If you can easily make your own healthy yee sang at home, you can surely make your own fancy drinks too. We’ve covered Malaysian-inspired cocktail recipes before but now it’s time for some Chinese New Year inspiration to take centerstage and alcohol educators RAD Impressions (who conducts regular cocktail-making workshops like this one) has generously shared three easy recipes you can try at home!
Abundant Prosperity
Ingredients
30ml vodka
15ml Rinomato
15ml umeshu (plum wine)
30ml grapefruit tonic
Top Up Tonic
Glassware
Highball
Garnish
Mandarin orange
Method
Build all ingredients in glass with ice.
Dusky Daisy
Ingredients
45ml Scotch
15ml pandan cinnamon syrup
20ml oolong tea
20ml chrysanthemum tea
Glassware
Rock glass
Garnish
Chrysanthemum flower
Syrup
200g Chinese palm sugar
100ml water
2 nos pandan leaf
2 nos cinnamon stick
Make a 2:1 syrup with the Chinese palm sugar. Bring to simmer and add in the pandan leaves and cinnamon stick.
Method
Roll all ingredients. Strain into chilled glass.
Pick A Date
Ingredients
45ml gin
20ml lemon juice
10ml red date & sour plum syrup
Glassware
Martini/Coupe
Garnish
Dried red dates
Syrup
200g instant red date tea
100ml water
Make a 2:1 syrup with instant red date tea.
Method
Shake all ingredients in a shaker. Strain into a chilled glass.
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