On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:17:52 -0700,
Ken Blake wrote:
We have a new Japanese restaurant that recently opened near us.
They serve something they call "box sake." Instead of the usual
small decanter, they pour into a an open-topped wooden box, about
three inches square, from which you then drink. The sake is
supposedly enhanced by the taste of the wood.

Has anyone ever seen this before? Did this place make this up, or
is it common elsewhere and I just didn't know of it?


Our old favorite sushi bar used to do that before it closed. We
don't drink sake, but saw others do it that way...and near the sushi
bar was a small shelf of the wooden boxes with regular customers'
names on it. (At least, I assume they were names, it was in
Japanese.)

I don't recall seeing this custom elsewhere, but then again,
since I don't drink sake I probably wasn't paying close attention.

Ariane