NATIONAL MAI TAI DAY

Thursday, June 30, 2022

June 30th is National Mai Tai Day and I can’t think of a better reason for a drink! According to legend, Victor Bergeron, aka “Trader Vic“, tested this drink on two friends from Tahiti in 1944. When they tasted it, one of them said “Mai Tai-Roa Aé”, which means “‘Out of this world, the best!” in Tahitian. Thus the name was born.

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Now over the years, there has been some controversy over whether Vic or  Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gantt (Don the Beachcomber) was really responsible for creating the first drink called the Mai Tai. I tend to side with Simon Difford’s thoughts in Difford’s Guide: Vic’s is the one that people order today, that’s what counts.

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Five Food Finds about Mai Tai:

• The Zombie was the Cosmopolitan of its day. The Zombie was the drink that put tiki on the map.

• In 1959 the Mai Tai knocked the Zombie off its pedestal.

• That’s the year Hawaii became a state.

• Hawaii became a tourist mecca almost overnight.

• All the tourists went to luaus and sere served a fruity drink called the Mai Tai.

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HOW TO OBSERVE

Try this original Mai Tai recipe listed below and share it with your friends.

HISTORY

Within our research, we were unable to identify the creator of National Mai Tai Day.

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TRADER VIC’S MAI TAI – ORIGINAL

Trader Vic’s Mai Tai, The Original Formula – 1944
Recipe Type:    Drinks
Cuisine:            American
Prep time:         
Total time:         
Serves:              1

Ingredients

• 2 ounces of 17-year old J. Wray & Nephew Rum over shaved ice.
• Add juice from one fresh lime.
• 1/2 ounce Holland DeKuyper Orange Curacao.
• 1/4 ounce Trader Vic’s Rock Candy Syrup.
• 1/2 ounce French Garier Orgeat Syrup

Instructions

1. Shake vigorously with ice.

2. Strain into an ice-filled double-old fashioned glass.

3. Add a sprig of fresh mint

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