Tiki Central / Tiki Drinks and Food / the ideal Mai Tai formula?
Post #212509 by martiki on Fri, Feb 3, 2006 5:03 PM
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Speaking of the Royal Hawaiian Mai Tai.... From Trader Vic's Autobiography: "After we came out with the Mai Tai, the Matson Steamship Line asked us to put together a list of good tropical drinks for their bars at the Royal Hawaiian, the Surf Rider, and the Moana, all in Hawaii. So I took Frank Puhlt, our head bartender, down to Oahu and we made a list of six drinks and illustrated them with hawaiian menehunes, the little people of Hawaii. Inside of three months the Mai Tai was the most popular drink in the Royal Hawaiian and everybody else in Hawaii was making Mai Tais with all sorts of crazy formulas." |