What is mirin in Japanese cooking? Is it a special soy sauce?

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Kitty said: Yes.What is mirin in Japanese cooking? Is it a special soy sauce?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
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Im a Japanese. yes its like special sweet rice-wine just for seasoing use. We use it for many many dishes and you cant replace Mirin with usual rice-wine(sake).

If you want to make japanese food you must prepare at least soysourse, mirin, sake, seaweed for soup(Konbu) and dried fish(Katsuobushi). but you can replace Konbu and katsuobushi with dried spoup for japanese cuisine.

Other Answers:
Sweet cooking rice wine. It is not soy sauce. It is light in color.

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It is sweet rice wine, color - light yellow. Can be purchased in any Japanese or asian grocery store. They're both right!!!

BTW, when I was in the UK I found very SMALL bottles of mirin in Tesco, so maybe you can find it in your local supermarket? It should work out cheaper per 100 ml in an Asian food store though...!

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