Bartenders strut their stuff in cocktail competition

Shanghai, one of China's most international cities, hosted the China Final of BACARDÍ Legacy Global Cocktail Competition last week on the landmark Bund.

A local mixologist, 25-year-old Song Qiu, grabbed first place with a cocktail named Black Gold, which uses ingredients that grow in extremely difficult environments, such as ginseng and truffles, to echo both a bartenders' life and the competition's 2016 theme, "with untamable passion comes enduring legacy".

"I believe that we are like gold that lights up the nightlife in bars," says the winner, known at work as Choni Song, "We bartenders work at night, and as bartenders we must pay attention to details in order to understand and entertain our customers, to help them relax and feel secure, especially women customers."