Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass halfway filled with ice cubes. Stir well with a bar spoon and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cucumber slice and serve.

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Saketini is the name of a cocktail that uses sake and other ingredients such as simple syrups, distilled spirits, liqueurs, juices and garnishes. The name saketini comes from the recent and popular usage of the suffix "-tini", derived from the name for the classic cocktail, the martini, to denote any alcoholic drink that is served chilled in a cocktail glass. Arriving in Queens for the World's Fair in 1964, Matsuda San unveiled to an excited crowd a primitive version of the saketini. The original recipe was lost until Matsuda resurfaced at Clodagh Design Showroom in the early 90s to serve the world of design his original saketini. Preceding the resurgence in popularity of the martini in the early 2000s, people began using sake as a mixer in cocktails. Many modern twists on the traditional martini recipe have been made including the introduction of vodka to replace gin as the main ingredient, flavored martinis such as the appletini, the cosmopolitan and the saketini. Saketini is also the name of a popular restaurant in Los Angel...

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