sake master blog
This year's Melbourn Food & Wine Festival is seeing a come back of famous
HAWKERS MARKET (!!) for 3 nights from Mon 15 March to Wed 17 March @ Queen Victoria Market. The year's event theme is "Taste and Experience the flavours and fragrances of Asia" so you would be able to choose from the selected top 30 Hawkers dishes cooked by 12 famous asian restaurants ifrom all over Melbounrne at once.
SAKE & GRILL MAEDAYA is proudly joinging this event for the first time and providing our signature dish Charcoal Grilles Skewers
TSUKUNE combined with our favorite beer partner
EDAMAME as your first choise. For Vegetarian hawkers, we provide a set of our famous
OKONOMIAYAKI (Japanese veg pancake ) & Japanese traditional sweet caramelized potato
DAIGAKU IMO so you won't miss them at all.
Also, we are having
SAKE COCKTAIL stand next to it and we are making 3
different Sake Cocktail, Choya Umeshu plum wine & Warm Sake as you would like to try.
Go to find more about the event at
http://www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au/the-festival/a-focus-on-melbourne-events/heat-beads-reg-hawkers-marketLook foward to seeing you next week at The Hawkers Market!
Hello,
As I promised to a few people before, finally we are introducing a Japanese Whisky Tasting Special at MAEDAYA from Today, 2 March!
The line up is a super strong & super premium as below.
1:
NIKKA YOICHI - Original Single Malt Whisky Made in Nikka Whisky's Birth City "YOICHI"
2:
SUNTORY YAMAZAKI - Japan's Original Whisky Distiller Suntory's 12 Years Old Premium Single Malt
3:
SUNTORY HIBIKI - 17 Years Old Multi Blended Super Premium Whisky
Also, we are introduing Japanese Rum KOKUTO SHOCHU (Brown Sugar Made Shochu) from southern islands in Kagoshima prefecture.
4: KIKAIJIMA KOKUTO SHOCHU - Very clean, smooth & sweet flavoured shochu. Reasonable price.
5: ASAHI KOKUTO SHOCHU - Premium Kokuto Shochu with sweet fragrance, full of richness & a little bit of bitterness.
Come and try these specials at Maedaya.
LIMITED TIME ONLY!!
Sake & Grill MAEDAYA is featured in an article called IZAKAYA RISING on a Melbourne's first independent online magazine
BROADSHEET which has been launched just yesterday!
www.broadsheet.com.auThe story is about a new IZAKAYA style restaurants recently opened in Melbourne such as Izakaya Den in Russel St & Izakaya Ichi Ni in St Kilda along with
Sake & Grill MAEDAYA in Richmond.
Congratulations for Broadsheet launch & thank you very much for featuring Maedaya!
Tomorrow 14 April is my restaurant Sake & Grill MAEDAYA’s 1st Anniversary!
It’s already 1 year since we opened MAEDAYA and I can’t believe how soon it was. I feel like the time goes twice faster since I hit age 30. Anyway, I would like to say a big thank to everyone who supported MAEDAYA for last 12 months including all our friendly staff, suppliers & especially our very important customers. I am sure MAEDAYA isn’t what it is now without your help.
To appreciate your support, we would like to offer you some special service during MAEDAYA 1st ANNIVERSARY WEEK (Tue 14 April to Sat 18 April).
At ground floor Yakitori Izakaya sake bar, I would like to come up to all tables by myself and offer you some free sake that is MAEDAYA 2008’s most popular sake AWA TENSUI HEAVEN’S WATER. (Unfortunately this sake no longer will be imported to Australia.)
Also at upstairs Yakiniku Japanese BBQ restaurant, our famous floor manager HIRO will serve you some free hand made hot desert that is called MITARASHI DANGO, the skewered rice balls grilled over charcoal and dipping into a sweet soy sauce.
Please come and celebrate MAEDAYA 1st ANNIVERSARY with us this week.
Thank you very much again for all your support and hope to see you soon!
Good Morning!
I have a very special announcement today, Mon 6 April. My restaurant Sake & Grill MAEDAYA will start a wider new menu from today!! It’s simply bigger and more items than it used to be for both food & drinks.
