Chinese moonshine?!


Question: What is the name of the chinese drink that is like moonshine. It's for special occasions. It's clear & very strong.


Answers: What is the name of the chinese drink that is like moonshine. It's for special occasions. It's clear & very strong.

Rice baijiu (Chinese: 米白酒; pinyin: mǐbáijiǔ); rice fragrance baijiu (米香型白酒), is a variety of distilled beverage popular in China. Unlike other kinds of baijiu, it is distilled mainly from rice rather than from sorghum or other grains. This baijiu also has a characteristic rice fragrance.

One famous brand of rice baijiu is called Sanhua jiu (三花酒; literally "three flower liquor"), which is produced in Guilin.

In Malaysia you find: langkau (Sarawak) and talak/montakou (Sabah). Potent, distilled rice alcohols but home made and sometimes not too pure. Go easy on them!

Tuak is rice wine (in Sarawak); in Sabah that would be lihing, tapai, linotau, tumpung etc

It's rice wine.

Also called Sake by the Japanese and Tuak by the Malaysians.

Saki??

Baijiu (shaojiu)? All alcohol is strong in my opinion, but I think it's clear from what I can remember.

Rice wine made by fermenting glutinous rice, millet, yeast and local water My grandma used to make them and use them for cooking. Some men drink those wine until they got drunk. Eg. sake (rice wine) from Japan, arak in Indonesia & Malaysia, Shao Hsing rice wine in Shaoxin, China.

They are given to mothers as they recuperate after child birth. Commonly served as an ingredient in soup, it is often sipped straight from the bottle, that is, from a cup. It is highly praised as a dietary supplement.





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