On weekends, friends and customers of Charles Ng and Joan Lim have a habit of messaging them screenshots of sake menus in restaurants, asking them what they should order.
“There was this big disconnect between the food and the beer selection, which I could not wrap my mind around. I said to myself: There are so many great Japanese beers. Why don’t the restaurants here serve them?” The couple started bringing in sakes after restaurants and customers began asking for them during the pop-up. Although they were not very familiar with sake at the time, they decided to explore this segment and sought out some breweries.
For example, one of Epicurean Nomads’ sake brands, Nabeshima – a sake brewery based in Kyushu’s Saga Prefecture – was the result of a two-year pursuit. They had first tried its sake after a friend brought a bottle back from Japan. “We had never tasted a sake this good,” recalled Ng. Two days later, while they were in Tokyo Station, amid its gargantuan complex – a city in itself – where more than half a million commuters weave through its passages and platforms daily, they bumped into Nagai-San, face to face.
Ng also likes supporting the rising star; the non-conformist. One of his favourite brands in his portfolio is Taka from Nagayama Honke brewery in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
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