{"id":12911,"date":"2018-10-01T14:43:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flash.hr\/?p=12911\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T20:39:48","slug":"chanel-adams-hong-kong-presents-new-cocktail-list-50-burger-champagne-bar-zagreb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flash.hr\/en\/2018\/10\/chanel-adams-hong-kong-presents-new-cocktail-list-50-burger-champagne-bar-zagreb\/","title":{"rendered":"CHANEL ADAMS FROM HONG KONG PRESENTS THE NEW COCKTAIL LIST AT 50 A BURGER AND CHAMPAGNE BAR IN ZAGREB"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a part of her guest shift in Zagreb, Chanel Adams from the legendary Albanian bar ”A Zimi, a Ljeti”\u2026 I\u2019m just messing with you. She arrived from a renown cocktail bar PDT (Please don\u2019t tell)<\/strong><\/a> in Hong Kong and presented a few cocktails to our media which you will be able to find on the new 50 Burger and Champagne bar\u2019s cocktail list. The new list consists of app.15 cocktails and some of them are dedicated to Zagreb, for instance Zagreb Sour. This information would have been completely irrelevant if I hadn\u2019t found myself at 50 bar that day. I\u2019m good friends with the owner, Adena and I asked her to introduce me to the ravishing Asian straight away. Adena said to me: \u201cYou idiot! Just because she works in Hong Kong doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019s Asian!\u201d Me: \u201cCan she at least pretend she is?\u201d Adena gave me half a Twix.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Adena Lavin<\/span>
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In that moment, Chanel noticed me with her almost – slanty eyes and you can read the transcript of our conversation below.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Chanel Adams<\/span>
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You were born in the USA, half Bolivian but I dont judge you, even I know you went to a private school. Your parents probably expected you to be a doctor or a lawyer. Were they mad at you when you told them that you would like to work in a bar? Did they remove you from their last will?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My parents were more worried than angry. I told them I wanted to go into hospitality, specifically bartending, and my mother swore I was going to be a drunk bartender at a night club. My stepfather tried to be as supportive as possible and calm my mom down.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Chanel Adams<\/span>
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How did you end up in Hong Kong and got a job in such an exclusive cocktail bar as PDT? Do you know Jackie Chan? Are you a member of the communist party?<\/strong><\/div>\n
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When I heard that PDT was opening in Hong Kong , I called every connection I knew and asked them to bother Adam Schmidt and Jeff Bell until they finally hired me. I was boring like Jehovah’s Witnesses. <\/em>They had to hire me:)\u00a0I do not know Jackie Chan. I\u2019m not a communist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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PDT<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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How did you meet Adena from 50 and came to Zagreb? Is it true that you came to 50 burger and champagne bar in Zagreb to learn how to make proper cocktails from me? Who is financing all of this (travelings, promotions)? CIA? Are you a Bolivian spy and cocktails are just your paravan?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I met Adena when I was at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans this past July. She was hanging out with the Gin Mare boys and I was with my mentor who used to work for Gin Mare. We were both bored and excited to see another girl, so we became friends. I did not come here to meet you. I have never heard of you. Adena from 50′ sponsored my guest shifts in Zagreb. I am not a Bolivian spy, you are seriously deranged!<\/span><\/div>\n
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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Chanel Adams i Adena Lavin<\/span>
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This is your first visit to Zagreb\/Croatia. What do you think about Zagreb (food, drinks, people…)? Can you compare it with Hong Kong?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Zagreb is a very nice break from reality. The people are super kind and attractive. I pretty much only ate at 50, so I have no idea what the local food is like.\u00a0I cannot compare Zagreb to Hong Kong. They are completely different. Hong Kong is much more expensive. I appreciate a more peaceful setting like Zagreb every so often, but I love the insanity of Hong Kong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gastro interview without food would be like a hipster without gluten allergy. Chanel has ordered Bibim Memil salad – chicken katsu, cucumber, carrot, daikon, sweet apple, soba noodles, pepper, egg marinated in soy, spring onions, sesame and chili sauce.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Chanel Adams \u2013 Bibim Memil<\/span>
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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Bibim Memil<\/span>
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I\u2019ve decided to go with North Korean flavors – Korean chicken – chicken katsu, sesame mayo, homemade kimchi, various young greens and a toasted bun.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Korean Chicken<\/span>
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She told me it takes her an hour to get to work and back home and she pays her suburbian rent 2700 Euro per month. I have explained to her that our unions at the shipyards would never tolerate such exploitation. 20 minutes to work is the max distance a worker should go in a day to earn for their daily bread.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2700 Euro per month to live in suburb of Hong Kong<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Every once in a while, Chanel would show some skin in order to draw my attention to her awesome tattoos.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Chanel Adams<\/span>
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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Chanel Adams<\/span>
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I heard lots of men asking – are you married, are you single, are you rich… What can you tell them?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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I’m married. My husband is amazing.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I lost my appetite when I heard that she was married. I needed liquid courage to tell her: \u201cJust give me a sign and I\u2019ll make you mine\u201d so I asked her to whip me up a \u201cDEAR LEADER\u201d cocktail – dcl of wormwood, one supermarket brand egg, two drops of sulfur, a five point star\u2026the rest is a secret.:)<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Chanel Adams priprema koktel Dragi Vo\u0111a<\/span>
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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 K-plus jaje za vrhunski okus<\/span>
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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Chanel Adams priprema koktel Dragi Vo\u0111a<\/span>
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What is your favorite cocktail except DEAR LEADER that you have prepared just for me?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mezcal Negroni.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Cocktail Dear Leader Joe by Chanel Adams<\/span>
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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Dear Leader Joe ft. Chanel Adams<\/span>
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Is it hard not to be an alcoholic when you’re preparing all those fancy drinks all night and day? Do you have any adiction or maybe some special skills like moving your ears… Tell me something about yourself that no one else knows.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t like to drink. My body doesn’t react well to it. I’ve always been a foodie and if anything, I drink natural wine and sherry.\u00a0I don’t have any cool skills, but I can always read the future out of your palm and lie that I\u2019m psychic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Chanel Adams- \u017eena bez posebnih vje\u0161tina<\/span>
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She said to me in fluent Gypsy: \u201cSao Roma BAbo, Babo\u2026 A great evil is upon you. I will protect you from this trouble; for a price. You are to live very, very long; if you pay extra. This line say you go to Hong Kong and I see love ahead. I see some singer Rihanna, drools a lot over you\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Chanel Adams \u2013 \u010citanje sudbine iz dlana<\/span>
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What kind of music do you listen to and do you know of a famous Croatian singer, Milo Hrni\u0107?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I listen to hip-hop\/rap music mostly. Some metal, house and punk\/ska as well.\u00a0Never heard of him \ud83d\ude41<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Is this interview for\u00a0Flash.hr<\/a>\u00a0the highlight of your career and if it’s not, you can lie that it is:)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Of couse it is. I have been looking forward to this moment my entire life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Where have you been in 1991.?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1991? I was 1 year old. Probably trying to figure out how to walk somewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

If I didn’t ask you something and you would like to say it, say now, or shut up forever:)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I LOVE YOU:)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Unato\u010d braku, Chanel Adams me stoka na Instagramu<\/span>
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50 Burger and Champagne bar \u2013 Chanel Adams<\/span>
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We hung out with Chanel and her cocktails the entire night and according to 50 Burger and Champagne bar\u2019s announcements, this young lady, who obviously got her name after a perfume, will be back with her PDT colleagues in spring to create a cocktail and gastro menu with chef Nikola Markovi\u0107.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n