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I like umeboshi, pickled plums. I often eat rice balls made of umeboshi. Sometimes I drink alcohol with umeboshi.
I make gin and tonic at home. I put lemon in my gin and tonic. Lime is also fine.
One day I put umeboshi in my gin and tonic. It was very tasty and I was surprised. Umeboshi are sour. And salty. This salty taste goes well with sweet tonic water. This summer I was addicted to ume gin and tonic. Now that it's colder, I drink warm gin with umeboshi in it.
Speaking of cocktails made with gin, there is the martini. Martini's often have olives in them, and I think olives and umeboshi taste similar. But if you put olives in warm gin, it doesn't seem to taste very good.
I think umeboshi goes well with warm gin because of the hidden sweetness of the plums. The balance between the bitterness of the gin and the salty-sweetness of the umeboshi is perfect.
In Japan, it is common to mix shochu with hot water and add umeboshi. I don't have shochu in my house, so it's a nice discovery that it tastes good with gin.