For food section, we have added extra 30% items on top of our original menu. There are almost 70 dishes including spicy tapas such as Kimchi Tofu & Tan Tan Noodle and new Otsumami dishes such as Takoyaki Gratin & Agedashi Mochi as well as more salad dishes such as Salt & Pepper Squid Salad & Buta Shabu Shabu Salad. Of course, our most signature dishes Tsukune & Yakitori charcoal grill skewers are still strong and there.
For drink section, we have added 3 more new sake by the glass ( Suishin Junmai, Tateyama Junmai Ginjo & Kitanohomare Nigori) and more than 20 new sake by the bottle. (Nihonshu total 57 labels!) Also, both SUNTORY MALTS & PREMIUM MALTS are on menu now as standard beer choices (beer total 9 labels) as well as new Shochu bottle such as KUROUMA & TANTAKATAN (Shochu total 25 labels!). The highlight of new drink menu will be my original recipe SAKE COCKTAIL 31. (total 31 types!) There are some classic cocktails mixed with Sake such as DRY SAKETINI & BLOODY SAMURAI (You can imagine its simply tomato juice & Sake!). Also already very popular Choya plum wine cocktails such as GEISHA WHISPER & BRIDGE CONNECTION are there as standard choices for you.
Please come along and try MAEDAYA new much wider menu today!
Sake & Grill MAEDAYA
400 Bridge Road, Richmond
03-9428-3918
(Tram #75 & 48, Stop 20, from Flinders St City towards Kew & Hawthorn)
*MAEDAYA APRIL CLOSING DAY
Fri 10 – Good Friday
Sun 12 – Easter Sunday
Mon 13 – Easter Monday
Sat 25 – Anzac Day
Plus every Sundays
This time, I would like to introduce one of my favorite Daiginjo to you.
HANARANMAN KOMACHI DAIGINJO is one of the best products comes from Ranman Shuzo in Akita. It has a beautiful flowery aroma with a honey sweet & rich body. It’s perfect sake to start a meal with or even after the meal as a desert. Usually we only sell by a bottle but this time, we will offer you a glass size for you to enjoy tasting.
Also, a new comer in our Shochu collection is
TANTAKATAN, Shiso Japanese mint Shochu from Hokkaido. It has a very smooth touch on your palate with a slight sour taste just like Japanese plum. It’s so easy to drink on the rock even during the meal.
Please come and try the new products from Japan at Maedaya. Limited time only so don’t miss out !!
MAEDAYA SAKE OF THE MONTH (MARCH 2009)
HANARANMAN KOMACHI DAIGINJO (AKITA / 16% ALC) $18.00 a glass
VERY LIMITED GLASS SELL OFFER!
SHISO SHOCHU TANTAKATAN (HOKKAIDO / 20% ALC) $8.50 a glass
ALSO BOTTLE SELLING AVAILABLE ($65.00 a bottle)
Happy Sipping!
Valentine’s Day Kiss
This coming Sat 14 Feb is a special day for the lovers known as St Valentine’s Day. In Japan, it is the day for female to give a chocolate to a male as a statement of LOVE, but here in Australia, it’s more likely a day for male to treat female with extra love.
At Maedaya, I will make a special sake cocktail to make your day even more special. It’s called “Valentine’s Day Kiss”. (If you were living in Japan late 80’s, you know what I picked up a name from.) It’s a strawberry flavoured Shochu spirit on the rocks garnished with Japanese cherries. It’s sweet & tasty and you can share one glass between two of you nicely.
To taste this special cocktail, there is one thing you need to do. At 7:15pm & 9:30pm, Maedaya both floors,we will have Cheek to Cheek Time. You just have to show us how much you love each other by kissing on your cheeks. Don’t be shy and just do as you feel.
It’s a special dinner with your special person & having a special cocktail to share.
Come and Try Maedaya Valentine’s Day Special
In Maedaya, we have 26 small boxes with key locks. It’s called SAKE LOCKER and it is simply for keeping an opened sake bottle for the customers to finish up at the next visit.
There are some rules for SAKE LOCKER.
- Sake needs to be Shochu or Umeshu bottle. Because it will be kept in room temperature, no air conditioned box, we can only keep Spirits such as Shochu or Umeshu.
