Rick Stein’s Taste of Shanghai, BBC Two: celebrity chef tries ‘hangover-free’ rice wine in China

The chef celebrates Chinese New Year by seeking out traditional and authentic dishes
Tipsy: Rick Stein has a positive experience with 'hangover-free' rice wine
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Ben Travis8 February 2016

Now here’s a miracle: a strong and apparently delicious wine, that doesn’t leave a hangover.

It’s something that most of us have dreamed of when heading out for ‘a few quiet drinks’ after work, only to find ourselves clinging desperately to a tube of Berocca the next day.

But on his travels in Shanghai, a hangover-free wine is exactly what celebrity chef Rick Stein encountered.

“This wine above all others, you can drink it and it makes your head clearer and clearer – you never get a headache,” he learns from his host.

“I really like this wine,” Stein declares. “It’s tasting to me like really old Burgundy, funnily enough.”

The new documentary, coinciding with the arrival of the Chinese New Year, sees Stein venture to the Asian city to try and find authentic and traditional flavours in the rapidly-expanding city.

Among the culinary treats he finds are rich red braised pork, fragile dumplings, and a plate of very “piggy” pork noodles.

BBC Two, 9pm

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