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The Pegu Club is a colonial-era classic born at the Pegu Club in 1920s Rangoon (now Yangon), Myanmar — the gathering spot for British officers and expatriates who spent their evenings on the veranda mixing gin with local ingredients. A sophisticated blend of gin, orange curaçao, fresh lime juice, and both Angostura and orange bitters, it's a complex, aromatic, and bracingly dry cocktail that showcases exactly what gin cocktail design looked like at its peak. Published in Harry Craddock's legendary 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book with the note that it "has traveled, and is asked for, around the world," the Pegu Club is one of those drinks that deserves to be far more famous than it is — endlessly interesting and impeccably constructed.