[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?????

[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.

[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.

[PGalt]

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

[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.

[reed13k]

Sake is Japanese
They also have shochu which is similar to vodka
And plum wine (which I haven’t gotten the taste for)

The Chinese have baijou but its 35% up to 50%+

All range from paint varnish to excellent depending on the brew the food the company and the individual

I prefer sake - usually cold (my wife and I can never warm it without killing it even indirectly). That or Irish whiskey or a good 15+ year scotch ;)

Shochiku Bai makes an excellent bottle in the US for just under ten bucks its a versatile junmai that can be served fairly at any temperature.

[Boogieman]

Warm sake? Bedddddy goooood!

[Exit148]

To answer the question of the title — Everything seems to have started in China. With their long and recorded history, it is hard to beat them.

I have a bottle of Sanbian Bujiu, but I have never opened it. I’ll leave it to you to translate that.