Enter Kimmie of Blue Paper Lanterns who rallied up Katrina of Demure Muse and myself for a yummy Vietnamese dinner in the International District, followed
by Katrina's favorite thing in the world, and something Fran had never tried in her life:
bubble tea.
For the bar, Bombay Sapphire's North American Ambassador Gary Hayward designed a special spirits menu, featuring special crafted cocktails like: the «Bombay
Bubble Bath» inspired
by the history of making gin in bathtubs in the late 1600s, and served to guests in a small bathtub made of ice; and «The Emperor Strikes Back» inspired
by Emperor Shun Nung's discovery of
tea in 2732 B.C., and made with the use of white
tea, Asian pear, coconut water, Asian pear, and xanthan gum powder.