Alternative for chinese cooking wine????

[Skyler]

Is there one?? Recipe calls for it but I have none and don't know where to buy it...

My cookbook suggests sherry, but most people I know are even less likely to have that

I would say sherry.
I buy shaoshing wine from the chinese supermarket ..

sherry (as has been said... ) - chinese supermarket - Mirin.

I've just sloshed in some white wine in the past - seems to work ok. There's never very much (in terms of quantity) in most of the recipes I've used - if it's just a tablespoon or two I would just use bog-standard wine.

Yes, I only need 125mls. But no don't have sherry and would rather mail order the Chinese cooking wine .
Will try to get to Sainsbury's on Fri. Do you think they wil stock it. More chance than Tesco or Asda I think....
If not I will just bung in white wine then, thank you.