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Newly opened in Tsim Sha Tsui is Fatt’s Place (G/F, No. 2 Hart Avenue, 3421 1144). Located on the busy Hart Avenue, the bar claims to serve the widest selection of international beers in Kowloon along with a range of great American bar food (including a choice of 11 burgers). And if you only feel like snacking, free peanuts are abundant – and you can throw the shells on the floor. Is it really that long ago the theme was ‘Unity’ with parties and promotions galore? As the end first decade of the SAR approaches, what better way to celebrate than with a ‘One Bar, Two Parties’ get together? Devils Advocate (48-50 Lockhart Road, Wanchai 2865 7271) is holding a Devil’s Den Colonial Party on June 30 where all things Hong Kong will be celebrated. The Advocate is also serving a three-course Colonial Dinner Menu on June 30 and July 1 for $128. Also on July 1, having ooohed and aaahed watching millions of dollars go up in sparks and smoke, take yourself off to the post-firework cocktail celebration at 2-4-1. Then on July 7, it’s Pirates on the Pearl as the good junk Devil’s Pearl sets sail in the greatest of Hong Kong traditions to plunder the sea-lanes in a wickedly good time – for bookings details and costs contact the bar on 2865 7271. And now for something completely different as the voice of BBC radio used to say. Post97 (Lan Kwai Fong, 2186 1817) is hosting an evening of dinner jazz with Bonnie Anderson on Sunday July 1. The $500 admission ticket includes two 30-minute shows, a three-course dinner and a glass of bubbly. The fun starts at 8pm. As the Australian Tourist board have been asking “Where The Bloody Hell Are You”, at the Aussie Big Day Out that’s where. Fair dink’um mate, details from Quarterdeck on 2827 8882. Born in Cuba and favourite of Ernest Hemmingway the Mojito is perhaps the perfect summer drink, actually it’s an any time of the year drink, but its refreshing minty flour works extra well in summer. Angel Martinez the original owner of La Bodeguita del Medio in Havana took the humble Cuban working man’s drink – water sweetened with sugar cane and spiked with unrefined rum – and began serving what we now know as the mojito. The recipe is simple take a handfull of mint leaves, one lime cut in sections, a tablespoon of sugar, place in a tall glass and muddle to release the juice of the lime and the oils from the mint, add ice and two shots of white rum, top with soda water, stir… then sit back and enjoy. The mojito at La Bdoeguita del Medio is not that well made, it’s strong with only a
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slight fizz, but the place reeks of history – the walls covered in autographs, photos of Hemingway, touristy T-shirts - and it’s easy to stay and drink some more while chatting with the locals. If you drink mojitos here, they will still be refreshing and enjoyable, but they won’t make you dream of becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. Still, if you want to try, you ought to know that by the time Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea, his rumoured daily alcohol intake – which might put even hardened Hong Kong drinkers to shame - rarely included mojitos. Instead, he drank Scotch in the morning, Papa Dobles (white rum, grapefruit juice and a few drops of maraschino) later on, two bottles of wine with dinner, absinthe in the evening, and Scotch and soda into the early hours. Respect, if you can drink that daily and still write, let alone write a novel. 
