Food / Drink
Sake
日本酒 にほんしゅ
Rice, water, koji and yeast; brewed like beer, drunk like wine, at any temperature from ice to hot. The label words to know: junmai (rice only), ginjo and daiginjo (more polished, more fragrant), nama (unpasteurised, drink fresh), nigori (cloudy). Ask for the brewer's region and the season — sake has vintages and moods. Cold and dry with sushi; warm and rich with a hotpot.
- How to order
- "Osusume wa?" (what do you recommend?) and "hiya" (cold) or "atsukan" (hot); a small carafe (tokkuri) is the unit.
- Price band
- ¥¥
- Where
- Nihonbashi, Shinjuku, Kagurazaka
The words to say are on the phrases page.