"Reception Bar owner Katie Rue brought her Korean American background to her soju bar located in the Lower East Side, where she experiments with Korean ingredients and spirits to tell a story of what it means to be Asian American. What started as a family-style, multi-course dinner series at Rue’s apartment turned into a community-based bar where she hopes to recreate some of the interpersonal connections between patrons that were so central to the dinner series. The cocktails are made with Korean spirits like soju and makgeolli and incorporate fresh traditionally Asian ingredients like chrysanthemum and osmanthus. We particularly like the Cereal Milk and Melon Dew drinks, which are both makgeolli-based. The Cereal Milk is made with walnut milk, rice orgeat, jujube honey, and chocolate walnut bitters and remind us of the milk leftover from a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, whereas the Delon Dew keeps it simple with honeydew and honey and tastes like a crossover between a Melona bar and a cucumber agua fresca." - izzy chen, with warm welcome, neha talreja, bryan kim
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