Post #235170 by Tipsy McStagger on Wed, May 31, 2006 10:35 PM

..here's what i was told, by the bartender of 15 years at trader vics before they closed at the palmer house..he said, that the recipe on the mai tai mix of trader vics is bogus (as if we didn't know) because they would never give away the real recipe to make the original ones found at traders vics ..it was written like that on purpose because hey!!, if folks could make it themselves, they wouldn't need to spend $8 or $9 for one at the trader vics location..that said, he said the secret was in the lime..true traders mai tais are a mix of the trader vics mai tai mix, rum and fresh limes .....forget the other ingredients he said.....it's just a smoke screen......now, if i wasn't so drunk at the time, i would have remembered the brand of rum...there are two ways to make this mai tai...when they were out of that particular rum, he told me the name of a substitue that was used where you could barely tell the difference between the two...luckily i still have his business card....i may have to drop a dime to find out the exact proportions.......