Since moving into my flat in September last year, I’ve been really enjoying hosting friends, and part of my hosting duties include mixing fun cocktails for my guests. I was kindly sent a bottle of the Kwai Feh lychee liqueur to review, and had lots of fun using it to jazz up some well-known drinks recipes.
I love lychees as a fruit, and this liqueur both had a strong lychee taste and smell. This lychee essence goes with a lot of alcoholic spirits, making it a very versatile ingredient for drinks. In the photo below, I made lychee mojitos:
The ingredients for this drink were: a handful of mint (I have a mint plant which I use for this, very helpful!), 25ml of Kwai Feh, 25ml of rum, 25ml of freshly squeezed lime juice, 15ml of sugar syrup, topped up with lychee juice.
Whilst I enjoy rum cocktails, I don’t actually love the flavour of rum on its own, so it was pleasing to my taste buds that the lychee liqueur overpowered the rum in this drink! The lychee mojito was very fruity and fresh, with the mint leaves and lime really bringing out the tastiness of the lychee in the drink.
The next drink I made was the pink señorita cocktail, partially inspired by the pink aesthetic of the Barbie film!
The ingredients here were: 25ml Kwai Feh, 25ml tequila, 25ml Cointreau, 10ml lemon juice, topped up with pink lemonade.
The taste of the lychee doesn’t come across as strongly in this drink as it does in the lychee mojito, which is unsurprising, given it’s mixed with two other spirits here, not one. The inclusion of both lemon juice and pink lemonade make this a more bitter-tasting drink than the mojito. The fizzy lemonade is a great mixer for the three alcoholic spirits of the drink, because the bubbles give the cocktail a lightness, and prevent it from tasting too boozy (although it has ample alcoholic content!)
Plus, given that pink is my favourite colour, I thought this drink was extremely pretty to look at!
The third drink I made using the liqueur was the lychee fling:
The ingredients here were 20ml of Kwah Fei, 40ml vodka, 25ml of freshly squeezed lime juice, and 5ml sugar syrup. Because I had some lemon and lime-flavoured syrup, I added this too, which gives the drink its vibrant green colour.
Due to all the syrup content, this ended up being a very sweet drink, so I’d recommend this for an after-dinner treat. I find that vodka can taste too harsh sometimes, depending on how it’s mixed. But the inclusion of the sugar syrup and the Kwah Fei, significantly makes this a more palatable drink.
Finally, I made the Kill Bill:
The ingredients for this were: 20ml of Kwah Fei, 20ml of vodka, ginger ale, and I added some Irn Bru syrup.
This drink has the same core spirits as the lychee fling, and also ended up being very sweet, mainly due to the Irn Bru flavouring. I wouldn’t have thought lychees and Irn Bru would have gone together, but they complement each other extremely well, making this another yummy after-dinner dessert contender!
All in all, I had a lot of fun experimenting with the Kwai Feh liqueur, and it has proved a wonderful tool to add to my arsenal of spirits for drinks-mixing! At £21, it’s very reasonably priced, for adding an exotic element to your alcoholic beverages, especially as lychee itself is such a delicious fruit.
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