- If you really want to keep your opened Nihonshu (rice wine) bottle, now we will keep your bottle in Sake Locker up to 2 weeks (but NO GUARANTEE FOR ITS QUALITY CHANGE after 2 weeks)
- You have to come back to Maedaya to finish your bottle in 2 months after the bottle opening date. (Otherwise, your bottle will be thrown away by sake master.)
- Your locker key is kept safely by sake master so you have to leave your name & contact number for identification.
- One person can have one locker only.
Generally, bottle keep service is common in Japanese pubs. Of course, if you drink sake by bottle, it’s a lot cheaper than by the glass so if you know which sake to drink, it’s better for you to order by bottle. (Especially when you can keep it in your own locker until the next visit.)
At the moment, we have 8 Sake Lockers available. Now is a time for you to own your Sake Locker for the first time. Of course, you can feel free to ask me for any questions & suggestion to choose a right sake bottle. (Sometime, we have a secret Special of the Month too.)
For the first MAEDAYA SAKE OF THE MONTH in 2009, I would like to introduce
Shochu & Awamori as Special Sake Tasting. Shochu is a Kyusyu area’s traditional distilled spirit and the average alcohol contain is 25%. It is stronger in flavour than Sake (rice wine) so people in Japan often drink it with ice rocks or water mix.
Awamori is Okinawa’s traditional distilled spirit and it is said the oldest distilled alcohol invented in Japan. Awamori has been consumed in Okinawa since 15 century.
Same as Shochu, you can drink Awamori with ice rocks or water mix. My friend in Okinawa told me that the younger people tend to drink Awamori mixed with ice & water and the older people tend to drink it straight or with ice in general.
Both Shochu & Awamori go well with meals, especially with fully tasted food, so please try a Special Sake Tasting at the start and pick up your favourite one for your main meal.
Also, finally we have Japan’s finest single malt whisky
SUNTORY YAMAZAKI 12 YEARS OLD in stock. Made from the finest malted barley, pure water and special yeast stains, aged in 3 different oak barrels, American, Spanish & Japanese for 12 years, SUNTORY YAMAZAKI 12 YEARS OLD has the beautiful aromas of dried fruits and a bit of honey. Taste is very delicate, mellow with woody dry finish. It is a perfect option to finish up your meal. Please come and try this absolute masterpiece of Japanese nature and craftsmenship. (It will be available on Sake Japan very soon!)
MAEDAYA SAKE OF THE MONTH (JAN 2009)
SAKE TASTING SPECIAL (Shochu & Awamori) 3 glasses for $8.00 only!
1: Ihyumon (Kumamoto / 25% ALC) Sweet & Fragrant, Barley Shochu
2: Kiwami (Hyogo / 25% ALC) 3 years barrel aged Japanese Bourbon style Shochu
3: Kariyoshi (Okinawa / 30% ALC) Okinawa style Awamori spirit
SUNTORY YAMAZAKI 12 YEARS OLD (Kyoto / 43% ALC) $7.50
Time goes so quickly. It’s already the end of 2008 and yes, we are all ready for eating & drinking!
At MAEDAYA, we have some new Nihonshu for you to try and a new sake cocktail for summer refreshing. Also, I am so happy to announce that our very favorite Japanese beer
REIJO PREMIUM (Niigata) is back in stock! Please come and try the finest sake action you could find in a town at MAEDAYA!
MAEDAYA SAKE OF THE MONTH (DECEMBER PART 1)
NIHONSHU
SPECIAL SAKE TASTING $14.50
1: KAGANOTSUKI GEKKO JUNMAI DAIGINJO (ISHIKAWA)
2: AWANO TENSUI JUNMAI GINJO (TOKUSHIMA)
3: KITANOHOMARE NIGORI OYADAMA (HOKKAIDO)
SAKE COCKTAIL
SUDACHI HIGH BALL $8.00
Healthy Japanese citrus SUDACHI sake mixed with soda water. Very refreshing and good to start a meal with
http://www.sakejapan.com.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=54097719
JAPANESE BEER
SUNTORY PREMIUM MALTS $8.50
SUNTORY DIET $6.50
SUNTORY DIET $4.80
KINSHACHI BEER RED MISO $11.50
KINSHACHI BEER BLUE DRY PILSNER $10.50
YES! REIJO PREMIUM (NIIGATA) $6.50 is BACK IN STOCK!!
