Vast shochu selection at Mitsuwa Marketplace in Edgewater, NJ. Easily the largest shochu selection I’ve seen outside of Japan. Really impressive selection.
What to choose?!
I came home with:
Gyokuro – a green tea shochu ($28.99)
Jinkoo – a mugi (barley) shochu from the same distiller ($28.99)
Kagemusha – an imo (sweet potato) shochu ($19.99)
Akanone Ninjin – a carrot shochu ($34.99)
Toki No Kokuin – a rice shochu ($24.99)
Enma – a mugi shochu ($29.99)
Akamaoh – an imo shochu ($24.99)
This represents just a small portion of their selection. I see many, many trips back to Mitsuwa in my future. You should make the trek too if you’re in the area. Besides their impressive shochu selection, they have many Japanese food ingredients that are difficult to impossible to find elsewhere. It’s worth a day trip.
Perhaps the only disappointment with their selection was the extremely limited selection of Awamori with just two brands available, both of which I can find in Manhattan.
Profiles of these new shochus coming soon.
Kampai!