Is Saké Chinese or Japanese?

The Epoch Times ^ | December 3, 2012 | Valeria Beroiz

[Mears]

Japanese or Chinese?

Who cares?

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[DManA]

It might be rice wine to you but it’s saké to me.

SPLUSHHHH!

Judy Carne 1969.

[Misterioso]

The Japs probably stole it when they brutalized the Chinks long ago. /s

[RPTMS]

Japanese! I know this from watching You Only Live Twice!

[Vendome]

Who cares? Is it 80 proof or better?????

[GeronL]

sake is Japanese

Koreans also have a rice wine.. hang on thats Makgeolli

what would be compared to sake from Korea is soju (so-joo). they say it is “sweeter” than sake

[struggle]

Who gives a flip about sake when there’s Awamori shochu to get wasted on.

[Venturer]

I have tried Sake several times, and it always tastes like another 4 letter word to me.

[ClearCase_guy]

British, actually ...

and perhaps a bit of a pooftah.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That’s my recollection. Korean rice wine is sweeter.
I don’t know if the formula is different than Japan’s but there are numerous variations in the Japanese islands.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***All this was spit-chewed and then the whole mixture was put in a barrel. ***

Much like African millet beer! Peter Hathaway Capstick wrote that many a drunk was carried off by lions after drinking millet beer.

[nickcarraway]

Lions learned how to marinate? Do they use garlic?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I have tried Sake several times, and it always tastes like another 4 letter word to me.***

I like saki. Different from vino.

Reminds me of an old joke Judy Carne used to say on LAUGH IN.

“It might be rice wine to you but it’s ‘saki-to-me’!”

[PGalt]

Interesting. Thanks for posting. I was doing sake bombs at the sushi zen restaurant Saturday night.

[GeronL]

I hope nobody here tells me they cannot wait to drink a barrel of Asian spit.

[GeronL]

Apparently there is a pretty wide variation on soju as well, just checked the wiki

[Dogbert41]

The marinade sounds like a terryaki, but with a kick. The mouth chewed saki, no thanks!!!

I like a nice warm decantor of saki sometimes with my sushi.

[GSP.FAN]

Bookmarking for later read when the kids are asleep.Cold sake sucks but hot sake with sushi is excellent.

[jobim]

As a young man in Taiwan years ago, I went camping with 2 Chinese roommates.
We 1st stopped to get bags of plaster of Paris to surround our tents with,
as snakes (thick in Taiwan, multiple varieties of poisonous ones) won't crawl over it. So I bought a double amount, making double-wide stripes, just to be sure.
That night I drank Mi Jiou (rice wine/sake) for the 1st time. Way way too much.
I awoke in the bushes about 10 yards from my tent, to the utter howling delight
of my Chinese companions.