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The Singapore Sling is indubitably the cocktail that is most synonymous with the city-state.
PHOTOS: LONG BAR, DA PAOLO DEMPSEY RESTAURANT & BAR, NUTMEG & CLOVE, INTERCONTINENTAL SINGAPORE.
SINGAPORE – Earlier this year, I met friends visiting Singapore from Australia and they insisted that we partake in one of the non-negotiable items on their travel bucket list: sip a Singapore Sling cocktail at Raffles Hotel’s Long Bar.
They were not the only tourists who had this idea. While we sipped on our peach-hued drinks in between snacking on peanuts out of gunny sacks, a line of people stretched out the door waiting to enter the hallowed walls of the colonial-era building.
