In-Flight Cocktail of the Month: The 'Cathay Delight'
As many already know, we have a serious obsession with airline cocktails, and so much is our passion that we've created a whole first-Friday-of-the-month feature called In-Flight Cocktail of the Month, which highlights the special concoctions that flight attendants whip up with only a cocktail shaker, some tiny liquor bottles and a whole lot of hope that it won't make you drunk and unruly.
It's been a long winter already, and we're already drunk more hot toddies and ciders than we'd care to share. Thus, it's time to switch gears and daydream about more tropical libations, say...from places where the temperature is 70 degrees today instead of 7; a place like Hong Kong! And after drinking through Chinese New Year, we're more than ready for a glass of Cathay Delight, a non-alcoholic cocktail offered up on many Cathay Pacific flights from HK.
The ingredients are pretty simple; you could whip one up yourself this evening if you're feeling fancy. It's just coconut milk, kiwi juice, and a little regular milk to froth it up a bit. Garnish with a mint leaf (and maybe a quick bit of coconut rum to try spiking it).
The drink has been flying the skies since 2002-ish, after being created by the Assistant Manager at Hong Kong's Park Lane Hotel. To experience it for free, you've got to be flying in Business or First Class, and either order it up at one of Cathay's airport lounge bars or just wait until a tray of them comes around the cabin as a "welcome onboard" drink. Don't look at it weird because it's green—this thing is taaasssty.
[Photos: Jaunted]
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