The West has been supping its medicinal liqueurs for fun for centuries: now, Dennis Mak has teamed up with a Chinese medicine doctor to turn Hong Kong on to the delights of TCM tipples.

At the quirky little Tanah dan Air Tea Bar in Petaling Jaya, tea artist Law Siow Fei is hard at work. Hunched over a long table, she gently pours tea out of a tiny little tea pot into three ...