Cocktail: The Jale Porton at Hotel Shangri-la

Sip in the spirit of South America with the Jale Porton, a unique cocktail that is part of the Hotel Shangri-la's new summer drink menu and served at its Dining Room, Suite 700 and pool bar. Or shake it up yourself, assuming you can locate its niftiest ingredient, a wacky flower appropriately known as the "buzz button." Indigenous to South America and parts of Africa, the flower contains a natural analgesic that, when chewed, both numbs your mouth and makes it tingle — kind of like if Pop Rocks were made from green peppercorns. But when consumed with delicate pisco (a colorless grape brandy native to Peru) mixed with tart lemon-and-lime juice and dulcet cucumber, the buzz button has a lovely way of enhancing both sweet and sour flavors.