Anyone here that can read Chinese

[badjak]

Or, what do I have here?

Bottle 1

Bottle 2

Bottle 3

Bought these at the Chinese market.
I cook with them, but it would be nice to actually know what they are.
I think 2 are sone form of rice wines and the 3rd is a bit vinegarry, but not very sour. Could be soy based (thats the last pic)

 

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Sorry, if it were Bulgarian or Russian or even Macedonian, as well as the local languages (Croatian, Bosnian)I might help... but Chinese not unfortunately.

 

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Bottle 1 is Wangzhihe cooking wine
"Mainly to remove fishiness and increase flavor"

Bottle 2 is Fujian cooking wine.

That and the above differ from Shaoxing wine simply in the yeast origin that is used to ferment the glutinous rice and water,


shaoxing uses wheat-based yeast
fujian uses red rice yeast
Wangzhihe uses ???

 

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Bottle 3 I'm uncertain other than "old vinegar" which I'm guessing is aged vinegar. Passed that I'd have to ask hubby to get someone at his work to translate.

 

[badjak]

Bottle 1 is Wangzhihe cooking wine
"Mainly to remove fishiness and increase flavor"

Bottle 2 is Fujian cooking wine.

That and the above differ from Shaoxing wine simply in the yeast origin that is used to ferment the glutinous rice and water,


shaoxing uses wheat-based yeast
fujian uses red rice yeast
Wangzhihe uses ???

Thank you !!!!

Getting closer and sounds like I've been using them correct.

For whoever is interested, there is a definite taste difference between the 2 cooking wines

And my gamble on vinegar seems close as well, it's not nearly as harsh as other vinegars, so aged vinegar makes sense

 

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Thank you !!!!

Getting closer and sounds like I've been using them correct.

For whoever is interested, there is a definite taste difference between the 2 cooking wines

And my gamble on vinegar seems close as well, it's not nearly as harsh as other vinegars, so aged vinegar makes sense

I reckon using them according to their flavour and your cooking knowledge is 100% using them correctly.
Not that it helps with the translation much

 

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which I'm guessing is aged vinegar

Nevertheless, I am impressed by your command of Chinese.

Anything language and linguistics related, I enjoy tremendously.

I am this close /to entering a French course in Sept 2024. I' ve done some app learning...

And then, some years later, I'd love to study Spanish too.

I am also intrigued by the concept of aged vinegar, which I will ask further below.

 

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aged vinegar makes sense

What would you say is the best use for aged vinegar? Or this aged vinegar? Or how did you use it?
I am not sure I have come across any so far...

 

[badjak]

I have been going by smell and taste
This stuff has a slight vinegar smell, and is mild but tasty.

I use both the rice wine and vinegar when making something with a Chinese flavour.
Meaning in practice...
Just toss it in and keep your fingers crossed. Then taste.

I made steamed buns yesterday and they needed a filling.
Chinese food often uses pork, so I cubed left over pork. Fried it a bit more and added chili bean paste and the vinegar and the koji rice wine.
Tasted. Was happy, so used it.
(Pic is in the "what did you cook/eat today thread)

Adding onions, garlic, leek, pak choy, chili's, ginger and or bean sprouts would have worked for the taste, just would have been to bulky for the filling

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Nevertheless, I am impressed by your command of Chinese.

Anything language and linguistics related, I enjoy tremendously.

I am this close /to entering a French course in Sept 2024. I' ve done some app learning...

And then, some years later, I'd love to study Spanish too.

I am also intrigued by the concept of aged vinegar, which I will ask further below.

Lol,
There was enough on the first 2 containers in English to suss out what they are. Aussie supermarkets have isles that don't contain much in the way of English, so you learn quite quickly how to work out what things are.

Bottle 1 only had the English word Wangzhihe which I know is a province in China.

Bottle 2 actually tells you both what it is and is ingredients in English.

Bottle 3 needed Google lens to help with translate and it gave me enough to work out from a direct translation "old vinegar" that it is aged vinegar. I've seen that many times in Australia.

As for languages, Latin was mandatory for 3 years at the school I went to. I dropped it as soon as i could. French was mandatory for all 7 years. I chose to study German and was fluent in it at one point, having been to school over there for a short period. I studied Russian at uni as an elective for 2 years (the 3rd year i did German again), and whilst doing my PhD, opted to continue my German.

With many years travelling around Scandinavia, whilst I can not speak Danish or Swedish, I can read Norwegian, Danish and Swedish. Given that Swedish is the 2nd language in Finland, I had few issues there as well. In Norway, it is so close to the German language that I had very few issues understanding it. In fact, 17 years ago, my husband and I nearly moved to Stavangar.

My family travelled widely around Scandinavia when I was growing up, so chatting with other children on camp-sites meant we picked up the basics and learnt to communicate without speaking the language. My husband and I spent a decent length of time in Scandinavia as a whole when we were attempting to cycle around the world, as well. Part of that cycling tour was learning to communicate in many cuneiform countries without actually speaking the language, but just knowing a few basic words and numbers and if needed the script.

