Post #122218 by Satan's Sin on Thu, Oct 28, 2004 7:40 AM

I was at the Bamboo Hut in San Francisco recently. Very very nice tiki interior, floats on ceiling, giganto tiki mask on wall with red lightbulb eyes, rattan walls, masks, even an outrigger hanging above ... and pounding, driving late 80s dance music. Bartender said there was absolutely nothing he could do about it. World would come to an end if it changed. This, after I had tipped him generously.

I love dance music. I love tiki. I also love steak, and I also love chocolate. This place was like having steak covered with chocolate sauce.

The only good thing was that I had dragged three business associates along. They had not thought about tiki much before, but were totally and instantly enchanted. And even more so when I told them that there was a form, a theme, a history to this thing called tiki. So three new converts.
Plus, the Mai Tais were just outstanding. But the Scorpian was not as good as a 7/11 Slurpee, and the straws were scandalously short.

In the end -- half a tiki was better than none.