Our favorite drinks: A comparison

There are many kind of alcohol in the world.

 Some types of alcohol are said that it’s a symbol of the country’s culture. For example, wine is a symbol of France, beer is a symbol of German, etc. Everyone has drunk and enjoyed their country’s alcohol. I think that knowing about some country’s alcohol is very important to understand other countries' culture.

In this blog, I am going to introduce Japanese & Korean alcohol. And I'd like you to understand and be interested in one of our cultures.

 

SAKE 

SAKE is made from Japanese rice and water. It is pure rice alcohol. As you know, Japanese rice is the most important stuff for Japanese foods. So, people have tried to improve rice’s taste since ever. At the same time, SAKE have been improved.

The taste of SAKE is spicy and sweet. But it is not so strong, it’s mild. Because almost Japanese foods are mild. SAKE is made to drink with Japanese mild foods. SAKE doesn't have any color, it’s clear. It is said that a clearer SAKE is better.

 

SAKE is usually drunk at normal temperature. But in winter, people worm it, and in summer, they cool it. You can enjoy drinking SAKE regardless of its temperature.

When people drink SAKE, sometimes they use a kind of cup named ‘Otyoko’. It is very small cup.

Otyoko is very small, so people have to pour SAKE each time an Otyoko become empty. Why they use such a small cup? Because Japanese people think that pouring SAKE is important to enjoy drinking. 

There are many kind of SAKE in Japan. But the SAKE I would recommend is the brand of “Dassai”.

Japanese people say ‘if you get a good SAKE, you can drink it a lot like 'drinking water’. I think Dassai is THE good SAKE. If you have an opportunity to visit to Japan, I would like you to drink Dassai.

RICE-WINE

I like Korean alcohol “Mak-geol-li”, called Rice-wine.
I’m not a habitual drinker as I wrote it about the alcohol. Nevertheless, why I write the alcohol is that alcohol is the most global and attractive drink to converse with many people. Among the many kind of alcohol, Rice-wine is the most Korean style and traditional. I have been the sense of duty making people to give their attention to Korea while I was writing this blog!
OK! Shall we fall in Mak-geol-li ~?

  Rice-wine? Mak-geol-li?

What is Rice-wine? It has history over one thousand year. We also call it “farm-alcohol” because we drank it when we were doing farm work in the past. Rice-wine is fermented drinks consisted of rice, barley, flour, yeast and water.

  Effectiveness of Rice-wine

Drinking Rice-wine has a four good point.

1. Skin care : Vitamin B, phenylalanine
Vitamin B and phenylalanine Rice-wine has keep your skin soft and supple.


2. Prevent constipation : lactic-acid bacteria
Rice-wine increases immunity and save you from any illness now that fermented Rice-wine has a lot of lactic-acid bacteria


3. Weight maintenance
Rice-wine’s calorie is about 45~70kcal according to 150g, it belongs to the low calorie drinks. In addition, Red-wine control piling fat in our body to help maintaining weight.

4. Anti-cancer effect

Drinking Rice-wine is the way to avoid and ameliorate cancer.

Tips!


1. Keep the temperature
Remember the optimal temperature is between 5 and 10!

2. Shake!
After standing a bottle for the long time, Rice-wine is separated into two parts. So we should shake it before opening!


3. Dishes!

What is food that goes well with Rice-wine? If the food has protein and vitamin, it would be a perfect combination such as been, tofu, seafood. We can choose cheese, bacon for western people.


Drink Rice-wine.. especially in a rainy day!!!