Sake representing Nagano Prefecture with a long history 明鏡止水

Today, too, I’m enjoying sake by myself. I wandered around the liquor store, but it seems that the summer sake season has come to an end, and sake with a high distribution volume is conspicuous. Is this the off-season for fall? I picked up some sake that I thought looked tasty with a focus on dry sake, and looked at them. Meikyoshisui” is a four-character idiomatic expression.

  1. Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo
  2. Taste Evaluation
  3. Today’s snack: sticky-salad

Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo

Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo
Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo

It means.

Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo
Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo

A mirror without cloud and still water. The state of mind that is clear and quiet, without any kind of rancor.

From the Shogakukan Digital Dictionary)

I bought this sake because my mind is always stagnant, so I thought it might be what I need. I bought it by name.

The elaborate “Kimoto-zukuri” (sake brewer’s yeast )

Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo
Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo

As indicated on the label, it seems to be easy to drink from cold to lukewarm.

I did a little research on the brewery. Osawa Shuzo
The main brands are Meikyosisui and Seiki. It is more impressive that it is a small company with only 5 employees.

Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo
Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo

The family crest. Beautiful blue.

Old cap. Don’t cut your hand.

Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo
Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo
Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo
Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo

Open the bottle.
Weak Ginjo aroma. A little bit of Showa-era aroma.

Gulp it down!

Japan Ranking 202nd
Nagano Prefecture Ranking 10th

Comment A:
It is soft against the lips, but when you put it in your mouth, it is not sticky and has a dry taste with a hint of bitterness. There is a faint scent of cemedine in the aftertaste.

Taste Evaluation

Taste Evaluation
Meikyoshisui Kimoto Junmai Ginjyo

It is a mellow sake. The first sip tastes unfamiliar and complex. It tastes like old Showa-era sake. The second sip is a good one, and you can get used to it. For those who like dry sake, it tastes good. It has a complex taste when you finish it. It seems to go well with simmered dishes and strong flavors. It seems to be best with the taste of an old Showa-era country woman.

Today’s snack: sticky-salad

Recently, I have been addicted to the sticky packets of side dishes (okra, yam, and wakame salad), and adding natto to them makes a great dish. They say it is very good for cleaning the intestines.
It was another good day.

It was a good day, too!

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非常人気的日本酒 鳳凰美田 限定 初心者 好喝

还是一如既往的对限定这个词语很敏感

像是家庭主妇一样

鳳凰美田
鳳凰美田
鳳凰美田

瓶盖是复古的设计

鳳凰美田

开封

鳳凰美田

香气 「嗯」是吟酿酒特有的水果香气

越闻我就越清楚

香气一直残留在鼻子里、

浅喝一口

美味! 入口非常顺滑、也没有很粘稠的感觉,没有任何抵抗的通过了喉咙。

即使入喉之后,也是清香扑鼻,入口香甜醇厚。真是酒如其名 鳳凰美田。它由清澈的口感转变为甜味,最后转变为略微复杂的口感。看起来它很适合搭配白生鱼片等清淡的素菜。
鲜味的协同效应更能与清酒相辅相成,能衬托这酒的料理才更能体现出这种酒的美味。
あわび
あわび

煮鲍鱼说真的是失败。虽说比起日本酒更贴近白葡萄酒、但喝了这个,就完全没法喝便利店买的便宜白葡萄酒了。

这次的下酒菜完全失败了。 煮鲍鱼我想和热的日本酒更合适一些。

因为是薫酒,它和这种味道浓郁的下酒菜完全不融洽。

鳳凰美田 味の評価

For beginners, easy to drink sake with light alcohol content

Today, too, I am drinking alone in the dust. It is the end of the Bon vacation. I didn’t do anything in particular. In fact, the liquor store was closed and my only hobby was…. So I wandered around a large liquor store. I decided to buy by feeling once in a while.

  1. Shizengo
  2. Taste Evaluation
  3. Today’s snack

Shizengo

Shizengo

Cool nature and water design. I looked up “mellow pure rice” to see what it was all about. However, it seems that they wanted to express that it is junmai brewed with yeast in the original word pattern.

It is an old cap.

Opening the bottle

The aroma is similar to that of Kido, with a sweet melon-like aroma.

Gulp!

