Beijing Boyce XVIII: Mailbag!
Here is yet another reader story submitted in response to my tale of almost being lit on fire while “enjoying” a Flaming Lamborghini.
“A friend of mine was celebrating her birthday last year at [X bar in Beijing], upstairs on the deck. I ordered her a Flaming Lamborghini, which I’ve enjoyed in the past in a single glass. This version was like yours, a three-level pyramid of glasses on a steel board, where flaming alcohol is supposed to trickle down from the top glass to the lower ones, like a waterfall.
“The pyramid was lit, and alcohol started flowing. I thought this was very cool until some glasses exploded from the heat, and the table caught fire. Although we did manage to put the fire out relatively quickly, the birthday girl wasn’t very amused. Just proves the old saying: don’t play with fire… especially not liquid on fire.
(From Beijing Boyce XVIII, first emailed on June 8, 2006)
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