Wow. Fifty-five (sorry, forty-five...still haven't gotten my roman numerals down) bottles of rum. Even without counting all the repeats that's not a bad attempt over the last 20 months. I really didn't expect to be adding any more to this rather impressive list until we hit a duty free shop somewhere on our flight back to Australia...but then we found Sang Som!
Who knew the Thai's made rum?? Not us, that's for sure. We were skeptical about the use of the word 'rum' (having tried Lao 'whiskey') so we did a bit of googling and found out that it is in fact made from sugarcane and has even won a couple of awards.
Maybe it had something to do with the fact that the last spirits we drank were lao-lao and Mongolian vodka, but Sang Som tasted pretty damn fine. I don't think the Cubans are looking over their shoulders just yet, but I can see many Sang Som coco-locos in our South-East Asian future.
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