Cast your memory back to school: Chances are in between learning about Francis Light and the British East India Company, you didn’t read anything about the colonials having a drink in the verandas and clubs. Thanks to bartender Johnnie, some of the colonial cocktails are again on the rise at the bar in The Majestic Hotel. Quite fittingly, the original Hotel Majestic, built in 1932, was favoured by many colonial elites and prominent visitors. It was also the largest and grandest hotel in Kuala Lumpur back in its heyday.
Johnnie, who has spent more than 16 years behind the bar, has also created new cocktails inspired by the hotel’s history – all to offer a sensory connection to the hardscrabble days and rebellious nights before our country was formed.
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