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Speak Low is run by Japanese bartender Shingo Gokan and is one of a tsunami of new Shanghai bars. Prohibition-era bar culture has touched down in China, but this speakeasy does it best.
the hours will fly by as you sit and talk stories with Ueno-san. try the staples: bamboo cocktail, white lady and try the hard-to-find mars maltage too
Artisanal cocktails are slowly becoming the standard in Hong Kong, and Quinary has raised the bar. If you want to drink your dinner, come here!
Ask for something simple to launch the evening. A G&T perhaps. Kayama readies his tools: the highball glass, the botanicals, the 20-litre tank of pressurised gas. he likes to make drinks from scratch.
Set one floor above Humpback oyster bar in a classic Singapore shophouse, Gibson makes an outstanding namesake cocktail with house-cured onion, smoked radish and boiled quail egg garnish.
Neighbouring Grand Matsu Temple is a famed tourist attraction, but as night falls in Tainan it’s a temple to drink, secreted in a nearby labyrinth of alleyways, that draws the crowds.
Open for just a few months Charles H has already become a favourite among the trade in Seoul. Four Seasons went all out on the interior, so you’ve got Korean royal craftsmanship mixed with Korean glam
South Korea’s finest bar is Le Chamber, a luxury splash of chesterfields and chandeliers and enough scotch to make a Scotsman giddy.
If the question is: what is Bangkok’s best speakeasy? Q&A is the answer. In fact, the raison d’être of this bunker bar, despite its sleek, exclusive appearance is demystifying the cocktail experience.
So young it’s barely legal. Its hole-in-the-wall doors opened in Bangkok just last September, but fast-forward a few months and this is where all the cool (very much legal drinking age) kids hang out.
The Royal Bar opened just four years ago, but it comes with some serious heritage. It’s the second incarnation of a spot once famous for serving Tokyo’s best Martinis.
A bamboo shack in the high-rise of Hong Kong, Max Traverse’s homage to tiki has about the largest rum stash in Asia. Go here for fun cocktails but serious drinks.
With a penchant for all things herbal, Trench has been providing a medicinal, if boozy, retreat for Tokyo’s drinking upper classes since 2010.
This hidden bar is at the top of a dark staircase, tucked inside a narrow alley off Wyndham. Like the Tardis, it’s surprisingly large inside for such a modest and hard to find entrance.
Raymond Loewy, would have happily pulled up a chair at this bar. He might even have cast an amused eye at the decorative wall-mounted cigarette machine (he is responsible for the lucky strike logo)
A paragon of bartending skill, Star Bar is to many the best bar in Tokyo. Come here for the figure-of-eight Infinity Shake and ice cut like sculptures.
With bladed, ceiling-mounted fans gently whirring to the easy, jazz-filled atmosphere, this is the colonially-themed bar that lives up to expectation serving outstanding locally inspired drinks
With more Bs than a hive, Union Brasserie, Bakery & Bar. This place does a bit of everything – it’s the all-day dining and drinking experience beloved of Jakartans, whether expat or local.
This is a modern mixologist’s lair where the ingredients include Guinness syrup, blue cheese cognac and camembert salt. It’s barmy and you’ll love it (or hate it).
It’s a hoary old cliche to describe hospitality as giving the feeling of sitting in someone’s living room, but that’s really how it is. You’re at home with husband and wife Takuo and Sumire Miyanohara
