Urgent: Can I bring Chinese cooking alcohol?
By Think-Twice •
Hello,
Quick question: can I bring Chinese traditional alcohol (used for cooking) to Qatar? Is it prohibited there?
Had anyone seen similar cooking alcohol available in local supermarkets?
Thanks.
Think2
Anyone has brought in chinese cooking wine before. It's really for cooking purpose.. WOuld like to know.
i g0t nothin 2 say
" Remember Kids Beer is Good For You :P "
now that sounds interesting ooo...I definitely will.
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Diamondgirl, try it on fruit salads or strawberries!!!
Hello,
Didn't expect that so many got excited about this topic. Chinese do cook with alcohol (brewed with rice) to bring out the flavour and make food smell better.
I didn't bring those cooking alcohol when I fled here. Just brought some traditional sauses. Customs did not check when my luggages were scanned.
Thanks.
Think2
a little progress everyday adds up to big results
I stand corrected...although the balsamic vinegar in the shops here is the non-alcoholic variety.
I love it on salads and in soups mainly. Also for making V Marys. Yummy.
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thats exactly the pic which came in my mind
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
what would we do without it
try tequilla sunrise
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
if your talking tequilas then thats a personal favourite. it never fails to liven up any party.
do it right - the first time!
I was just doing my impersonation of an old bag lady, with her meths in a brown paper bag, roaming the streets looking for a cardboard city to settle down in under a big copy of a Sunday newspaper.
Perhaps I shouldn't tempt fate!
Am logging off now, and going to bed. Stay safe all and good night x
then how about margarita
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
what compound inside u wants to be attached for a reaction that u drinking Methylated Spirits :D why not try jagermeister
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
i dont believe the classic adage of "rum for the men,wine for the ladies and beer for the boys...."
ps i enjoy my rum as much as my gin and bm.
do it right - the first time!
Yes, you're sure right about that.
I can't believe I forgot the vodka in my Bloody Mary. My mixing skills are a bloody shame too. Because the alcohol in the balsamic vinegar definitely isn't going to do much.
:D
bloody mary is a gals drink or am i wrong
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Not going to break open the Balsamic until I've finished the Methylated Spirits :D
Tonic water is best with gin few drops of angostura n a lime piece..... wonder how the taste was with balsamic vinegar i am sure u going to tell us
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
anyone knows where i can get the best bloody mary in doha....the best i enjoyed was at cloudnyn so far
do it right - the first time!
But you know what a Bloody Mary is called without vodka, don't you?
It's called a Bloody Shame! :D
Yes, yes, I'm sure everyone is going to take to drinking balsamic vinegar now. You can get tomato juice and a celery stick and make some kind of bloody mary, using balsamic vinegar as a substitute for what I call "What's this here" sauce. :P
What shall we call it? Doha Secret Special?
however a bit of research (just now) tells me some are, and some aren't. Depends on the 'brand'.
6% seemed to be the highest!
I live and learn.
*wandering off to grab a balsamic and tonic on the rocks* :P
Once again the authentic balsamic vinegar is alcoholic.
Go check this web page: http://www.balsamico.it/ which is from an important group of producers of one of the best balsamic vinegar in Italy and on the English version of it you will read:
“Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena is obtained from crushed grape-must which is cooked, matured through slow acetification, deriving from natural fermentation and progressive concentration and through lengthy aging in a series of small barrels of different kinds of wood, with no addition of aromatic substance”
I’m sure there are different levels and qualities of balsamic vinegar but for me there is just one type of “aceto balsamico”: the one above! … I’m spoiled like that ; )
Balsamic vinegar has no alcohol...it is not a wine vinegar (although often described as one). It is made from unfermented grape juice.
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People - wine vinegar, at least the proper one, is alcoholic (about 3-6%) and balsamic vinegar is wine vinegar! You don’t drink though but use it for cooking.
Oh and BTW they sell it here in some supermarkets too ; )
Sorry to correct some people but some vinegar doesn't contain amounts of vinegar.
Spirit vinegar is halal.
@think twice. But your cooking liquids in a normal vinegar bottle.
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There is vinegar here, but there isn't ALCOHOLIC vinegar.
then whats in those bottles at the shopping malls or any supermarket some kinda juice?? ok will get one today and test it and if any thing happened to me will tell the doc that you told me GET HER SUE HER :/
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Darude, there's no alcoholic vinegar here.
No flammables on a plane. Play it safe man... think twice indeed.
its available here out it supermarkets not a big deal then why he has to bring it from china.
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My man brought in once from abroad a bottle of balsamic vinegar, which is alcoholic but for cooking, and they let him in. He declared it though, showed the bottle and said it was vinegar.
Cooking alcohol?? now what the hell is cooking alcohol and are you guys sure about QDC having cookin alcohol??
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Hi lzxcoco,
Thanks, what does 'QDC' stand for?
Think2
a little progress everyday adds up to big results
try QDC..........good selection of alcohol
You're right, I forgot about all the new security arrangements. Good job their is no restrictions for all our favourite crispy sandwich filler! :D
I don't go to mythical places with strange men.
-- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
one would never get it through as far as departure lounge. liquids can only be bought AFTER one has gone through customs and security.
To try bringing alcohol through security in a water bottle one would probably be arrested for carrying a potential bomb! (just need to soak a rag in the alcohol, stick it in the bottle neck and set fire to it then lob it wherever!)
lmao what ARE you thinking of! :P
I don't go to mythical places with strange men.
-- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
Thanks and noted
Think2
a little progress everyday adds up to big results
Not allowed & not for sale in Qatar