Sparkling "Sou" by Kamishin.
As the name suggests, it is refreshing and has a clean aftertaste.
We paired it with yellowtail carpaccio and yellowtail nameko with yuzu, the best marriage 😋👌.
To thank the local Konishi Shuzo brewery for their hospitality this year, we ended our New Year's 🎍 extravaganza with their Hakusetsu Daiginjyo. The whale tail meat, a favorite of mine, is a perfect marriage of our tastes!
We enjoyed it with our family heirloom 💎 pine bark tenmoku sake cup 🤣.
Today is the last day of work for this year 😉.
Cheers to me 🥂 with a sparkling Kubota.
Beef tongue and spinach stir-fried with butter and gorgeous nigiri 🍣 is the best marriage 😋🍴.
Chicken nabe🍲 with Sansho miso on Christmas Day. I had Ichinokura Mutenkyo lukewarm. Dry and miso are the best combination 😋. I also used kanzuri as a condiment!
Fukumitsuya's Kagatobi Mitsuru. It is said to be an assemblage of junmai daiginjo, so it has no bad habits and goes well with all kinds of snacks. We toasted to our favorite Isagi sashimi, squid sashimi, and fried Chinese cabbage.
I didn't know you could have izakaya 🏮 home drinking while watching baseball ⚾️ on a holiday at the end of October 😉. The sake was Tamanomitsu's Tamabushimi, which I saw for the first time at the restaurant. My image of Tamanomitsu is that it is served chilled in summer with delicious snacks, but this one has a good balance of umami and is perfect for this season. My favorite bonito and clam, served on strips of paper 😋👍.
On a day when I am not feeling well due to the change of seasons, I recharge my energy with a one-person taro stew party. I will match it with Junmai Daiginjo nigori sake from Konishi Shuzo, a local sake brewery. It is rich, but with a delicious flavor that is easy to drink and completely revitalizing👍😋.
I still want to drink Gorohachi nigori sake at least once this time of year 😉.
Is it already late autumn? It's a late autumn day, but I'd like to enjoy it.
I've been enjoying grilled santa mackerel, Kansai's famous meat sucking, and my new favorite garlic-marinated cabbage 😋. After a long day, this is what I'm looking forward to👍.
We have a fresh sake from Kiku-Masamune Sake Brewery's gin. That fresh fruity feeling and the freshness of fresh-pressed sake is awesome. Top quality with the feeling that it goes well with any Kikumasa food. ‼︎
I'm off to have a great dinner with Monko squid, bonito, and some slices of sashimi from the supermarket (lots of medium fatty tuna, amberjack, etc. 😋) 😉.
Watching rugby 🏉💨 now: ‼︎
We will have dinner at Masumi in Suwa.
I'm going to have white bitter gourd and crab cakes with eggplant and fried eggplant with pancetta, for example. This rich flavor goes really well with Masumi.
This is a limited edition sake from Watanabe Sake Brewery, Hourai limited to 2118 🤔 bottles. The unique flavor and aroma goes very well with my favorite bonito 🐟 with straw-roasted garlic 🧄mashimashi. Isn't it the best marriage around the time of Higan 😋👍!
We will have a hiyaoroshi sake from the local Konishi Sake Brewery.
It has a deep flavor that is perfect for an autumn evening.
It is easy to drink and goes well with any food!
I will be pairing it with some isaki sashimi. A repeat purchase this fall!
Today's brunch dinner was a cup of Hakutsuru's original sake, my signature "Ore no Dashimaki" and a canned mackerel mixed with bitter gourd and okra (😋). It goes well with the delicious taste of the sake.
Sake sangria 🍷 or 👒.
Gekkeikan's ama-natsu on the rocks. Great for a hot daytime drink. ‼️
I'm going to work hard again from tonight 💪. I'm going to work hard again tonight 😉 😉.
The last day of summer vacation ☀️. We had hiyaoroshi from Gekkeikan in Fushimi for the first time this year. Every time I have hiyaoroshi, I feel the delicious taste of rice 🌾 and feel the joy of autumn coming before I know it 😉. Sashimi of chicken grunt 🐟, and kenka 🦑 and fresh shirasu! And I'm going to work hard until winter break🎌 again 💪 and the best one person party in late summer 😋👍.
.......it's so delicious!
I took a late summer vacation ☀️. I chose my favorite new bonito tataki, grilled conger eel and this is it! I chose 🤔 and Narukomai from Kochi Arisawa🍶‼︎
I heard it's a limited edition, but it has a very unique flavor. It's not at all unpleasant. ❗️ It goes well with seafood too 😋.
It goes well with seafood too.
Itami Morohaku from our local brewery, Konishi Shuzo. It is a super special Hakusetsu brewed in Itami, the birthplace of Sake. It has a mellow aroma and flavor, but is easy to drink, like a "commoner's luxury here" 😉👍.
Today we will be pairing seared octopus and yuba sashimi with crabapple peppers 😋🍴.
Gusanman, nice to meet you!
I like Hakusetsu too! There are many delicious ones!
When I was a kid, I used to bake Shirayuki sakekasu and eat it with sugar 😁.
The day of the Ox in Doyou. A reward for working hard in such a hot day 😉. I decided to have a Fushimi sake to go with the grilled eel (‼︎...), so I had Gekkeikan's Nouvelle Nari👍. A little wasabi and yuzu kosho (Japanese citrus pepper) on top for the perfect marriage 😋!
Fukuju, a local sake brewery in Nada, Hyogo Prefecture, has a summer-only? I found a summer limited edition of Nada's Fukuju. It goes well with open horse mackerels 😉👍. The depth of the sake and the sharpness of Fukuju's sake. I am sure it will go well with grilled eel in the coming summer! I will work hard for this marriage 💪😉.