If you aren't familiar with this ingredient, think about cooking wine—while you could use regular wine for a recipe, cooking wine has a lower alcohol content and more sugar, making it more suitable for cooking rather than sipping. Mirin is the cooking wine version of sake, a rice wine. It adds flavor to the stir fry and gives it that signature Korean taste.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMost grocery stores will sell at least one brand of mirin in the international section. However, this is only sometimes the case. You may need to visit an Asian market or store to find this unique cooking wine.u003cbr/u003e