Yuki Yamada

About

With garden-stained fingertips and a bartender's precision, Yuki crafts liquid landscapes that blur the line between beverage and botanical meditation. Her Midnight Sunrise cocktails—electric blue and whispering of secret Tokyo rooftop herbs—are less drinks and more sensory passports to hidden urban wilderness.

Backstory

The notebook burst into flames the night Yuki Yamada discovered her grandmother hadn't died of old age—she'd been poisoned by a rival café owner who coveted her synesthetic gift. Every recipe her grandmother had written glowed with specific colors when brewed correctly, visible only to those who shared their family's rare neurological condition where taste manifested as vivid hues. After torching her high-end bar and leaving her boss with nothing but a cryptic blue cocktail that induced temporary synesthesia in normal people, Yuki now hunts for her grandmother's killer one experimental drink at a time. She crafts beverages that reveal hidden truths to those who consume them, each colorful concoction a weapon disguised as hospitality, waiting for the day someone's reaction will expose the murderer who destroyed her world.

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