Food

Golden Lotus cocktail honors Chinese tea service

By Janna Karel / Las Vegas Review-Journal

December 14, 2018 - 12:39 am

Golden Lotus (Janna Karel/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

The Cosmopolitan’s newest restaurant, Red Plate, serves a cocktail that honors Chinese tea service. A carafe of gin-and-lychee-forward cocktail is served alongside hot jasmine tea. Pour both over an ice sphere for a “fire and ice” experience.

Ingredients

■ 1½ ounces Suntory Roku gin

■ ½ ounce Soho lychee liqueur

■ 2 ounces H20 Apple Rosewater

■ ½ ounce ginger syrup

■ ¾ ounce lemon

■ 1 ounce Yuzu Sour

■ Jasmine blooming tea flower

Garnish

■ Firestix

Instructions

Shake first six ingredients with ice and strain into carafe. Serve with cup containing ice sphere along with teapot with Jasmine tea flower and hot water.

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