Shaoxing wine

English

Alternative forms
  • Shaohsing wine

Noun

Shaoxing wine (countable and uncountable, plural Shaoxing wines)

  1. A variety of huangjiu made from rice, from the region of Shaoxing in the Zhejiang province of eastern China. It is used in cooking and as a beverage.
    • [2010, Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 105:
      So that's when we start to make menus. I say, "At night, I'm dreaming menus. Like summer. First course: lime ceviche, try albacore."
      He says, "Second course: drunken chicken in Shao-hsing wine."      ]
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