Ever recreated your favourite Chinese dish at home only to discover it tastes good—but is missing that unmistakable restaurant-style depth?

Before adding another heroic splash of soy sauce, reach for Double Phoenix Chinese Cooking Wine Blue Label 640mL.

This aromatic Chinese rice cooking wine is a versatile pantry essential used to add savoury complexity, balance and fragrance to stir-fries, marinades, braises, sauces, dumpling fillings, soups and broths. With an alcohol content of 14%, it brings ingredients together and helps create the rounded flavour associated with authentic Chinese cooking.

The secret is restraint. Add approximately one to two tablespoons, depending on the size and style of your dish. A little of this amber gold goes a long way, so pour with purpose rather than treating the wok like happy hour.

Why Home Cooks and Chefs Love It

Double Phoenix Blue Label Chinese Cooking Wine can help:

• Add aromatic depth to stir-fries and sauces
• Enrich slow-cooked braises, stews and broths
• Complement the flavour of beef, pork, chicken and seafood
• Balance soy sauce, ginger, garlic and other seasonings
• Reduce strong aromas in meat and seafood marinades
• Deglaze a hot wok and release its caramelised flavours
• Give homemade Chinese dishes a more complete, restaurant-style finish

It is equally useful for quick weeknight cooking, professional kitchens and ambitious food bloggers who would rather not caption their latest stir-fry, “Almost as good as takeaway.”

How to Use Double Phoenix Chinese Cooking Wine

Marinades

Add one tablespoon to a marinade with light soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger, garlic and cornflour. It is ideal for sliced beef, pork, chicken or seafood before stir-frying.

Stir-Fries

Pour a small amount around the hot edge of the wok after browning your protein. The heat quickly releases its aromatic character before the wine combines with the remaining sauce.

Braises and Stews

Add one or two tablespoons to soy-braised chicken, pork belly, beef, tofu or mushrooms. It works particularly well with ginger, garlic, star anise, soy sauce and a little sugar.

Soups and Broths

A measured splash can add warmth and complexity to wonton soup, noodle broth and slow-cooked chicken soup.

Dumpling Fillings

Mix a small amount into pork, chicken or vegetable fillings with ginger, spring onion, soy sauce and sesame oil for a fuller, more aromatic flavour.