good article on Mai Kai and the Hukilau

Here is a positive, fun article on the Mai Kai and Hukilau, that gets most everything right.

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-06-26/music/aloha-goodbye-no-way/

They describe the 'thin, bespectled' Hanford as wearing a small, island-crafted wooden whistle on a rope around his neck.

Nice article! Its good to see a reporter who doesn't want to do "look down" on tiki.

Good article from the perspective of someone from the "outside" looking in. Very objective. But after a few drinks sounds like she wished she had a bright barkcloth dress on so she could do some rump shakin. I mean really its hard NOT to have fun at any tiki event especially the Hukilau i dont care who you are!

Oh ya the "Wholly Cats" killed me.

[ Edited by: Mongoloid 2008-06-27 09:27 ]

It's not a Palm Pilot. It's an iPhone. :)

On 2008-06-27 11:38, hanford_lemoore wrote:
It's not a Palm Pilot. It's an iPhone. :)

Geez, I haven't seen a Palm Pilot since at least 2001..most people assume nowadays that if you have a smartphone it's a Blackberry, anyways..so what were the 22 drinks Hanford?

I got into Ft. Lauderdale on Wednesday, not Thursday as the article states, and started the list then. There's 52 drinks on the menu, I made it through 30. Here's the entire list of drinks I made it through during those 5 days:

Shark bite
Mara amu
Planters punch
Oh so deadly
Cobra's kiss
Deep sea diver
Rum julep
Mutiny
K o cooler
Derby daiquiri
Rum barrel
Jet Pilot
Black magic
Mai Tai
Bora bora
Hukilau
151 swizzle
Martinique Milk Punch
Floritia daiquiri
Mai kai swizzle
Mai Kai special
Malayan Mist
Somoan Grog
S.o.s.
Russian roulette
Hidden pearls
Yeomans Grog
Banana daiquiri
Tahitian breeze
Zulu #1

Hanford...YOU ARE THE MAN! too much.
I did like how you can recognize some of the people she's describing... Sounds like Atomikitty, crazy Al, definitely Loki!

NICE Article

Good to read some tiki news reports
with an inside looking out, rather than
the other way around feel. Get the feel
others may step up to the plate & keep the
Hukilau or revised version of it going @
the Mai Kai in 2009.

Thortiki

Hanford only had 23 drinks by Sat. nite--- What a wimp...:P

Only 23 drinks, but more than one of how many?

Yea, just the fact that it was 23 different drinks is pretty impressive...