Close Out CNY With This Lucky Cocktail
The last day of the Chinese New Year holiday may have already come to pass, but why not send it off with a lucky tipple in the form of this special recipe from Finders Keepers, a swanky speakeasy bar hidden within the business section of a mall close to Workers’ Stadium?
Titled Happily Ever After, owner and head bartender Yang Yang says the drink is a play on the auspicious homophone for the characters 桔 jú as found in 桔子 júzi, the word for kumquat, and 吉 jí, which means luck. The cocktail works to utilize kumquats in a more refreshingly alcoholic way, making it a kind of gin and tea-spiked sour.
Ingredients
60ml London dry gin (preferably Gordon’s)
50ml Vita Lemon Tea drink
15ml rich honey syrup*
25ml fresh lemon juice
Juice from half a kumquat
Garnish: half a caramelized kumquat**
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Method
Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake with ice for 20-30 seconds.
Strain into a cocktail glass filled with ice.
Garnish with the caramelized kumquat.
*To make the honey syrup: in a small saucepan, combine 100ml of honey with 50ml of water over low heat. Stir until combined and honey is thinned. Let stand and cool before putting in a refrigerator-safe container. Will last for one month.
**To caramelize the kumquat half: Take a sliced kumquat half and, using a match or stick lighter, burn the fruit until it is tinged golden brown.
Finders Keepers
10-1-112 East Avenue Apartments, Xindong Lu, Chaoyang District
朝阳区新东路逸盛阁10号楼一层112室
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