Sake

Sake or Saki is Japaness national rice wine.there are some traditional way to serve sake.it is not necessary to outside but it is still important to know as a polite manners.

How to serve sake?

firstly, people have to understand about sake kit.

1. Tokkuri - Ceramic flask used to warm and serve sake, with a narrow neck for retaining heat. Tokkuri come in all shapes and sizes. Click here for a pictorial guide to tokkuri shapes

2. Ochoko - Small sake cups of countless variety, color and shapes. Cup typically broadens at neck to allow the fragrance of the sake to waft gently upward.

3.Guinomi - Small cup often fluted at the edge - a bit bigger than ochoko. Great fun to collect as works of  art.

4. Masu - A square cedar box holding 180ml originally designed as a rice measure. Most people no longer drink from masu, as the smell and flavor of the wood overpower the delicate flavors of today's premium sake

Sake is served in a tokkuri.

Place the full tokkuri in boiling water until it is about body temperature.

Only very expensive sake is served chilled.
Hold the tokkuri with both hands palms facing down.

Fill each guest's cup in turn.

Don't fill your own. It's the guests' duty to ensure that the host's cup is full.
The correct cup to use is a ochoko.
In formal situations you should hold up the cup with one hand, and support the bottom of it with the other as the sake is being served to you