Mai Tai - Mai Tai Ingredients Easy

The Mai Tai is an alcoholic cocktail based on rum, Curaçao liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lime juice, associated with Polynesian-style settings.

"Maita'i" is the Tahitian word for "good"; but the drink is spelled as two words, sometimes hyphenated or capitalized. It has no connection with Mai Thai (Thai Silk)

History

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Victor J. Bergeron claimed to have invented the Mai Tai in 1944 at his restaurant, Trader Vic's, in Oakland, California. Trader Vic's rival, Don the Beachcomber, claimed to have created it in 1933 at his then-new bar named for himself (later a famous restaurant) in Hollywood. Don the Beachcomber's recipe is more complex than that of Vic's and tastes quite different.

The Trader Vic's story of its invention is that the Trader (Victor J. Bergeron) created it one afternoon for some friends who were visiting from Tahiti. One of those friends, Carrie Guild, tasted it and cried out: "Maita'i roa ae!" (literally "very good!", figuratively "Out of this world! The best!")â€"hence the name.

Recipe

Tai Mocktail. Source : www.cupcakediariesblog.com

Most current recipes for Mai Tais based on Trader Vic's 1944 recipe include rum, lime juice, orgeat syrup, and orange liqueur (typically orange curaçao). Variants may include orange and grapefruit juices, bitters, grenadine, falernum, and so on. Various books from Victor Bergeron described using rum from Jamaica as well as from Martinique, which in modern usage is a Rhum Agricole. As noted in Smuggler's Cove from Martin Cate and Rebecca Cate, the Martinique rums used by Bergeron in the 1950s were most certainly not agricole rums.

Culture

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The Mai Tai became such a popular cocktail in the 1950sâ€"60s that many restaurants, particularly tiki-themed restaurants or bars, served them. The Mai Tai was also prominently featured in the Elvis Presley film Blue Hawaii.

Today, the Mai Tai is synonymous with Tiki culture both past and present.

As of 2008, Trader Vic's Restaurant chain began to open small establishments called Mai Tai Bars that primarily serve cocktails and pupus (appetizers).

References

Mai Tai Mocktail Party Punch - Liz on Call. Source : lizoncall.com

External links

Mai Tai recipe from Duke's on Waikiki Beach | Cheers! | Pinterest .... Source : www.pinterest.com

• Mai Tai links at Curlie (based on DMOZ)
• Tiki culture at Curlie (based on DMOZ)
• The Cocktail Spirit with Robert Hess - Video demonstration for making a proper Mai Tai

Trader Vic's Mai Tai | Post Prohibition. Source : postprohibition.com