Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Hawaiian Village , New Westminster BC, CANADA (Restaurant)
Post #451113 by TabooDan on Fri, May 1, 2009 5:57 PM
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Name:Hawaiian Village Description: The Hawaiian Village was established in 1980 in New Westminster, BC, Canada, which is about 30 minutes away from Vancouver. The restaurant was open for 18 years and closed it's doors in 1998. The Hawaiian Village had two floors and was very heavily decorated with all the tropical foliage one could find! The down stairs featured a bar, a few Tiki Masks, palm trees, rattan furniture and lamps, bamboo dividers, thatching, matting, and an area that was used for Karaoke. If you ask anybody who went there, they remember the place for it's karaoke! This was a bit before everywhere was doing it and when it still was fun and not so annoying! Is that okay to say or is it just me?? Heading downstairs, I remember was matting on either side of the walls and a bamboo handrail. Interestingly, after it had changed names and themes for over 8 years, when you walked in through the front entrance of the Sushi Restaurant, there was still the stair way that went down stairs and it still had the matting and bamboo rail that went down to a closed door. I would have loved to get down there and seen what else lurked below! When that Sushi place changed owners, they did an overhaul and filled in the stair way. I lost my chance!! I did try but there was a bit of a language barrier and they did not want to give me any spare time. I believe there was also a separate bar upstairs along with the private dining huts. I managed to go there once when I was 17 or so and remember thinking the place as being pretty cool but really didn't get out to it again. I thought the drinks were good and I kept one of those plastic monkey rim hangers and the matchbook which I still have. This matchbook is actually the only one I have seen since! The drinks came in different Tiki mugs and and I remember the food coming to the plates steaming and sizzling hot!! Here's some great information off their hard to find matchbook: " ALOHA!.....Hawaiian Tonight! We welcome you as our guests at the exotic Hawaiian Village. Let us entertain you with the best of Hawaiian songs and music....pamper you with the finest Polynesian hospitality. Dine in our torch-lit Tropical Garden Dining Room or in our Hawaiian Village Dining Room (Individual thatched huts for more romantic dining pleasure) Let your taste be for the spice of life accompanied with EXOTIC DRINKS AND FOODS WHICH INCLUDES: Luau Bo-Bo Do come and enjoy the exotic Hawaiian Village for a lovely evening. I will be posting a few more things shortly. TabooDan [ Edited by: TabooDan 2009-05-01 18:28 ] |