Singapore Sling!

What: Singapore Sling (Review and Recipe!)

Where: Raffles Hotel, Singapore

Price: 27 Sing Dollars (!)

Rating: 5

Non-Quantifiable Rating: British Colonists must have had a lot of cavities

Apparently, no trip to Singapore is complete without a stop by the famous famous Raffles Hotel.  And apparently, no trip to the Raffles Hotel is complete without the famous Singapore Sling, a drink that was invented at this swanky British Colonialist establishment.

Despite the rather appalling price tag, I succumbed to tradition and settled in for a drink.  The Long Bar is open to the elements, and palm fronds wave from the ceiling in a quasi-feeble attempt to combat the tropical temperatures.  Each table has a dish of peanuts on it, so the floor is carpeted in peanut shells (Williams Bar, anyone?).

As for the drink: ummm, well, it's like sucking down a melted jolly rancher.  Seriously...it's almost unbearably sweet.  I think this is what British Colonialists must have fed underage girls to get them to agree to a date (ew).  I am more of a beer-or-full-bodied-wine girl myself, but I know that some people do enjoy drinkign liquified sugar, so I got them to give me the recipe:

SINGAPORE SLING RECIPE:

- 30 ml Gin

- 15 ml Heering Cherry Liquor

- 120 ml Pineapple Juice

- 7.5 ml Cointreau

- 7.5 ml Dom Benedictine

- 10 ml Grenadine

- Dash of Angostrua Bitters

- Garnish with Cherry and a slice of Pineapple