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Liverpool Road in Ashfield is thick with Korean and Japanese grocers and restaurants, and this bottle shop has built its stock around that neighbourhood rather than the standard Australian retail range, with soju and makgeolli alongside sake, shochu, umeshu and Chinese baijiu sitting next to a serious whisky wall. It's the kind of specialist stock that's hard to find outside Sydney's Asian grocery strips, useful for anyone cooking a specific regional meal and wanting the right drink to go with it, as much as for collectors chasing a particular bottling. Long trading hours, ten in the morning until ten at night, seven days, put it in step with the restaurants and late grocers around it rather than standard retail hours. For Inner West locals it functions less as a discount bottle-o and more as the place to find the exact spirit a recipe, or a craving, actually calls for.