Summer brings us so many great festivals and food events, one of which is a brand new week-long Taste of Orient designed to showcase rare ingredients in cocktails from Asia.

The new week-long cocktail festival is coming to London from 22nd to 28th June, built around rare and remarkable Asian flavours, culture and craft.

Taste The Orient is a city-wide event from The Orientalist Spirits and the team behind London Cocktail Week, bringing together 45 of the capital’s Asian bars, exclusively priced and only available during the festival week.

The five cocktail highlights include:

At Sexy Fish, current Bartender of the Year Sam Page has created two Signature Serves at £10 each.

One using shiso distilled rather than muddled with sansho peppercorns sous vide. While the other built around wintermelon tea, a prized ingredient in Chinese and Southeast Asian cuisine that almost never appears in Western cocktail bars. 

Opium Chinatown bring us Citrus Ritual, £15. A gin sour with yuzu and salted lemon cordial, elevated tableside with freshly grated Buddha’s Hand.

This rare Chinese citrus has no juice or pulp and is prized entirely for its fragrant oils, which are intense and floral in a way that has no real equivalent in Western cooking.

Omija Tea Collins, £12 at Lucy Wong, Fitzrovia. A gin cocktail built on a house-made honey-sweetened tea using the Omija berry, a Korean botanical with five simultaneous flavours in a single ingredient: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and spice. Paired with pork and prawn siu mai.

Meadow and Woodland flights, Kioku by Endo at The OWO. £30 per flight. Two three-drink kaiseki-inspired flights built around the Japanese principle of capturing ingredients at their seasonal peak.

The Meadow flight includes a serve with a very unusual ingredient – katsuobushi (dried fermented skipjack tuna) with white miso and jasmine, as well as a vodka cocktail with fig leaf, gorseflower and corn.

The Woodland flight moves through chanterelle, apricot, pine, Douglas fir, sloe and blackberry.

Martinez, £15, Bar Lotus, Kingsland Road. Following the TCM cocktail trend sweeping Asia.

Bar Lotus has made a house vermouth taking traditional Chinese medicinal botanicals from the apothecary to the bar and used it in a reworked Martinez. Herbal, complex and rooted in centuries of Eastern flavour tradition.

Full list of participating bars at tastetheorient.com