Post #577880 by thePorpoise on Sat, Feb 26, 2011 12:58 PM

I've never been to Tiki-Ti (or L.A. for that matter) but this drink topic is fascinating. Googling around, looks like the bar itself describes the drink as being created when Ray grabbed "the wrong two syrups" while making an Anting Anting. If this is true, then it seems the base spirits and juices are the same in the two drinks. Everyone describes a vanilla flavor, and the pictures of the two drinks on the web show the Mistake is much redder, so it seems logical that the "mistake" = vanilla syrup and passion fruit syrup. Solve the Anting Anting and you'll have the rest.

meantime, I tried out the two recipes above: the "Colorado" mistake, and the "Hiltiki" mistake. These both made nice drinks, with similarities and differences to each other, but nothing that struck me as a memorable showcase drink for a bar to hang its hat on as the Ray's Mistake has apparently become. Hiltiki's recipe tasted like a balanced Spindrift (or a vanilla Fogcutter). The Colorado drink tasted like a more tart, less coconutty Leilani Volcano. Liked them both. (Coconut milk has a very light flavor, i could see where one might interpret that from a lightly vanilla drink)