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Hong Kong drinks brands collaborate to serve up gin, liqueur-based cocktails with a local flavour
- Two Moons, Magnolia Lab and Dr. Fern’s Gin Parlour are some of the drink brands collaborating to make cocktails infused with traditional Chinese medicine
- The arts feature too, as Perfume Trees unites with photographer Fan Ho. Brand founders want to capture the spirit of the city and forge a ‘sense of community’
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A master of light and shadow, the late photographer Fan Ho is known for his evocative imagery depicting Hong Kong in the mid-20th century. He died in 2016, but his legacy and oeuvre of iconic black-and-white photographs continue to be celebrated.
From now until January 1, 2023, eight of Ho’s more experimental and abstract works will be on display at Tankyu Distillery Tasting Room at The Mills in Tsuen Wan, in a collaboration between Blue Lotus Gallery and Hong Kong gin brand Perfume Trees called “Between Reality and Dreams”.
The spirits company, launched in 2018, has built its brand around the romance of art and poetry; the name Perfume Trees aims to evoke the olfactory memory of Hong Kong’s white champaca trees.
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In this new collaboration, the wistfulness of Ho’s photographs inspired the creation of the limited edition Pale Ink – a whisky-barrel-aged, sugar-free coffee liqueur – which features on the bottle a print of the image of Hong Kong Venice, 1962 2011 – one of Ho’s later experiments using his old negatives.
Fans of locally crafted spirits can also head to the K11 Musea mall in Tsim Sha Tsui from November 24 to 30, where Cantonese liqueur brand Magnolia Lab will be working its first pop-up cocktail bar and collaborating with three more home-grown brands that focus on herbaceous beverages.
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