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It is sometimes used to accompany sushi. Mirin is also an ingredient in other sauces: Kabayaki (grilled eel) sauce: mirin, soy sauce, sake, sugar, fish bone (optional) [12] Nikiri mirin sauce: soy sauce, dashi, mirin, sake, in a ratio of 10:2:1:1; Sushi su (sushi rice vinaigrette): rice wine vinegar, sugar, nikiri mirin sauce; Teriyaki sauce [6]
The word shōchū is the Japanese rendition of the Chinese shaojiu (燒酒), meaning "burned liquor", which refers to the heating process during distillation. [2] The Chinese way of writing shaojiu with the character 酒 means sake in modern Japanese, which writes shōchū using the character 酎 instead.
Sake bottle, Japan, c. 1740 Sake barrel offerings at the Shinto shrine Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū in Kamakura Sake, saké (酒, sake, / ˈ s ɑː k i, ˈ s æ k eɪ / SAH-kee, SAK-ay [4] [5]), or saki, [6] also referred to as Japanese rice wine, [7] is an alcoholic beverage of Japanese origin made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran.
Because of its clarity, baijiu can appear similar to several other East Asian liquors, e.g. Japanese shōchū (25%) or Korean soju (20–45%), but it often has a significantly higher alcohol content (35–60%).