Are they one and the same?

Jill D

Add a quarter of a tablespoon of soft brown sugar to each tablespoon of rice wine in your recipe and you have the same thing as mirin, which is a rich sweet rice wine. Hope this helps, Josie

Does anyone know where I can buy Mirin - I've tried Waitrose, Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda, Morrisons?

no,but Ken Hom always used to say on his cookery programmes if you cannot get rice wine, use dry sherry! Maybe worth a go?

Hi DeeR

I go to Chinese supermarkets for my supplies. I know this is not always possible so here's two good websites so you can buy on line. www.wingyip.com and www.hoohing.com. They both have several branches and both offer different things at the different branches. I visit many shops selling these ingredients but these two are my favourites and sell at the cheapest prices too.

Well worth a look.

Hi lins, good to see you back Ive sent enquiries to those two sites for trade lists cos im getting requests from my customers for rice wine etc. so thanks for the addies.

Is rice wine only used in Chinese cookery?