A rare night of intimate cultural experience happened at Aqua Resort Club Thursday with a Japanese sake and Korean sojun and jinro special. <\/p>\n
From 6pm to 9pm on April 6, ARC\u2019s Vino Bar and Lobby Lounge overflowed with sake and soju to the pleasure of guests.<\/p>\n
Yoshimi Yanagisawa, ARC Food & Beverage sales manager, said she was overjoyed to see many people enjoying the evening.<\/p>\n
The special promo includes an all-you-can eat appetizer\u2014sashimi, poke, and vegetable sticks with miso\u2014and an all-you-can drink alcoholic beverage from Japan and Korea\u2013sake, shochu, sojun, and jinro.<\/p>\n
For all these treats, guests only needed to pay $25. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re quite impressed with the turnout. It\u2019s actually a one-night trial to see if people like it. We may do it again soon,\u201d said Yanagisawa.<\/p>\n
DRINK WITH STYLE<\/p>\n
She said the night shows the fusion of modernity and tradition as exemplified in the drinking of sake and jinro cocktails. <\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody thinks sake is an old tradition but we want to show them that you can do a lot these times with sake. You can drink it in style. There\u2019s a stylish way of drinking sake,\u201d said Yanagisawa.<\/p>\n
ARC served sake cocktails during the night\u2014blue cave, samurai rock, sake martini, and red sun. Korean Jinro cocktails were also available\u2014grapefruit with jinro and jinro kappa.<\/p>\n
Yanagisawa said Thursday night\u2019s event was a first on the island.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s never been done here on island,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The whole night was all about fusion of something old and new.<\/p>\n
As people sipped their sake and chatted with friends and associates, a video of contemporary Japanese music played in the background.<\/p>\n
The sense of blending \u201cold and new\u201d was all the more pronounced with the service staff dressed up in \u2018retro\u2019 kimono, which showed their legs in black stockings.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not the way to wear kimono. You don\u2019t wear it to show your legs in black stockings. But we\u2019re reinventing it. It\u2019s a mix of old and new things,\u201d explained Yanagisawa.<\/p>\n
During the night, sake was served the traditional way\u2014generously. It was served in a small sake glass inside the masu, a wooden box-like cup.<\/p>\n
The glass was filled to the brim so that a large amount of it overflows and fills the masu.<\/p>\n
Once the glass is emptied, whatever is left in the saucer is taken as well.<\/p>\n
Sake is a beverage fermented from rice. It is popularly called rice wine but since it is from a grain, this would make it more of a beer than wine.<\/p>\n
But sake is non-carbonated and tastes more like wine than beer.<\/p>\n
Yanagisawa said sake is uniquely different from wine. It is not distilled and is far from being close to gin and vodka. <\/p>\n
Sake simply means an alcoholic beverage. It has between 15 to 17 percent alcohol content.<\/p>\n
Yanagisawa said more people actually prefer sake than hard drinks because it is healthy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt smoothens the skin. Many beauty products were made of sake,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
It is usually good with fish and other light dishes. <\/p>\n
Experts said that beyond the normal pros and cons of alcohol consumption, sake is free from sulfites. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is also light and comparatively free of hangover-causing congeners,\u201d experts said.<\/p>\n
Further, premium sake is free from additives and preservatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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