Until May 9 2021
Here s a boozy gift that mum might enjoy and appreciate. Central s speakeasy-style bar The Poet is reopening their doors so you can treat mums who are in dire need of a break – your mum, your sister, your friend, or yourself – to a special Mother s Day cocktail-making workshop where you can get hands-on with crafting alcoholic treats. The bar has been temporarily closed due to the social distancing restriction, but they re making use of this sweet downtime to create exciting workshops for anyone to enjoy. The two-hour workshop ($650/person) will include a mini flower bouquet and allow participants to craft a signature cocktail using The Poet s tea-infused gin, a mocktail, and a special Mother s Day cocktail called Pearl that will be bottled for you to bring home. Canapés that include asparagus wraps with ham and lemon mayo, cucumber and feta cheese with yoghurt sauce, and lime pickled melon will be served during the session.
It has been over a year of Covid-19 in Hong Kong and it can sometimes feel hard to remember what life was like before the pandemic. But, with the vaccine rollout currently forging ahead, there is hope that those times aren’t lost forever, and that we won’t be eternally stuck in a world of Zoom meetings, social distancing and face masks.
Luckily, we live in a city where we have multiple vaccine brands available to us and the process is quick and free of charge. The vaccines are exciting for us, and with summer approaching and low Covid-19 numbers being reported, it s given us all hope that Hong Kong is finally on the road to recovery. One day soon, we’ll find ourselves doing what we were doing just two years ago.
In a bid to minimise mislabelling and confusion over what can be called Japanese whisky, the Japan Spirits and Liqueurs Makers Association have just announced that new regulations defining the product will come into effect from April 1, 2021. The new rules set out terms that are painfully obvious but never enforced: “Japanese whisky” needs to use raw ingredients extracted in Japan; in terms of the production method, everything from the fermentation to ageing (for a minimum of three years) and bottling must be carried out in Japan. Pundits have seen it as an attempt to tackle the problem of misleading bottle labelling that is now rife in the industry, as the terms also prohibit operators from using labels that incorporate items such as names of people, cities, regions and so on that evoke Japan, unless it is explicitly explained that the product does not meet the requirements to be labelled as Japanese whisky.
With so much already being put on hold, Elliot Faber, founder of Sake Central, and his fiancé Tiffany Ung decided that their commitment to each other wasn’t going to be one of them.
“I had all these visions of grandeur to [propose] in Japan or on a plane, but of course, because of Covid, we couldn’t travel,” says Faber, who proposed to Ung at The Peak in April. “I had the ring, so I just did it. It was my way of saying Covid can’t get in the way of true love and doing what we want to do, even if it’s in an adapted, safe and responsible way.”