Tuesday, August 9, 2011

drink the fatal drop

i take zero responsibility for my last post...i blame it on the absinthe&bacardi 151 that was combined in one shot: the lamborghini. as usual, i was complaining that i wasn't drunk enough so chris made sure that i get the strongest shot they have. the presentation was beautiful, the aftermath not so much. the waiter came over with a martini glass full of brown liquor (the first sign that this would be a disaster...i tend to stick with clear alcohol). he placed a bottle opener on top of the glass and balanced a bottle of alcohol on it. he then poured more alcohol over the bottle, letting trickle run down the sides of the bottle and into the glass. then he lit it on fire, put it out while capturing the smoke in a glass, and then made me drink it while pouring a shot of absinthe into the rum. literally choked because it burned so much. oh and there was no chaser. i died.

keep in mind this is after three rounds of drinks...one of which was a series of five shots (equally as unique). the bar is called Fourplay & what makes it so unique is that they don't have a drink menu. all of the drinks are created on the spot by the owner and all you do is tell him how you want your drink (sour, strong, sweet, no tequila were all adjectives we used when ordering). good thing we went with Dan, who has lived in Taiwan for over a year, because he knew to order the series of "drug shots". there are 5 shots that each represent a different drug and are presented in a different way served in order from weakest to strongest...
  1. marijuana: came in a pipe with dry ice creating smoke, Candice took this one
  2. ketamine: the waiter cut up a "line" of sugar to accompany the multi colored shot-sugar was for eating, not snorting lol, Chris got this one
  3. amphetamine: the waiter did something crazy with fire and created this gas that I had to snort through a straw after taking the shot of god know what
  4. cocaine: again involving fire, the waiter did something to make sparklers off the glass and mixed some alcohol which Mel drank out of a straw
  5. heroin: three syringes filled with red, blue and yellow alcohol...the waiter poured them into Chris' mouth one after the other and then gave him some martini glass full of blue chaser
definitely the most creative set of shots i have ever had, presented as if it were a show or something. also really unique was the flavors for mojito's...they had a bowl of fresh fruit to chose what flavor to make it...i chose lychee and it tasted just like the fruit. when we left, our drunk asses thought it was a good idea to get more beer and snacks at 7/11. shotgunning a 6 pack of beer was just excessively dumb, but i don't regret the chips (tomato flavored fries and spicy chips).

i didn't bring my camera so don't have any pics, but that's probably a good thing ;) 

moral of the story: NEVER AGAIN will i allow someone to "surprise me" at a bar. i should have learned my lesson in Rome when we asked the bar tender to surprise us and i ended up with a blue concoction that left me immobile the next day. similar story here, but a little less fatal. 

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