Quinary has introduced a new chapter in its ongoing cocktail exploration, turning attention this time to flavour as a way of capturing memory and place. The project, called The Five Senses: Flavour, follows last year’s The Five Senses: Texture, which examined how touch shapes the drinking experience. This latest edition moves inward, asking how taste can linger, recall moments, and connect to identity.
The bar’s team chose not to rely on familiar recipes but instead built each drink from personal stories tied to Hong Kong’s everyday rhythm. The result is eight cocktails that reflect experiences ranging from temple visits and late-night food rituals to quiet walks along the shoreline. Flavour here is treated as a record of lived moments, a way of translating memory into taste.
Among the collection, Cheeky Float blends Two Moons Five Flowers Tea Gin with sugar cane juice, lime, and ginger beer, inspired by the herbal teas often found in Central. Wish & Wonder draws on the incense and fortune-seeking atmosphere of Wong Tai Sin Temple, combining spiced gin, rice-based spirits, Malibu, cedarwood tincture, and saline. The Heirloom recalls Tai Po’s pearl-diving past through vodka, plum kasuzuke, Japanese apple juice, baijiu, and citrus. Little Nepal reflects the Nepalese community in Jordan, mixing Hennessy VSOP infused with maca root, spiced cacao, grape liquor, rice wine, cream, and sugar.
Other drinks continue this narrative approach. Soupreme reimagines Temple Street’s mock shark’s fin soup with vodka washed in sesame, clarified tomato juice, sherry infused with lantern pepper, and mushroom syrup. O Venice! references Tai O, often called Hong Kong’s Venice, with tequila washed in shrimp oil, mezcal infused with Sichuan pepper, strawberry Campari, crab vinegar, clamato juice, and shiso tincture. Ever After pays homage to Kowloon City’s tong sui tradition, blending rum infused with pumpkin seeds, tropical fruits, and Empirical The Plum. The series closes with Maritime Bay, a whisky-based cocktail layered with nori-infused vermouth, oolong cordial, herbs, and saline, inspired by evening walks along the Tuen Mun shoreline.
Together, these drinks form a continuation of Quinary’s multisensory journey. Where The Five Senses: Texture focused on the surface of experience, The Five Senses: Flavour turns to the inner imprint of taste, showing how a sip can carry stories of heritage, community, and quiet reflection.
Quinary Hong Kong
56, 58 Hollywood Rd, Central, Hong Kong
