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Trader Vic is largely credited with inventing the Scorpion Bowl, which after the Mai Tai and the Fog Cutter was Vic's third most famous cocktail. [5] As called for in his Bartender's Guide from 1947, his Scorpion Punch was meant for twelve people with listed ingredients of: 1 1/2 bottles of Puerto Rican rum, 2 oz gin, 2 oz brandy, 1 pt fresh lemon juice, 1/2 pt fresh orange juice, 1/2 pt ...
Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book (Chinese: 培梅食譜) is a cookbook series by Fu Pei-mei, written in both Chinese and English. [1] There were three volumes, the first published in 1969 and the last published in 1979. [2] The sales of the first volume reached 500,000. [3]
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 the addition of amaretto, falernum, bitters, grenadine, orange, pineapple and grapefruit juices, and so on.
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Cracker Barrel Chicken Pot Pie. Rotisserie chicken, store-bought pie crusts, and plenty of veggies allow you to get a hearty meal on the table without having to create every element from scratch.
The Mai-Kai is a Polynesian-themed restaurant and tiki bar in Oakland Park, Florida. It opened to the public on December 28, 1956, and is one of the few "Grand Polynesian Palaces of Tiki" still in operation today. [3] In 2015 it was named the "best tiki bar in the world" by Critiki, an organization of fans of Polynesian pop culture. [4]
A tiki bar is a themed drinking establishment that serves elaborate cocktails, especially rum-based mixed drinks such as the Mai Tai and Zombie cocktails. [1] Tiki bars are aesthetically defined by their tiki culture décor which is based upon a romanticized conception of tropical cultures, most commonly Polynesian .
In the New York Times bestseller and 2012 100 Notable Books, Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter, Trader Vic's in Seattle Washington is the setting of a scene between two characters in September 1967. In Chapter 16, "After the Fall" a couple meet at Trader Vic's and one walks "into a burst of warm air and bamboo, tiki and totem, dugout canoe hung ...