Post #42369 by Basement Kahuna on Thu, Jul 10, 2003 1:28 AM

Well, thing is, when you visit the Mai Kai you ARE seeing the Mai Kai of the 60's. Unlike Kahiki, the ownership had respect for the place straight through, and it has rewarded them royally. Kahiki foods in all likelihood doesn't put 7.5 million dollars a year in the bank selling frozen eggrolls and various other cardboard microwave slop that has replaced their once world-famous cuisine.. The Mai Kai does....and they have remained one of the top epicurean establishments in the continental U.S. and the world at large. Greed is a great killer, and it's a shame that it killed the Kahiki. I have reverence for the Kahiki,and respect, but it was far and away no Mai Kai, and now that it is lost to time (even on the eve of this great tiki resurgence), never will be. Nothing before or since the Mai Kai even compares, anywhere.