Post #83469 by Quince_at_Dannys on Mon, Mar 29, 2004 4:32 PM

Just got back from 3 nights at the Mai Kai, and it was fabulous as always. Didn't get the Mai Tai--theirs is not one of my favorites, and there's so many other delights I needed to sample--but if memory serves me, it had grapefruit juice and a little of that "mystery flavor" that goes into most of their drinks (I haven't decoded what it is--my taste buds tell me daikon radish juice, but my brain says no frickin way). I'd recommend checking out the Don the Beachcomber Mai Tai--he was big into grapefruit, and the Mai Kai's drink menu is basically Don B's next of kin. Or, take the usual Mai Tai recipe and cross-polinate it with their Barrel o Rum recipe.

I can't relate to the headache thing--I've never gotten one at the Mai Kai, their drinks are just too darn good. My wife and I burned through 22 Mai Kai drinks and a small fortune in 3 evenings, so I have a pretty good notion that I'm Mai Kai headache-proof.