Japanese ranking 135th
Fukushima Prefecture Ranking 12th

Comment :A
The color is near clear. A faint ginjo aroma rises to the top.
In the mouth, it has a banana-like aroma and a mild mouthfeel combined with sweetness and umami.

Comment: B
Fairly fruity

Taste Evaluation

Taste Evaluation
Evaluation

The aroma is weaker than Kido’s and it is easy to drink. The balance between the sweetness of the rice and the ginjo aroma is good. It is recommended to be served cold or at room temperature, and there seems to be little resistance for beginners. It is not too sweet and is good to drink out of. It is natural. It seems to go well with light foods such as aperitifs, desserts, salads, and tofu on its own.

Today’s snack

tohu
tohu

I had some leek salt sauce left over, so I poured it over a piece of tofu. It was a great combination.

It was another good day.

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The origin of sushi flourished in Edo. Sushi bar in Kanda

Sushi mania is alive and well today.
A sacred place for sushi chefs since the Edo period. Tokyo Kanda.I went there for the best sushi at a reasonable price.

  1. EDO kids sushi
  2. Why a long-established sushi bar in the Kanda area of Tokyo?
  3. Menu
  4. Lunchi set

EDO kids sushi

EDO kids sushi
EDO kids sushi

There are people drinking from noon and this price is cheap.

Why a long-established sushi bar in the Kanda area of Tokyo?

Kanda is a town that developed during the Edo period. During the Edo period, the Tokugawa established the Five Routes and designated Nihonbashi, next to Kanda, as the starting point of the Five Routes. The Five Routes brought a variety of goods and services to Edo, and at the same time, cultures were exchanged, the economy developed, and Edo, the forerunner of the giant city of Tokyo, was formed. Many laborers gathered in Edo. Kanda was the starting point for the food supply for these workers. Fish from Tokyo Bay (Edo Bay) were supplied to the fish market in Uchi-Kanda, and produce brought from the northern Kanto region was gathered at the produce market in Kanda-Tamachi. Although the fish market later moved to Tsukiji and the produce market to Oi, Kanda was the starting point. In this way, Kanda developed along with the flow of the Edo period.
One of the fast foods that emerged during this period was fast-food yatai sushi, a quick and easy way to fill the bellies of impatient Edo people and busy laborers. Fast food was not the same as today’s sushi, which is made from frozen ingredients of unknown origin and served with various modifications. In an era without even refrigerators, sushi was made by simply preparing and serving freshly caught, seasonal ingredients while they were still fresh. Wasabi was originally used to prevent spoilage and add flavor. Sushi, a bold white rice topped with a thick slice of sashimi, was valued as an inexpensive and quick way to fill the stomach.
From the Meiji era onward, Kanda was reshaped as a town of artisans and students. Soon after the war, in 1947, Kanda and Kojimachi wards merged to form Chiyoda Ward. At that time, all the town names in Kanda Ward remained with Kanda as their eponyms. Kanda Tsukasa-machi, Kanda Kaji-cho, and Kanda Nishiki-cho…… are the names of many of these towns that remain today. Perhaps that is why there are still many areas in Kanda where one can feel a sense of emotion. Among them, the Kanda-Sudacho and Kanda-Awajicho neighborhoods are known as areas overflowing with a culinary atmosphere. <from openers>

Kanda is an area that has developed along with its history and is the town that inspired more people to eat sushi.

EDO kids sushi
EDO kids sushi
EDO kids sushi
EDO kids sushi
EDO kids sushi
EDO kids sushi

Most sushi bars have automated ordering. Foreign languages are also available.

EDO kids sushi

There are also some unusual sushi items that are unique to long-established sushi bars that are not available at major conveyor-belt sushi restaurants. For example, whale. Other seasonal fish are also available at the time of the season. Many of them are announced on posters on the wall.

 Beer
Beer
miso soup with nori seaweed
miso soup with nori seaweed

First, drink a very cheap beer.

This time I ordered a lunch set. Very reasonable. Comes with seaweed miso soup.

A moderately rare source of tea is bottled.

Lunchi set

EDO kids sushi

I had a lunch set.
If you go to a major conveyor belt sushi restaurant, this restaurant is better. The price is cheap too. When you come to Japan, I would like you to enjoy the atmosphere of a sushi bar in a downtown area.

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Japanese buckwheat noodle experience. Very interesting. Freshly made soba is delicious.

