I take my first sip of the lurid confection before me and my face contorts into a grimace made of equal parts pleasure and confusion. Before me is Bar Soba's Drumstick Caipriovska: a cocktail of vodka, syrup and zesty lime with a Drumstick lolly sticking out the top. It’s a pastel-coloured sugar bomb – so sweet it dries me out, leaving my tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth.

With the sour taste receptors on either side of my tongue tingling, and the sweet, syrupy goodness firing my happy childhood memory part of my brain, I'm momentarily drunk on this overwhelming sensory experience – how can a drink do this to you? – then I drain the rest of the short glass, piled high with ice, in one rapid movement and I'm visibly, properly drunk on the booze from all the cocktails we've been drinking. I have a habit of getting sleepy when I’ve consumed this much – tiny glancer, my friends call me – and this has pushed me over the edge into a blissful no man’s land between waking and sleep. It is not even midnight.

Bar Soba has a habit of doing this to me. Any establishment with a drinks menu 15 pages long is bound to. The pan-Asian bar chain now has three locations across Glasgow – Mitchell Lane being the original and best – and in December, its parent company announced plans to spread across the UK like a particularly agreeable virus, with seven new locations in the north of England planned. Its winning combination of authentic Asian street food and creative cocktails have been a winner north of the border – I’ve never seen any of its locations less than packed on a weekend night – and that success will likely translate to country-wide domination when the expansion rolls out.

What was the worst job you ever had?

1. Kenneth Robinson, 57, City Centre, “Golf tour coach driver. An American tourist told me I’d brought him the wrong type of ice.”

Margaret Shanks, 57, City Centre, “Shoe salesperson. I was undervalued and overwhelmed.”

2. Alex Mill, 21, Edinburgh, “I worked in a chippy and used to go to bed reeking of chips.”

Lucy Sharpe, 21, Edinburgh, “Working in a cattery, where I was constantly peed on”

3. Sheila Rodger, 54, Fife, “Soap factory. I hated it – too many bubbles.”

4. Mary Boyle, 48, Glasgow, “A sandwich shop – I’m vegetarian, and had to handle raw meat. I only lasted a week.”

5. Adi Childs, 22, Hyndland

Favourite Club? Buff Club

Favourite Bar? The Beer Bar, at the GUU

Favourite DJ? DJ Fono

Favourite Band? Slow Club

What You Drinking? Prosecco

First Club? Corp in Sheffield

Describe Your Dancing? Free-spirited

6. Lucy Stokes, 22, Hyndland, “In a motorway service station. 5am starts and coachloads of customers.”

7. Darragh Meehan, 21, Hillhead, “I ran the bar at a private wedding. I had to flee by the end of it.”

8. Toni Roddie, 30, St George’s Cross, “At the airport, selling competition tickets to people thinking they could win a Ferrari. I felt like I was duping them.”