Mah-jong

MAH-JONG

Greetings again! Tonight's cocktail has absolutely nothing to do with the Chinese game, but having one of these sure is (at least as much) fun!

Simple ingredients, only the decoration might take a little while to make:

• 4 cl gin
• 1 cl Cointreau
• 1 cl white rum
• a long orange peel

Combine the alcohols in a glass with plenty of ice and stir for about 20-30 seconds. Strain into a cocktail glass and here's the tricky part; the decoration.

Use a channel knife to cut a long strip of orange peel and swirl it into a spiral. Don't use a straw to twist the peel around it, it makes the peel look like a spring. Twisting it around itself e.g. on a cutting board gives better results; better looking.

But how did this taste? I'm not a huge fan of gin, but the cointreau gave just enough sweetness to it for me to enjoy it. The rum on the other hand, I couldn't really taste it at all.

Visually this is a very nice cocktail though! One of the most aesthetic cocktails I've made so far, no doubt about that!