If you are interested in US-made Michiu only, The above Linchen cooking Michiu is made in California and available in most Asian stores in variety of sizes. The brands (first row in picture) distirbuted by SSC Internatioanl earns a great reputation in oversea Chinese communities, and particularly, the products (second and third bottles) with red labels (红标) are made by the governmental Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corp and are absolutely well known in Taiwan. Michiu has two types - regular Michiu which has about 20% ABV and Michiu Tou (米酒頭), a drier version of Michiu with about 34% ABV. In Taiwan, white rice wine is labeled as Michiu or rice wine, but pronounced the same as mijiu in Chinese. It is used to mask the odor smell of meat and fish, but adds little or no extra flavor to the food. The clear white mijiu or white rice wine available in the US market majorly come from Southern China and Taiwan. Changjiu used to be the main drink on home yard banquet (坝坝宴) in some places of Sichuan. ![]() In Sichuan, homemade drinking mijiu is locally called changjiu (常酒) which is drunken in warm or hot and tastes the same as Japanese sake. Huangjiu, the redish mijiu, including Shaoxing wine, is perferred in East of China, while similar to Japanese sake, the clear white drinking mijiu is perferred in the other places, including Sichuan and Taiwan. Drinking mijiu made with red yeast is reddish in color and thus called huangjiu (yellow rice wine, 黄酒) interchangeably. It means either drinking rice wine that has alcohol range 12-50% ABV (alcohol by volume) or jiuniang (酒酿, 1.5-2.0% ABV) or laozao (醪糟) by Sichuanese which is a sweet, cotton-like fermented glutinous rice usually sold in refrigeration. Its acual meaning is dependent on the context. In general, mijiu is the generic Chinese name 米酒 for fermented rice wine. ![]() Correct name spelling in Chinese pinyin should be "Shaoxing" or "Shao Xing" "Shao HSing", "Shao Shing" and "Shaoxing" means the same place Shaoxing in China. By US law, cooking wine should be " Not for Sale or Consumption as Beverage Wine."Ĭhinese cooking wine in US groceries are all rice wine, made from fermeneted regular rice or glutinous rice, even though they may be labeled differently, such as Cooking Wine, Rice Cooking Wine, Rice Wine, Sweet/Glutinous Rice Cooking Wine, Shao HSing or Shao Shing or Shaoxing (Huadiao) (Rice) Cooking Wine, Miron, Cooking Spirit or without English name at all. ![]()
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