Shochu with a hand carved ball of ‘natural ice’
WRITTEN BY: Founder WRITTEN ON: June 2. 2008Have you ever had shochu with a hand carved ball of ‘natural ice’?
Rarely seen or even heard about… you can now experience here.
Served at a high end restaurant in Japan called Ryugin, the author describes the experience of sipping shochu with it. Sounds amazingly pure.
They use almost paper thin glassware and I learned from my brother (who gave me one of those “ignorant foreigner” looks) that most upscale restaurants only use “natural” ice. Well might you ask what “natural ice” means. It means exactly what it says. It comes from inside a cold mountain somewhere. Apparently freezer made ice, even a clear one, just doesn’t cut it. What was amazing at Ryugin was that instead of chunks chipped off the block, when you order shochu on the rocks, you get a hand carved ball of ice.
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