For the drinkers.... how far have you gone? - Tiki Drinks and Food

K Kono Member Orlando Joined: Oct 08, 2003 Posts: 1266	K Kono Posted posted on Wed, Jul 6, 2005 7:40 PM On 2005-05-11 16:08, johntiki wrote: Kono, how dare you sir!! I will not stand idly by and watch you insult the Missionary's Downfall! :wink: I have to admit this one took a bit of getting used to but if you decide to give it another chance I think you'll find it real refreshing. In order to make it taste more like a tropical drink and less like a biannual cleaning at the dentist's office, I add more pineapple than specified. Load up the blender with a healthy full chunk of pineapple and the taste will improve dramatically. At my bar we’ve been guzzling down pitchers of Downfall’s on a consistent basis – my wife has even proclaimed that the Missionary’s Downfall is now her favorite drink! Oh I almost forgot the most important improvement... add another ounce of the Bacardi to liven it up a bit! Ha! I missed this until now. More pineapple and rum? Sounds like an improvement, maybe less mint as well? I felt like I was eating a mint icee and I was flossing green flecks out of my teeth for days! I'll try it again when I work up enough nerve. :) I went looking for this thread because I remembered we were discussing the amount of lime used in the drinks. I wanted to mention that in the new "Trader Vic's Tiki Party" book the lime juice has been drastically cut in the recipes. The drink recipes were provided by Trader Vics VP Sven Koch and I must think more reflective of what they are currently serving at TV's. The Trader Vic's Mai Tai has only .5oz lime juice! You don't know how much this gladdens my heart. They also include the original recipe (one large lime) and a recipe for using the Mai Tai mix. It's a bit of an odd book, part history, part advert for TV products, part recipes and part intro to the tiki theme for the Target crowd. The author writes recipe books (The Pancake Handbook for example) and I'm guessing is probably not a real tikiphile. The book opens with some TV history, which looks good enough. Next follows a section on how to set up a "Tiki Party" which, for the Tiki Central audience at least, is pretty damn lame (recommends mixing in reggae with your Don Ho but no mention of Denny, Baxter, Lyman etc, also that tiki ceramicware can be fun to collect but you really want to use clear glassware at the shindig for better presentation (WTF??)). There's also a lot of cheesy Trader Vics product placement (photos including Trader Vics brand rums but no Lemon Hart or Havana Club). They do plug Tiki Farm though, which is cool. The reason to buy the book is for all of the recipes; both food and drink. With a quick flipping of the pages I can say that I didn't see a single drink with more than .5oz lime juice! The photo of the ahi poke has me drooling and I may have to whip some up this weekend

On 2005-05-11 16:08, johntiki wrote:
Kono, how dare you sir!! I will not stand idly by and watch you insult the Missionary's Downfall! :wink: I have to admit this one took a bit of getting used to but if you decide to give it another chance I think you'll find it real refreshing. In order to make it taste more like a tropical drink and less like a biannual cleaning at the dentist's office, I add more pineapple than specified. Load up the blender with a healthy full chunk of pineapple and the taste will improve dramatically. At my bar we’ve been guzzling down pitchers of Downfall’s on a consistent basis – my wife has even proclaimed that the Missionary’s Downfall is now her favorite drink!

Oh I almost forgot the most important improvement... add another ounce of the Bacardi to liven it up a bit!

Ha! I missed this until now. More pineapple and rum? Sounds like an improvement, maybe less mint as well? I felt like I was eating a mint icee and I was flossing green flecks out of my teeth for days! I'll try it again when I work up enough nerve. :)

I went looking for this thread because I remembered we were discussing the amount of lime used in the drinks. I wanted to mention that in the new "Trader Vic's Tiki Party" book the lime juice has been drastically cut in the recipes. The drink recipes were provided by Trader Vics VP Sven Koch and I must think more reflective of what they are currently serving at TV's. The Trader Vic's Mai Tai has only .5oz lime juice! You don't know how much this gladdens my heart. They also include the original recipe (one large lime) and a recipe for using the Mai Tai mix.

It's a bit of an odd book, part history, part advert for TV products, part recipes and part intro to the tiki theme for the Target crowd. The author writes recipe books (The Pancake Handbook for example) and I'm guessing is probably not a real tikiphile. The book opens with some TV history, which looks good enough. Next follows a section on how to set up a "Tiki Party" which, for the Tiki Central audience at least, is pretty damn lame (recommends mixing in reggae with your Don Ho but no mention of Denny, Baxter, Lyman etc, also that tiki ceramicware can be fun to collect but you really want to use clear glassware at the shindig for better presentation (WTF??)). There's also a lot of cheesy Trader Vics product placement (photos including Trader Vics brand rums but no Lemon Hart or Havana Club). They do plug Tiki Farm though, which is cool. The reason to buy the book is for all of the recipes; both food and drink. With a quick flipping of the pages I can say that I didn't see a single drink with more than .5oz lime juice!

The photo of the ahi poke has me drooling and I may have to whip some up this weekend

Post #170054 by Kono on Wed, Jul 6, 2005 7:40 PM