plural mai tais
: a cocktail made with rum, curaçao, orgeat, lime, and fruit juices
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Dig your toes in the sand while sipping a mai tai and munching on the restaurant’s famous Bimini Bread with Aruba Glaze and whipped honey butter.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025
There are plenty of local businesses including an adorable ukulele shop that sells the real deal, and Tahiti Nui, which throws its hat in the ring for best Kauai mai tai.
—Nora Heston Tarte, Mercury News, 25 Dec. 2025
Wiki wiki mai tai mix, lime, club soda *contains nuts
LOCATION: One Fourteen Whiskey Row, 114 W. Main St.
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—Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Nov. 2025
Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar owes a debt to Don the Beachcomber in Hollywood and Trader Vic’s in Oakland — the rival Tiki bars that gave birth to the pop culture movement in the mid-1930s and both lay claim to creating the mai tai cocktail.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025
There are plenty of local businesses including an adorable ukulele shop that sells the real deal, and Tahiti Nui, which throws its hat in the ring for best Kauai mai tai.
—Nora Heston Tarte, Mercury News, 25 Dec. 2025
Wiki wiki mai tai mix, lime, club soda *contains nuts
LOCATION: One Fourteen Whiskey Row, 114 W. Main St.
2025 Gift Guide: Shopping for Christmas gifts?
—Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Nov. 2025
Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar owes a debt to Don the Beachcomber in Hollywood and Trader Vic’s in Oakland — the rival Tiki bars that gave birth to the pop culture movement in the mid-1930s and both lay claim to creating the mai tai cocktail.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Mai tai.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mai%20tai. Accessed 1 Jan. 2026.
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