The Singapore Sling is a well-known, delectable beverage made in Singapore. This drink has solidified its status as a Singapore tradition, garnering admirers like Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. But its precise beginnings were more mixed and churned than straight up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many people consider Singapore’s national drink to be the cocktail known as the Singapore Sling. However, how did thirsty ladies, colonisation, and word of mouth play a part in the invention of this delectable cocktail more than a century ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imagine being the unhappy wife of a British plantation owner who owned multiple properties in Singapore in the 1920s and is typically too busy to care for you. You could use a lovely cocktail to chill down and relax with your pals because the tropical climate is oppressively humid. If you don’t mind all the judgmental looks you’ll get for drinking anything besides tea in public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But upper-class women in Singapore had a secret: they were aware of the location of the best places to get their essential beverages (or two, or three). The Raffles Hotel was a posh setting where they could indulge without anybody noticing: a place where they could drink all day without being seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ngiam Tong Boon, a bartender at the famous Raffles Hotel<\/a>, invented the Singapore Sling, widely recognised as the country’s signature beverage, in 1915. The Singapore Sling, which primarily comprises gin, also includes pineapple, lime, cura\u00e7ao, and Benedictine. Cherry liqueur and grenadine give it a lovely pink colour. The rose colour of the beverage was purposefully chosen by bartender Ngiam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Raffles was the neighbourhood meeting place after the turn of the century in colonial Singapore, while Long Bar served as the neighbourhood bar. Men nursing gin or whiskey cups were frequently sighted. The ladies were unfortunate since social conventions prohibited them from drinking in public. Since they wanted to be modest, tea and fruit juices were their drinks of choice for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ever perceptive, Ngiam saw a market need and decided to develop a drink that seems to be simple fruit juice but is infused with gin and liqueurs. Because the drink was coloured pink to give it a feminine flare and because the alcohol was clear, people were led to believe that it was a drink that was appropriate for ladies in society. The Singapore Sling was created as a result. Needless to say, it quickly became popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cocktail’s fabled fame is what is more obvious about it. It was featured as the drink of desire in American writer Hunter S. Thomson’s famous 1971 novel, fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas, where the characters spent a drunken afternoon waiting for a call: “sitting there within the Polo front room \u2014 for plenty hours.” Charles Baker, the author of the 1939 drinking manual and the memoir The Gentleman’s Companion, called the Singapore Sling “a delicious, gradual-acting, insidious element.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Atlantis’s lost metropolis is a subject everyone is familiar with. The list of lost things includes virginity, causes, Rembrandts, and more. But what about lost cocktails?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, the Singapore Sling fits the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With its complicated components and shady past, the Singapore Sling radiates mystery and confusion, which is only intensified by the lingering, confusing questions that come after a night of exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Singapore Sling, formerly known as Gin Sling, is a gin-based drink that was created in Singapore in or around 1915 by a bartender by the name of Ngiam Tong Boon. Gin is shaken with cherry liqueur, Cointreau, grenadine, B\u00e9n\u00e9dictine herbal liqueur, pineapple juice, freshly squeezed lime juice, and Angostura bitters to create the drink, which was originally made with gin, cherry brandy, orange, pineapple, and lime juice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A pineapple wedge and a Maraschino cherry garnish the straight-up Singapore Sling that is traditionally served in a hurricane glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a more low-key finish, use a cocktail umbrella and a glittering straw. Alternatively, garnish with only a cherry for a high-society feel. You make the call, and you drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Singapore Sling appears to be wrapped in a sense of mystery, whether it is genuine or imagined. Even the name has a little illegal ring to it. The Singapore Sling has an exotic reputation and may be the subject of whispers in hidden places or the name of a scandalous dance that scandalized affluent suburban communities in the 1920s.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat is a Singapore Sling?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Singapore Sling Myth<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Raffles Hotel in Singapore, The Epicenter<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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