 

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As for languages, Latin was mandatory for 3 years at the school I went to. I dropped it as soon as i could. French was mandatory for all 7 years. I chose to study German

LoL. Now I am even more impressed.
Studying foreign languages is such a wonderful option,a world of its own.
But also picking up bits and parts as one moves around in life.

Yep, we had Latin for 2 years in school too. English being your first language, French is a beautiful choice. I had started with French, but we moved a few months in, just within the city, and continued then with Russian, so 6 y of Russian, 10 y of English. German only prior to my post graduate, but starting from 0, and then for 2 years. I took 2 courses, a Goethe institut one and later another, I forget which school...whilst studying in Germany.

Bulgarian is my second mother tongue, so very comfortable and fluent,I even did consecutive translation jobs/gigs at a point (although Grammar is a bit shaky in the written forms, as I never formally studied it). But like you, Macedonian is so close to it, that I can manage probably very fine.

Love the Scandinavia childhood memories of yours...Never came across the Norwegian...I might make my way around then,lol...

I did do Esperanto for a year, but forgot about all. Can grasp , mostly in reading, a bit of Italian and Spanish for its Latin roots...but not to a speaking level...
Did some Dutch basic study with a book at a point ( that was a perfect emulsion of enough English and German , it seemed to me, to not consider it difficult, although the pronunciation is) and ah, the French
...my desire...several attempts, books and app...

The time shall come,lol, for my French...

A coworker of mine studied Japanese, a brilliant mind, she even translated books.

A friend of my daughter's studies Korean.

There is a certain elevated degree of difficulty,I feel, with studying those languages that have both a different script and a different basis, out of our Latin or German based pool. Likewise, Chinese.
But also Hungarian, for that matter, and relatedly Finnish.( minus the ease of the Latin script)

There is a Confucius Institute in my city,I believe, so Chinese is not out of reach. who knows, what ideas I get, when I retire...

I had a chemistry PhD once as a student...fantastic mind, he now teaches at our local Ch Faculty...is your PhD in chemistry?

I've inquired about a PhD, but at that point it was too expensive for me... I love seeing colleaugues of mine, working on her or worked on her thesis. The one branched out into history of music, the other branched into music psychology.

Well done, well done, regardless of the Google lens and or Translate...wow and wow.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

LoL. Now I am even more impressed.
Studying foreign languages is such a wonderful option,a world of its own.
But also picking up bits and parts as one moves around in life.

Yep, we had Latin for 2 years in school too. English being your first language, French is a beautiful choice. I had started with French, but we moved a few months in, just within the city, and continued then with Russian, so 6 y of Russian, 10 y of English. German only prior to my post graduate, but starting from 0, and then for 2 years. I took 2 courses, a Goethe institut one and later another, I forget which school...whilst studying in Germany.

Bulgarian is my second mother tongue, so very comfortable and fluent,I even did consecutive translation jobs/gigs at a point (although Grammar is a bit shaky in the written forms, as I never formally studied it). But like you, Macedonian is so close to it, that I can manage probably very fine.

Love the Scandinavia childhood memories of yours...Never came across the Norwegian...I might make my way around then,lol...

I did do Esperanto for a year, but forgot about all. Can grasp , mostly in reading, a bit of Italian and Spanish for its Latin roots...but not to a speaking level...
Did some Dutch basic study with a book at a point ( that was a perfect emulsion of enough English and German , it seemed to me, to not consider it difficult, although the pronunciation is) and ah, the French
...my desire...several attempts, books and app...

The time shall come,lol, for my French...

A coworker of mine studied Japanese, a brilliant mind, she even translated books.

A friend of my daughter's studies Korean.

There is a certain elevated degree of difficulty,I feel, with studying those languages that have both a different script and a different basis, out of our Latin or German based pool. Likewise, Chinese.
But also Hungarian, for that matter, and relatedly Finnish.( minus the ease of the Latin script)

There is a Confucius Institute in my city,I believe, so Chinese is not out of reach. who knows, what ideas I get, when I retire...

I had a chemistry PhD once as a student...fantastic mind, he now teaches at our local Ch Faculty...is your PhD in chemistry?

I've inquired about a PhD, but at that point it was too expensive for me... I love seeing colleaugues of mine, working on her or worked on her thesis. The one branched out into history of music, the other branched into music psychology.

Well done, well done, regardless of the Google lens and or Translate...wow and wow.

I forgot I've studied Spanish as well. My parents had an apartment in Tenerife (town of).

I didn't complete the PhD but it was in organic chemistry, (actually in surfactant monolayers at the air water interface). I even got to use the Hadron collider at CERN, Grenoble.

Now I work in IT (by accident) and am starting a MSc next month in IT.