Singapore Sling – it must be Raffles!
Predictable it might be – but after you’ve toured the bustling, spotless streets and sights of Singapore, ridden the cable car to Sentosa, the MRT train to a highly emasculated Bugis Street (which now only sports open air shopping of a merchandising kind without all the previous risqué razzmatazz of the transgender beauties of the seventies) and taken in the endless Malls of glittering consumerism then it’s good to step away from...
The ‘Harbour Cocktail’ from the Taj Mumbai
Our barman at the Taj enticed us with his 1933 Harbour Cocktail (famous at the Taj since it was devised for some American visitors to celebrate the end of Prohibition) and as a result he saw more of us than anyone else in the hotel over the three days we spent there! Not that our life necessarily revolves around alcohol, or that we’re particularly partial to cocktails – finding them too sweet for the most part – but this one is...