Hunky bartenders, decorative drinks and bumping tunes: could you want more? Apparently not, if you’re a young woman with a penchant for pouty selfies – that’s the impression we get after entering Six Sensuality on a recent weekend evening.
Set behind Futian’s Nine Square shopping mall, the bar hovers between cocktail lounge and discotheque, though you won’t catch anyone dancing next to the high, black and white pleather chairs.
Instead, customers can enjoy the best alcohol in the city, or so says professional hype man and manager Carlos Zhou. Though the ingredients of some drinks elude him, he says the high-ish price of RMB95 per glass is justified – and to be fair, they taste the part.
The Moscow Mules – yes, in a copper mug – and Mint Juleps, in ice-encrusted vessels, don’t skimp on the booze, though they both skewer towards the sweet side, as does the plum-wine-based Snow White.
This drink may have a fairy tale appearance, but imbibing is a napkin-intensive affair as a white powder decorates the glass (a furtive lick suggests powdered sugar).
Popular with ‘bosses’ is a drink dubbed the NASDAQ, which arrives in a puff of wood-chip smoke and requires you use a small hammer to smash a rum-filled ice ball, mixing booze with black pepper. A bit much? Yeah. Enjoyable? Enough to be worth RMB95.
Outside seating offers a place to smoke and an escape from the top 40 soundtrack, and, on our visit, is favored by several groups of women – a normal occurrence according to Zhou, who says 70 percent of clientele are female, drawn by the bar’s proximity to a fashionable mall and male wait staff selected for looks.
Finally, how do we say this? Even if this particular bar doesn’t sound like your preferred late-night go-to, there’s a good chance you’ll meet someone who is.
Price: RMB95
Who’s going: single women, recent shoppers
Good for: new friends, strong drinks
Nearest metro: Huaqiang Lu (Exit B), 9 minutes
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