HK Magazine’s Hong Kong Drinking Games

GAME 1: The Hipster Cocktail Drinking Game

Take a sip if:

• A centrifuge and/or liquid nitrogen was required to make your drink.
• Your drink or its ingredients contain any of the following words/phrases: “barrel-aged,” “craft,” “infused,” “in-house,” “artisan,” “foam.”
• Your drink contains ingredients that you cannot buy in Hong Kong.
• Not even in City’super.
• If the bartender is more handsome than your most handsome ex-boyfriend. (At this point, you may also tongue your straw suggestively.)

Down your drink if:

• It’s actually fucking disgusting. Then go order a beer.
• Your drink has a subtly misogynistic name and you get a stupid thrill out of ordering it out loud.
• You hear people comparing your bar unfavorably to the most amazing little dive in Brooklyn/Shoreditch/the Hutongs.
• You just willingly paid $160 for a goddamned shot and a mixer. And now you have to down it, you dick.

Ping Pong is so hip its trousers are around its shoulders

Hipster bars to visit while wearing a keffiyeh:

Fatty Crab
Say this: “Fatty Cue WHO? Picklebacks all round!”
11 Old Bailey St., Central, 2521-2033.

Quinary
Say this: “Listen, you have not LIVED until you’ve tried Antonio’s Earl Grey Caviar Martini.”
56-58 Hollywood Rd., Central, 2851-3223.

Little Lab
Say this: “This is the real deal: made-in-Hong Kong concoctions. If you can’t pair it with a pig’s foot, it’s not worth ordering.”
50 Staunton St., Central, 2858-8580.

The Black Star
Say this: “What these guys don’t know about negronis isn’t worth knowing. Please will you sleep with me now? Please? I really like Broken Social Scene, you know.”
81 Wing Lok St., Sheung Wan, 2399-0207.

Ping Pong 129
Say this: “Uh, what do mean you haven’t been to Ping Pong yet? It’s been open for a month already. Besides, didn’t you read that New York Times piece? SYP is over, darling.”
129 Second St., Sai Ying Pun, 9158-1584.

GAME 2: Should I Go To Wan Chai?