Imo Sochu
Corbett | December 31, 2004 11:47 AM
Jeroen stopped by last night, and this was an excellent excuse to break out the bottle of Imo Sochu that Aoki-san and 88 brought from Japan. "Young people very much like to drink this now in Tokyo. Very fashionable."
For those in the know, Sochu is the Korean killer drink of choice, consumed in vast quantities before you get into a fight in a bar with Marines in Seoul. It's like sake, but not, and it's like vodka, but not. And it's image and flavors are changing...
The version we were drinking was a very tasty sweet potato sochu which is apparently a drink of choice among trendsetters in Tokyo. All I know was that the first one was hesitant (from horrible Korean experience), the second one was tasty, the third one damn tasty, and the fourth one really damn tasty.
Being the sensible adults we were, we stopped drinking...until we started feeling bad for not asking our new buddy, Imo, back to the table. Eventually we had a fifth, maybe more, which was just like catching up with an old friend we hadn't seen in a while.
Watch out for Imo.
Category: Mr. Asia
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Christofu
January 1, 2005 4:47 AM
Wooo... I wanna try... bring one back to the US next time you visit!
Jeroen
January 24, 2005 6:05 PM
Thanks again for the drinks dude. Definitely very tasty and much less painful than the traditional Korean version (especially the next day...). That night i moved on to an ill-advised Karaoke session afterwards - i think the other people in the room could have used some soju (or earplugs)...