Live music at NY Wines/Yokaban NY in Fukuoka from 8-10 PM. No cover charge. Bring your friends and enjoy a wide variety of carefully curated drinks (hint: Yokaban NY is connected to NY Wines, so you have access to an amazing selection of shochu and awamori as well). Kanpai! … [Read more...]
Friday Night Live!
Live music at NY Wines/Yokaban NY in Fukuoka from 8-10 PM. No cover charge. Bring your friends and enjoy a wide variety of carefully curated drinks (hint: Yokaban NY is connected to NY Wines, so you have access to an amazing selection of shochu and awamori as well). Kanpai! … [Read more...]
Shochu Experts around the World
Zipangu Shochu Magazine, now in its third year, has tended to focus on the people and companies that make shochu, or at the very least are based in Japan (see last year’s feature article on Chef Marc Matsumoto). This is an obvious necessity since the publication’s mission is to spread shochu’s story far and wide, something that has yet to happen on any noteworthy scale. The … [Read more...]
Chef Marc Matsumoto: Bringing Japanese Food and Shochu to an International Audience
The culinary artistry displayed on NoRecipes.com comes from the mind and creativity of Chef Marc Matsumoto. This blog is where he shares the best versions of the food that he comes up with, whether that be his take on a classic Japanese Chicken Teriyaki, or a modern Italian and Mexican mashup. Marc took some time out of his extremely busy schedule of media appearances, writing, … [Read more...]
Shochu and Awamori Day Events
November 1st is the semi-official start of the distilling season in Kyushu and Okinawa. Most distilleries are already cranking away well before that time, but the day has nevertheless been anointed "Honkaku Shochu and Awamori Day." And what a day it is! There are events all across Japan to commemorate Japan's indigenous spirits, all of which involve some volume of drinking … [Read more...]