If you’re swirling this with 白酒, wouldn’t a better substitution for it be something like vodka, rather than shaoxing? It feels weird to use a cooking wine as a substitute for a liquor.
It’s less that Shaoxing is a direct baijiu substitute, and more that either of the two ingredients would be used in this fashion in Yunnan. You would see Shaoxing wine more in restaurants, Baijiu in home kitchens :)
If you’re swirling this with 白酒, wouldn’t a better substitution for it be something like vodka, rather than shaoxing? It feels weird to use a cooking wine as a substitute for a liquor.
It’s less that Shaoxing is a direct baijiu substitute, and more that either of the two ingredients would be used in this fashion in Yunnan. You would see Shaoxing wine more in restaurants, Baijiu in home kitchens :)