By Frans Kunst Translated by Ann Lee

This month's cocktail comes from a small, cozy lounge-style bar called Stir, just off of DunHua South Road. Outside, you will find a nice, small patio. For more privacy, there are cubicles inside. Though Stir looks like a bar, it still serves quite a wide selection of food from a kitchen that is open till 2 a.m Monday to Thursday. On Saturday and Sunday, food is served until 3 a.m. They have perfect Western and Taiwanese food. Behind the bar you will find Benny the bartender. He once was on holiday in Spain and saw an incredibly beautiful girl. It was her that inspired him to create this lovely fruity cocktail. He simply calls it the "Senorita," as he already has a girlfriend and doesn't
want trouble at home.

Bartender: Benny

2 oz of Raspberry juice
0.5 oz of Lime juice
1.5 oz of Raspberry vodka
0.5 oz of Cointreau liquor
1 oz of Melon liquor
5 ice cubes

Directions: Grind four dried plums. Dip the pre-cooled glass upside down into some raspberry juice and than in the ground plums. Strain the cocktail into the glass. Finish it of with a thin slice of lemon peel.

Stir lounge bar
(02) 2708-2968
55, Lane 81, DunHua S Road, Sec 2
Hours: Monday-Thursday 7 pm-
3 am; Friday and Saturday 7 pm-4:30 am(closed Sundays)
No service charge. Credit cards accepted. Parking available. Smoking inside allowed.
Nearest MRT: DaAn station (Brown line)