Many Japanese people have no experience with soba noodle making. Hence, we went to make it and tried making soba.
Nowadays, with the convenience of the Internet, reservations can be made immediately.

Production Engineering

  1. Mix
  2. Extend
  3. Arrange
  4. Boil
  5. Sampling food

I visited Asakusa, Tokyo.

Menkobo

Address

2-2-3 Nishi Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo 111-0035, Japan

MenKobo

Menkobo
Menkobo

We can eat soba anywhere in Japan. However, making Soba is not a rare opportunity.

Mix

I only vaguely know the process of making them.

Only soba noodles are ground to a powder using a stone mortar. Then put wheat flour and soba flour in a vessel in a certain quantity. The amount of water is determined according to the climate of the day. The water and flour are mixed together.

Extend

Japanese soba
Japanese soba

Well kneaded. Combine into a single mass, just like bread.

Sprinkle buckwheat flour and gradually stretch the dough with a rolling pin. This is one technique.

Japanese soba
Japanese soba
Japanese soba

When the dough becomes round, it is dusted with buckwheat flour again and stretched into a square shape.

Arrange

Now we will fold it to cut it.

Finally, we cut them with a special knife.

Now soba noodles are ready. Each person boils it and takes it home to eat.

Boil
Japanese soba
Japanese soba
Japanese soba
Japanese soba
Sampling food
Japanese soba
Japanese soba

Owner Mixes and Boils Everyone’s Soba in a Soba Making Experience He will print out how it will be boiled after completion.

I went home and boiled them, but it takes a few tries to get the hang of boiling them. But it is an interesting and good experience.

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Dry is still delicious. Nihon Bijin is Japanese sake.

Today, as usual, I am drinking alone. Bakuren, which I’ve had before. This woman in kimono always catches my eye and attracts my attention. And this time, the label says “super dry” on it. I knew it couldn’t be bad, so I got it on impulse.

  1. Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and “super dry
  2. Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and “super dry, taste evalution
  3. Today’s snack

Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and “super dry

Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and "super dry,
Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and “super dry,

The eccentric coloring of the Japanese paper-like design. It’s a very good taste.
I did a little research and found out that

Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and "super dry,
Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and “super dry,

Bakuren” is an unfamiliar word, but in the Yamagata dialect, it means a woman who does not listen to her parents and does as she pleases. The ukiyoe-style illustration of a glamorous woman on the bottle label was drawn with this image in mind. The crisp, mature taste of Bakuren may overlap with this image of women.

Enjyo SAKE

I had associated “爆連” with an aggressive kanji character on its own, but it was a dialect. I learned one thing.

The “limited edition,” “freshly brewed,” and “super dry,” which make me fall in love with them. If you look closely, you will see a modern design of a woman dressed in kimono drinking sake in a modern glass.

Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and "super dry,
Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and “super dry,

The design of the glass has a turtle pattern, just like the Kamenoi sake brewery.

Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and "super dry,
Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and “super dry,

Opening the bottle

Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and “super dry,

Slightly sweet with a banana aroma.

Gulp!

Japan Ranking 132nd
Yamagata Prefecture Ranking 7th

Comment: A
I guess I like Yamagata sake.

Comment: B
It’s been a long time since I’ve had bakuren. I went to buy Akabaku, and after much agonizing, I bought the rainbow color. Aroma of muscat or pineapple or something?
Super dry? No, no. The sweetness and umami spread out and then it suddenly snapped. The preceding umami sweetness is not so common in akabaku. I wonder what the liquor stores that are making fun of Aruzoe are trying to do? It’s so delicious…

Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and “super dry, taste evalution

Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and "super dry,  taste evalution
Bakuren, limited edition, freshly brewed, and “super dry, taste evalution

The mouthfeel is slightly sweet. The finish is refreshing. It is not as dry as I imagined, but it is easy to drink. It is suitable for beginners to those who want to upgrade their skills. It has a taste that can be appreciated after drinking a certain amount of sake. It is either a mellow sake or a refreshing sake. It seems to go well with both oily and light dishes. As expected, “Bakuren” can be drunk on its own. It is a pre-dinner or mid-dinner drink.

Today’s snack

Cucumbers
Cucumbers

Cucumbers are the best on a hot day, so we rehydrated ourselves with a simple snack of salted kelp, sesame seeds, and natto (fermented soybeans).

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