"Award-winning bar director Thi Nguyen and former Daikaya Group beverage director Nalee Kim host the third AAPI Month Cocktail Week with two panel discussions on the AAPI experience in the service industry and inspiring leadership on Sunday, May 18, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.; tickets include a welcome cocktail or nonalcoholic drink. The programming continues the following evening with an industry night and a Chopped-style drink-making competition at Maketto (Monday, May 19, 6 to 9 p.m.), where participating AAPI bartenders will be randomly paired to make a cocktail and a nonalcoholic drink from a box of mystery ingredients, with actual prizes for winners and a raffle." - Emily Venezky