Kurand Sake Market
Japanese sake breaks new ground with a variety specially blended to pair well with chocolate
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Oona McGee
May 16, 2016 - Tweet
- Culture, Entertainment, Food & Drink, Japan
- (chocolate • Japanese rice wine • kimoto • Kurand Sake Market • sake • sweets • wine)
Kurand Sake Market opens Asakusa branch, Mr. Sato and Yoshio imbibe to their hearts’ content!
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Krista Rogers
Sep 4, 2015
On September 2, Kurand Sake Market opened a new shop in the Asakusa district of Tokyo. This location is a sister branch to the original Kurand Sake Market which opened earlier this year in Ikebukuro, where sake lovers can sample 100 varieties of sake for 3,000 yen (US$24.64) per person with no time limit.
The Asakusa branch invited curious members of the media in for a sneak peek before its grand opening to the public, so we promptly sent our sake-loving reporters Mr. Sato, a veteran of the Ikebukuro shop, and Sailor Venus-cosplaying reporter extraordinaire Yoshio to check things out. But rather than write their opinions for each of the 30 individual brands they sampled, which would undoubtedly become tedious after a while, they decided to create a handy visual guide so that you can gauge their reactions to each cup with a picture, thus eliminating any language barriers in the process. Let the sake festivities begin!
- Japan
- (all you can drink • Asakusa • bar • Kurand Sake Market • Mr. Sato • nihonshu • sake • taste test • Tokyo • Yoshio)
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