1.   They drank hot sake from tiny porcelain cups, and Rachel felt light-headed from the potent Japanese alcohol.

2.   He gets together regularly with friends to drink sake and read poems on a set topic, and he says those meetings are transcendental experiences.

3.   Omichi said he also thinks health-obsessed Americans feel drinking sake might not be so bad for them.

4.   They simply go on picnics, eat food, drink sake, and look at the cherry blossoms.

5.   Wada was drinking cold sake he described as light.