Tucked into the run of Bade Road just past Breeze Center, Night 'n Day reads at street level as a slim black storefront and a single spotlit doorway. The name is honest — the room runs across both halves of the clock, a bistro that turns into a bar without ever quite changing register.
A room designed to be photographed
Inside, the design is one note held with confidence: black walls, black ceiling, spotlights pulled tight on the bar and the tables. The effect is theatrical without being dim — every cocktail and plate sits inside its own pool of light, the room dropping away into shadow around it. The aesthetic isn't an accident. The drinks, when they arrive, are built to be seen first.
Drinks that announce themselves
The cocktail menu leans theatrical and tea-leaning at once. The headline arrival is 只有大海知道 — "Only the Ocean Knows", which lands in a shell-garnished glass under a low cloud of dry-ice fog, the liquid below working tomato, pineapple, and licorice-sugar into something briny and improbable. Photogenic, yes — but the drink survives the staging once the fog clears.
落日時種 ("Sunset Seeds") runs in the same theatrical register — dill, Japanese yuzu, shiso, cucumber, and green apple lifted with sparkling, served inside another wall of dry-ice fog that breaks slowly across the table. Where Ocean is salt, Sunset is garden — sharp, herbal, almost cooling.
The tea section is the quieter, more disciplined half of the menu. 香片 is built on a wood-scented rim that perfumes the first sip; 金萱 carries floral and stone-fruit notes over a soft base. 皮皮島的遺跡 ("Phi Phi Island's Remains") is the wildcard — a Thai-milk-tea-inspired drink threaded with black sesame and vanilla, served in a nest-shaped glass that reads like a souvenir from somewhere else entirely.
The kitchen
The food has more weight than the late-night hours suggest. A crispy shrimp ball under dill yogurt to open; fresh Miyazaki oysters on ice when you want the bar to slow down for a minute; truffle fries when you don't; Thai-style chili chicken thigh when the second drink needs an anchor. None of it is straining to be the headline — but none of it is filler either.
Why people come
Fish Yu, writing on 巴哈姆特, called it a 微醺憂鬱終結者 — a "melancholy-ending microbuzz spot" for the night after a rainy day. That framing fits the room better than "cocktail bar" does. Night 'n Day isn't competing on cocktail-program seriousness with the Asia-50-Best circuit; it's competing on mood. The drinks are showy on purpose, the kitchen is steady, and the room — black, spotlit, hushed without being precious — is built for the kind of evening where you actually want to be seen with the glass in your hand.
A useful stop when the smaller, classical rooms haven't opened yet, or when the night needs a register-shift from disciplined tasting to something a little more performed.
Editorial photography by Fish Yu (魚魚 / realnofish), originally published on 巴哈姆特 and the author's own blog at fish-web.toyspa.net. Reproduced with credit.
Night 'n Day Bar & Bistro
Tucked into the run of Bade Road just past Breeze Center, Night 'n Day reads at street level as a slim black storefront and a single spotlit doorway. The name is honest — the room runs across both halves of the clock, a bistro that turns into a bar without ever quite changing register.
A room designed to be photographed
Inside, the design is one note held with confidence: black walls, black ceiling, spotlights pulled tight on the bar and the tables. The effect is theatrical without being dim — every cocktail and plate sits inside its own pool of light, the room dropping away into shadow around it. The aesthetic isn't an accident. The drinks, when they arrive, are built to be seen first.
Drinks that announce themselves
The cocktail menu leans theatrical and tea-leaning at once. The headline arrival is 只有大海知道 — "Only the Ocean Knows", which lands in a shell-garnished glass under a low cloud of dry-ice fog, the liquid below working tomato, pineapple, and licorice-sugar into something briny and improbable. Photogenic, yes — but the drink survives the staging once the fog clears.
落日時種 ("Sunset Seeds") runs in the same theatrical register — dill, Japanese yuzu, shiso, cucumber, and green apple lifted with sparkling, served inside another wall of dry-ice fog that breaks slowly across the table. Where Ocean is salt, Sunset is garden — sharp, herbal, almost cooling.
The tea section is the quieter, more disciplined half of the menu. 香片 is built on a wood-scented rim that perfumes the first sip; 金萱 carries floral and stone-fruit notes over a soft base. 皮皮島的遺跡 ("Phi Phi Island's Remains") is the wildcard — a Thai-milk-tea-inspired drink threaded with black sesame and vanilla, served in a nest-shaped glass that reads like a souvenir from somewhere else entirely.
The kitchen
The food has more weight than the late-night hours suggest. A crispy shrimp ball under dill yogurt to open; fresh Miyazaki oysters on ice when you want the bar to slow down for a minute; truffle fries when you don't; Thai-style chili chicken thigh when the second drink needs an anchor. None of it is straining to be the headline — but none of it is filler either.
Why people come
Fish Yu, writing on 巴哈姆特, called it a 微醺憂鬱終結者 — a "melancholy-ending microbuzz spot" for the night after a rainy day. That framing fits the room better than "cocktail bar" does. Night 'n Day isn't competing on cocktail-program seriousness with the Asia-50-Best circuit; it's competing on mood. The drinks are showy on purpose, the kitchen is steady, and the room — black, spotlit, hushed without being precious — is built for the kind of evening where you actually want to be seen with the glass in your hand.
A useful stop when the smaller, classical rooms haven't opened yet, or when the night needs a register-shift from disciplined tasting to something a little more performed.
Editorial photography by Fish Yu (魚魚 / realnofish), originally published on 巴哈姆特 and the author's own blog at fish-web.toyspa.net. Reproduced with credit.
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