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Last month, we shared a little teaser about Wing Lei Bar & Friends, a series of fun and exciting collaborations where Macau’s Wing Lei Bar invites bars from around the world to shake things up behind the stick. Wing Lei Bar & Friends launched to considerable buzz, drawing more than 100 attendees from local cocktail enthusiasts to visiting bartenders from across Asia. Over the weekend of January 23 – 25, nine distinct bars, including Wing Lei Bar, each showcased their craft in uniquely individual ways. The series debuted alongside a distinctive, year-long collectible sticker campaign inspired by the worldwide ritual of football sticker albums, an homage to bartenders’ shared love of the game as excitement builds toward the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Each quarterly edition of Wing Lei Bar & Friends introduces limited-edition, Panini-style stickers featuring guest bartenders and their signature cocktails. Produced in matte editions with select rare glossy variants, the stickers are available exclusively during the weekend guest shifts and are designed to be collected, traded, and assembled into an official album.

Volume 1 of Wing Lei Bar & Friends featured guest shifts and a discussion panel exploring the shared philosophies that connect these bars, alongside a curated local tour that immersed guests in Wing Lei Bar captain Mark Lloyd’s vision for the space. The bar came alive with healthy discussion on the future of cocktails in Asia, straight from the mouths of those shaping that future. 

It must be said though, that Wing Lei Bar & Friends goes well beyond the perceived notions of a standard guest shift. It is an immersive experience that seeks to create a further curiosity about Macau, its history, and its place in Asia’s evolving tourism landscape. Guest bartenders are invited to deep dive into the city’s food and architecture whilst engaging in meaningful interaction with colleagues from around the world and discovering what hospitality means to different people. Suspended above the performance lake at Wynn Palace, SkyCab, the hotel’s observation cable car, sets the stage for candid conversations. Never one to avoid a bold opinion, Mark invites guest bartenders aboard, puts them on camera, and presses them for their hottest takes on the bar scene. In Volume 1, he quizzed the teams from Good Friends Club, Chimney, and Sugar Ray about their pre-shift rituals, go-to service soundtracks, and the aspects of bar culture they’d most like to change.

From March 13 – 15, Macau welcomes the second edition of Wing Lei Bar & Friends. Building on the momentum of the first instalment, Mark Lloyd, Director of Bars at Wynn Resorts Macau and Head Mixologist of Wing Lei Bar, returns as host, this time bringing together seven new bars. The line-up stretches well beyond Asia, featuring global favourites like New York’s Sip & Guzzle and London’s Archive & Myth, alongside regional standouts such as Jakarta’s Modernhaus, Bangkok’s Opium, and rising names including New Delhi’s No Vacancy.

Lloyd’s goal is to broaden the spectrum geographically, stylistically, and experientially, creating a platform where fresh perspectives meet seasoned expertise, and where the traditional seamlessly fuses with the experimental.

As the bar gears up to host volume 2 this March, we are here to whet your appetite with two exciting sneak peeks of drinks you can expect from Archive & Myth (London) and Opium (Bangkok).

Sazerac de Nata by Jack Sotti (Archive & Myth) 

Butter Washed Brandy, Rittenhouse Rye, Peychaud’s Float, Puff Pastry

The Sazerac de Nata, a textural play on the classic with layers of filo pastry and butter washed into brandy and rye and finished with an absinthe and cacao cured quails egg yolk finishing the cocktail with a custrardy textural explosion.

Pleasure Spiked With Pain by Matteo Cadeddu (Opium)

Tequila Reposado, Tomato Campari, Pineapple Cocchi Americano, Basil Distillate, garnish with Parmesan Tuile and Tomato Gel

Inspired by Italian pizza and the line we dared to cross. A forbidden affair of pineapple, tomato, and basil, where desire lingers long after the first touch. Forgive us, Italia. The world has already fallen in love.

Wing Lei Bar is actively shaping the conversation around bar culture in Macau and doing some heavy lifting when it comes to changing perceptions of the city being nothing beyond a casino destination. Through sustained and meaningful programming, Mark and the team have been able to carve a niche for themselves as well as several local bars, proving to the region that Macau is serious about its food and drink culture, its history, and above all, its impact on global hospitality. 

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