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Singapore sling3/17/2023 ![]() Your correspondent took the photo accompanying this article there in 2008, but we are unsure if they still use the abominable fluorescent red cherries as garnish. Sadly, it’s now a shell of what it was after being downsized and moved in a 1991 renovation. The name was appropriate, as it consumed an entire side of a large room filled with tables. The hotel built its bar, known as the Long Bar, as part of this expansion. It was a ten-room hotel when it opened in 1887 and expanded by adding new wings and rebuilding old structures. Armenian hoteliers, the Sarkies Brothers, established the hotel nearly 50 years after Raffles’ death. While Singapore’s most most famous hotel bears his name Stamford Raffles had nothing to do with it. He also ordered that the trading post was owned by the British alone but free passage was allowed for all ships through the Strait of Singapore. On February 6 he declared the foundation what was to become modern Singapore, and through a treaty with the local leader transferred ownership of the island to the East India Company. To cut to the chase, in January 1819 he established a post at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and determined there was no Dutch presence on the island of Singapore. Raffles felt it was necessary to establish a British presence to challenge the Dutch hegemony in the area. ![]() He was soon back in Bencoolen (part of Malaysia). He acted as an ambassador negotiating certain peace treaties as well as a commander of military operations against other European nations vying for territory and against local tribes to establish British rule.Īfter the Napoleonic Wars left Java in the hands of the Netherlands he returned to England. Raffles held a variety of posts in Malacca and Java. He was sent to Malaysia when he was about 24 years old, and this started his long association with Southeast Asia. He started his career as a clerk for the East India Company (see East India Cocktail) while a teenager. Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles was born in 1781 aboard a ship off the coast of Jamaica. So today we’re paying tribute to the man Raffles with the Singapore Sling recipe served at the Raffles Hotel. But sometimes when the legend becomes fact, print the legend. Raffles claims the Singapore Sling was born in its bar, but this assertion and the ingredient list are contested. It was only a matter of time before the inevitable: the Raffles Hotel. That’s because on FebruSir Stamford Bingley Raffles declared the foundation of what would become modern Singapore. Today at The Drunkard’s Almanac we’re mixing up the Singapore Sling as Drink of the Day.
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