maotai

To: All fyi, sorghum can be fermented and distilled to produce maotai, which is regarded as one of the china's most famous liquors.

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Yet China seemed to exert a seductive influence, such that even staunch anti-Communists like Attlee softened once they found themselves toasting with maotai under red tasseled lanterns.

Early Orientations Raymond Zhong 2011

The menu won't be familiar: "lumpy dough soup" in a tomato stock (Ge Da Tang); sliced pork sausage marinated in the fiery Chinese liquor maotai (Zi Zhi Jui Kao Xiang Chang); a rich fish-stomach soup (Nong Tang Yu Du Si) and, most delicious of all, duck meat and chives rolled into crepes and deep-fried (Ya Si Dan Juan).

The World's Best Chinese Food 2008

Monkey brains, sea slugs and “Thousand-Year-Old-Eggs” are just 3 of the dozen or so delicacies typically served at these affairs … plus a very nasty plum wine and a paint-peeling, sorghum-based 130-proof liquor called maotai.

Think Progress » White House officials seek Bloomin’ Onion of the Far East. 2005

To connoisseurs, China's best liquors are those made from sorghum - the famous (or infamous) maotai and samshu, for example.

10. Sorghum: Specialty Types 1996

And when they still did not become unglued, he made the girl drink a lot of maotai, until she was a senseless drunk.

The Kitchen God's wife Tan, Amy 1991

Anyone seeking the full Nixon experience will naturally want to down a shot of maotai, which the restaurant will be pouring for $25 for a tiny cup.

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Henry A. Kissinger, stand and toast with tiny glasses of red stuff, supposedly Chinese maotai.

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Mr. Tong said maotai has become very expensive and is much in demand, particularly around the Lunar New Year.

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Margaret MacMillan, an aide to Dr. Kissinger had tasted maotai on an advance trip and, gravely concerned about its effect on Nixon, cabled back a warning: "Under no repeat no circumstances should the president actually drink from his glass in response to banquet toasts."

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