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Tokyo ramen restaurant has 50 kinds of all-you-can-drink sake, unlimited gyoza and fried chicken
- Casey Baseel
May 30, 2018 - Tweet
The sake offer reeled us in, and with the dumplings and karaage, this downtown eatery now basically owns our souls.
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- (alcohol • all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • COK • drinks • food • fried chicken • gyoza • karaage • ramen • restaurants • sake • SNOJ • Tokyo)
Coca-Cola Company releases new line of alcoholic drinks in Japan, and we’ve tried it
- Casey Baseel
May 29, 2018
Hard liquor is a key ingredient in Coca-Cola’s new line of Japan-only canned cocktails.
Why’s my order taking so long? Boss of restaurant mysteriously found dead drunk with employees
- Koh Ruide
May 22, 2018
Customers shocked to find them lying on the ground intoxicated with alcohol.
Two of Japan’s best whiskeys are about to disappear, and no one knows when they’ll be back
- Casey Baseel
May 16, 2018
Suntory had to guess how much whiskey they’d need over a decade ago, and they guessed wrong.
Japanese hotel has rooftop hot spring bath, unlimited sushi and alcohol, costs less than 80 bucks
- Casey Baseel
May 9, 2018
Oh, and there’s also all-you-can-eat crab as part of the deal at this hotel in the coastal onsen resort of Atami.
- Japan
- (alcohol • all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • COK • hot springs • hotels • onsen • SNOJ • sushi • travel)
Tokyo restaurant has all-you-can-drink sake and all-you-can-eat sushi, and all of our love
- Casey Baseel
Apr 25, 2018
Located not far from the Tokyo Skytree, this might just be our favorite place on Earth.
- Japan
- (alcohol • all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • bars • COK • food • restaurants • sake • SNOJ • sushi)
A Beginner’s Guide To Japanese Whiskey
- Viewster
Apr 21, 2018
When you think of whiskey, you probably think – Ireland, Scotland, America, Canada… Probs not thinking Japan.
Salaryman gives drunk female coworker a ride home, gets beaten into unconsciousness for it
- Casey Baseel
Apr 17, 2018
Aftermath of company drinking session proves no good deed goes unpunished.
Young Japanese women like alcohol more than any other age group, almost as much as old men【Survey】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 14, 2018
But for many, their love affair with booze doesn’t seem to last.
Alcoholic Coca-Cola set to go on sale in Japan as company enters the canned cocktail market
- Casey Baseel
Mar 9, 2018
Japan likes its carbonated drinks with a kick, so here comes the Coca-Cola chu-hi.
Goldfish style: The elegant way to drink shochu in Japan
- Krista Rogers
Feb 26, 2018
Drinking method is beautiful to look at–and could help mask the taste of burning alcohol.
12 female sake brewers team up for project to promote their woman-made sake【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 23, 2018
Less than 50 sake breweries in Japan are female-owned, and this crowdfunding project offers a chance to sample brews from a dozen of them.
Akihabara pub offering monthly all-you-can-drink passes with durations up to half a year
- Casey Baseel
Feb 7, 2018
Four other restaurants in Tokyo also start selling unprecedentedly generous unlimited-beer-and-cocktail passes.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • alcohol • all you can drink • beer • izakaya • nomihodai • pubs • restaurants • Tokyo)
Don’t know which sake to drink? These handy flavor charts help you pick by region of Japan
- Casey Baseel
Jan 25, 2018
Here’s a great way to start wading into the deep waters of the sake world.
Fans can toast classic anime Utena’s 20th anniversary with $1,785 bottle of wine, rose liqueur
- Casey Baseel
Jan 25, 2018
They even come with a special Utena glass to pour your drink into.
- Japan
- (alcohol • anime • drinks • Premium Bandai • Revolutionary Girl Utena • roses • wine)
Real-life sake brands become handsome anime boys who promise to “get you drunk” for new series
- Casey Baseel
Jan 25, 2018
Japan’s most popular sake is part of ensemble cast.
Final Fantasy whiskey, 30 years in the making, is here to celebrate the series’ 30th birthday
- Casey Baseel
Jan 22, 2018
But you might need to grind for treasure before you can afford a bottle of this high-priced, high-quality scotch.
- Japan
- (alcohol • drinks • Final Fantasy • Square Enix • video games • Whiskey)
Asahi Super Dry is ready for spring with new cherry blossom packaging, “Sakura Banquet” brew
- Casey Baseel
Jan 20, 2018
Because it’s never too early to start planning what kind of beer to bring to this spring’s cherry blossom viewing parties.
- Japan
- (alcohol • Asahi • Asahi Super Dry • beer • cherry blossoms • cool • drinks • sakura)
Japan’s 100 yen stores have canned energy drink cocktails for under a buck, so we tried one
- Casey Baseel
Jan 16, 2018
Truly, there is nothing you can’t find at Japan’s 100 yen stores.
- Japan
- (100 yen shops • 100-yen stores • alcohol • chi-hi • cocktails • drinks • energy drinks • Lawson Store 100)
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