What’s the longest flight you’ve ever taken? Six hours? Nine hours? Our correspondent recently braved an 18-hour jaunt — the longest flight in the world — to bring us a complete play-by-play. Here’s what else we’ve got on deck today:

• Curry gin and kokum fernet: Indian flavors are finding their way into cocktails.
• A legendary dive watch, reborn: Hands-on with a new Ollech & Wajs.

What It’s Like to Take the World’s Longest Flight

Of all the places you could be trapped for 18 hours, a plane has got to be up there with the worst.

But what if you’re sitting up front, and what if that plane is managed by Singapore Airlines, whose many 2024 laurels from Skytrax, the organization that tracks passenger flying preferences, include best Asian business class, best cabin crew in the world and second-best overall airline in the world?

Could you do it? How does nearly a full day in the sky unfold? InsideHook correspondent Adam Erace recently flew SQ21 from Newark to the Southeast Asian metropolis, currently the longest flight in the world, to find out.

Yesterday, we asked which of our open-jaw road trips you'd like to drive first. It was close! Here's what you said:

• The New England itinerary came in last with 31.3% of the vote.
• Tennessee eked out second with 32.8%.
• The Pacific Northwest took the win with 35.9%.

Indian Flavors Are Finally Making Their Way Into Cocktails

At Bungalow, the new Manhattan hotspot from celebrity chef Vikas Khanna, you can sip a Paan Sour with paan chutney, a Gin and Tonic with amchur (an Indian spice made from dried green mangos) and the Lucky Cheng, made with green curry-infused gin, kewar and crispy green curry leaf. Without leaving Bungalow’s East Village neighborhood, you can pop into Jazba, where you’ll find a cocktail featuring Fernet-Branca infused with the Indian fruit kokum.

In the last decade, Indian dining has evolved in the United States as Americans develop a better understanding of the cuisine’s vast and varied flavors. But until very recently, the same expansive range of flavors and ingredients that brought food menus to life didn’t translate to the drinks menu. Even the richest, most authentic Indian menus were under-served by beverages that didn’t reflect Indian flavors and ingredients. This is changing now, leading to more cohesive and exciting menus and new intriguing options for American imbibers to explore.

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The First Dive Watch Certified to 1,000 Meters Is Back

Are you one o’ them hardcore types — the guys for whom 100m of water resistance isn’t enough? Maybe you crave something more serious…a certified, deep-diving chunk of steel on your wrist that can take 1,000 meters of lickin’ and keep on tickin’? For about $2,000, you can nab yourself the Ollech & Wajs C-1000A, a special 60th-anniversary model that celebrates the very first 1,000m-certified dive watch. Yes, you read that right: The first watch certified to 1,000 was not one from one of the big brands, but from a small, family-owned concern established in 1956.