Golden Lotus cocktail honors Chinese tea service

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.