Awamori – Okinawa diaries 1
As promised here comes my first blog entry for Okinawa and yes it is dedicated to awamori.
Awamori – I like how it sounds. It is pure, it is strong and it reminds me about Rakia (a strong Bulgarian beverage). I like it. Just be careful with it. Some of the awamori brands contain 60% alcohol!!! They come in different shapes and forms – bottles, clay vases, clay shisas. I liked the shisas (on the big picture above), we even bought one of them for present. The cheapest bottle is just above 1000 yen (usually a glass of awamori in a hotel bar is between 800 and 1000 yen) but the big clay vase (you’ll see in the picture bellow) was 52 000 yen. Sometimes the awamori has a snake within the bottle (I thought this is only Chinese tradition but apparently it is not, also lets not forget for the very close trading contacts between Okinawa and China at least until the conquering of it by Japan in 17 century).
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