This is one of my favourite cocktails as I love midori, and I love the sharp lemon in this. My guests described it as a lemon sherbet sweet in cocktail form.
Due to me being unable to find melon liqueur anywhere in my country I went ahead and made my own (on a base of white rum). Perhaps my version ended up way different from a bottle of Midori, but this cocktail quickly became one of my favorites. Delightfully sweet and sour, reminded me of sour fruit candy.
I was just checking the recipe as have acquired a wonderful lurid bottle of Midori. Lo and behold I was making a Melon Margarita all these years, thinking it was a Japanese Slipper. Not sure I like the look of the original - too sweet.
Anonymous
18th June 2020 at 15:45
Shouldn't a Japanese Slipper have Cointreau not Tequila? This looks like a variation
Thanks for bringing to my attention. I also note that we need to replace photo which has a salt rim. Our previous version was indeed a Margarita-like variation.