THE MAKING OF THE FAMOUS SINGAPORE SLING COCKTAIL AT THE RAFFLES HOTEL IN SINGAPORE

12-02-2014 TRAVEL; THE MAKING OF THE FAMOUS SINGAPORE SLING COCKTAIL AT THE RAFFLES HOTEL IN SINGAPORE; RAFFLES HOTEL; SINGAPORE First opened in 1887, Perhaps the world’s greatest hotel, Raffles Singapore. Everyone from Charlie Chaplin, Michael Jackson to Queen Elizabeth has stayed at the historic Hotel, as well as many other famous people. The first barrier is to get passed the Sikh Doorman Sarawan. The hotel is famous for many things: One the writers bar, immortalized by writers including Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway and Alfred Hitchcock who wrote great books in this bar. Second for the famous Long Bar, home of the Singapore Sling. The Singapore Sling was created at Raffles Hotel at the turn of the century by Hainanese – Chinese Bartender, Mr. Ngiam Tong Boon. The Receipt, 30 ml Gin, 15 ml Cherry Brandy, 120 ml Pineapple Juice, 15 ml Lime Juice, 7.5 ml Cointreau, 7.5 ml DOM Benedictine, 10 ml Grenadine and a dash of Angostura Bitters, Garnish with a slice of Pineapple and Cherry. The management from the Raffles Hotel encourages patrons to drop their peanut shells on the floor, the way Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling and his contemporaries may have done in the early 20th century. If you leave it on the shells on the table, the barmen will wipe your shells from the table on to the floor. The shells make a satisfactory crunch beneath your feet. Photo Andy Smulders / Persfoto.com