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TAICHUNG DINING FEATURE
COMPASS MAGAZINE, September 2003
 

Cocktail of the month

By Elizabeth Cheng
Translated by Kevin Lax

Bar: G Down
Bartender: Zhang Shi-bin
Cocktail: Sakura

It's not hard to find fruit cocktails in lounge bars, but the Sakura cocktail has been ingeniously created by the bar staff at G Down and is especially evocative of Tokyo. At the start of the interview it seemed strange that the bartender was using sake as a base for a cocktail. It turned out that to begin with the bartender was just helping his friend promote sake, and accidentally created the Sakura that is now a house specialty.

At first tasting, sakura has a sweet fruit taste, without the sharpness of sake. As I held a large martini glass, reminding myself of Cary of "Sex In The City," I relaxed with friends on a Friday night in a comfortable bar, laughing occasionally in a slightly tipsy way, it occurred to me that the Sakura is not just a cocktail, but also a kind of classy fashion statement for mature women.

Ingredients:
1.4/3 ounce of melon liquer
2.0.5 ounces of orange liquer
3.0.5 ounces of sake
4.0.5 ounces of syrup
5.0.5 ounces of fresh lemon juice
6. an iced glass

Put ice in a cocktail shaker, then put the above ingredients in the shaker in the above order. Shake it up and pour into a martini glass, and off you go...

 

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