You should buy it anyway because it's in most chinese dishes
>>22025409ok and it is the wine and not the cooking wine that i want, right?
>>22025411Cooking wine is shit in all cases
>>22025413aright thanks
>>22025413Buy this kind, it's cooking wine
>>22025417I prefer moon lake personally
Just use white wine, it's not really different
>>22025417Do not let this white devil lead you astray
>>22025423Especially do not listen to this guy
>>22025411just buy the cooking wine, dont listen to that pseud. all chinese just use this>>22025417
It's more important that you include doubanjiang
>>22026071Do you have a brand recommendation?
>>22026071>>22026094doubanjiang is the only essential ingredient. Besides the tofu.>Do you have a brand recommendation?Lee Kum Kee. Everything they make is pretty decent.Fun fact: they invented Oyster Sauce
>>22026094why, the one with the friendly chef on the label, of course. look for the GI seal that indicates it's of authentic Pixian origin.>>22026103This one will probably be easier to find and LKK is a good brand, but it is not authentic Pixian. idk how much that matters, but it's worth noting. LKK uses soybeans instead of traditional broadbeans.
>>22026109LKK makes broadbean variants now but this brand is much better
>>22025417don't use this, it's disgustingly salty. Just use normal drinking rice wine to have a better control over your seasoning
>>22025422this is the shit. thank god we have some smart anon on this board still.
>>22026126They hated me because I told the truth
>>22025396ive made it without not, not a huge difference. most important ingredients are the broad bean paste and the peppercorns
>>22025396I dunno, I just buy a sauce packet and dump that over the tofu and ground pork.
>>22026125>Just use normal drinking rice winePray tell, fucko. What is a "normal drinking rice wine?"
>>22026617rice wine intended for drinking. something labeled as "cooking wine" has a lot of salt added to the point where it's undrinkable because it gets taxed less that way but it can be too salty.
