Raffles Hotel is home to the Long Bar, which is where the hotel claims that Ngiam Tong Boon, a talented Hainanese bartender, created the Singapore Sling in 1915. At the time it was considered a socially acceptable ‘punch’ for ladies to drink in public. History is a bit hazy on whether these are actual facts or just a savvy marketing story.Long Bar at the iconic Raffles Hotel in Singapore is the birthplace of the Singapore Sling, a pink gin-based cocktail invented in 1915 to allow ladies of that period to disguise their alcoholic drinks as punch and drink in public. The drink has since come to represent Singapore on an international level and visiting Long Bar with its nostalgic 1920s ambience is considered a tourist must-do including upholding the tradition of having peanuts with your cocktail, and discarding the shells on the floor.
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