19 November 2015
Is the Bond martini (shaken vodka martini) delicious for drinkers?
Bar
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essay
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Far East
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James Bond
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Japan
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Tokyo
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Spector is released on 4th December in Japanese market. The new 007 film Spector has already released in UK.
“James is not a real drinker, I think. The Bond martini is
small amount of alcohol because the shaking sound is very dull with clashing
ice sound, thus the martini glasses are very large.” The lady who love to taste
the cocktails in the famous bar said and I said “The Martini which Japanese skilful
bartender had shaken will throw him down, with the strong alcohol contains in
the Shaken vodka martini.” We told about the weak martini in the 007 movies over
a glass of sherry and a glass of thick White lady at the early evening.
The shaken vodka martini must have been very thin and tasteless
in the Bond movies as Sky fall (the bartender in Macao was at least better than
other ones.), Casino Royal or Living Daylight (we may know the taste of the poison
in such as thin martini). When I visited to the bars in these Anglo-Saxon countries,
I had been very disappointed the quality of the cocktails. The bar man in these
countries used very loose ices containing a lot of airs bubble and almost
melting for their cocktails. They also were not able to measure the amount of liquors
for the cocktails. The shaken vodka martini made with loose ices were nicely
weak cocktail before going out on missions. In the United States or England,
the ice for the cocktails is really low quality.
From the economist web site
Ian Fleming may have known and anticipated the worrying future
of cocktail in UK. He had Mr Bond drunk 92 units per week in his novels. In this
“scientific” article, the author had described that he counted the vodka
martini as 3 units alcohol (1unit is 8 g of ethanol.) same amount as the glass (150mL)
of the wine or Japanese sake. The Dukes bar in Dukes hotel, London where Sir
Fleming loved to drink and was inspired the Vesper martini is serving 8 units alcohol
martini with 150mL Martini glass. He had written Mr Bond as the strong role
model but the movie producers had drawn his as the “not-real drinker.” The
amount of alcohol unit must flexed depends on the recipes of the cocktail.
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7255.full.pdf+html
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