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Douglas Parkes

There have been many new bar openings over the summer – and also imaginative drinks appearing on refreshed menus. Sate your thirst with one of these inventive cocktails, available at three of the best bars in Hong Kong.
Summer nightcaps: 3 Hong Kong cocktails to try

What: The First Quarter
Ingredients: Nikka from the Barrel whisky, fig leaf, raspberry, benzoin, UHT egg white
Where: DarkSide
Potency: 4/5
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What: Bomba Rosa
Ingredients: Tanqueray gin, carbonated watermelon juice, redistilled green tea and yuzu sorbet
Where: Quinary
Potency: 3/5
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What: Honey, Why So Bitter
Ingredients: Imuge 25 per cent, Okinawa Awamori vodka, cucumber and bitter melon juice, honeydew, London Essence tonic
Where: Awa Awa
Potency: 2/5
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The First Quarter cocktail at DarkSide. Photo: Handout

Honey, Why So Bitter cocktail at Awa Awa. Photo: Handout

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Where to try molecular mixology in Hong Kong: upscale Central bars Quinary, The Old Man and even The Pontiac are shaking up the city’s cocktail scene

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The Old Man, the award-winning Central bar which is pioneering molecular mixology in Hong Kong’s nightlife scene. Photo: Jonathan Wong

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Island spirits: native Imuge and Awamori vodka feature in a refreshing drink that offers a taste of the Ryukyu Islands, courtesy of new Central hotspot Awa Awa
Japanese ingredients also show up elsewhere, with yuzu sorbet in Quinary’s Bomba Rosa, and Nikka from the Barrel whisky in DarkSide’s The First Quarter



Sample three of Hong Kong’s best new cocktails: from one of Asia’s 50 Best Bars, one of the hottest of nightspots on Victoria Dockside and from a new Okinawan bar
