Hot Lava (a.k.a "How Bowers") plays baritone ukulele and sings with America's best tiki music band, The Crazed Mugs. He lives in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida with his wife and son. Contact
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Boscov’s, billed as “the country’s largest family-owned department store” has these tiki bar-themed place mats on sale. Besides the depiction of pineapple and tiki mugs, the mat contains “da Vinci Code”-esque recipes for a pina colada and a zombie hidden in the background.
On sale for $2.99, regularly $4.99.
Santa Cruz visual artist Chongolio has branched out into the world of podcasting with Coconut Wired.
So far, each episode’s tracklist has been a who’s who list of contemporary artists working in the exotica vein, with contributions from Tiki King, Ape, The Mai-Kai Gents and The Crazed Mugs. You can download each episode by visiting the Coconut Wired website or subscribe and automatically receive new episodes using Apple’s iTunes.
The west coast of Florida is pretty sparse as far as tiki bars and restaurants go, so when a new Hawaiian-influenced eatery opens up, it’s not the end of the world if the interior isn’t decked out like the Mai Kai.
Hawaiian-born chef Brett Gardiner created Restaurant Hapa as an intimate, 11 table restaurant where he could combine Asian and French influences to create a unique dining experience. The restaurant has been well-reviewed—so far I’ve only been able to experience it as a walk by on my way to the sub shop in the same plaza. Someday…
3970 Tampa Road, Oldsmar • (813) 749-8400
Seatings from 6 to 9:15 p.m., Tuesday though Saturday
Entrees, $24 to $32
Link to St. Pete Times review
Monster Vintage has a huge selection of almost 100 vintage hawaiian shirts and floral print dresses for sale. Prices start at around $40, although there are some pricey ones there as well.
I ran across this graphic doing a Google search for “tiki” about a month ago. It was connected to a website that no longer functioned, I think from the Netherlands.
Does anyone know anything about Tiki Airlines? Please leave a comment if you do!
Ashville, North Carolina’s Hula Cats (not to be confused with the Haole Kats) plays hapa haole music in an area known best for other kinds of mountain music.
An offshoot of popular local band, The Mad Tea Party, the group doesn’t currently have a CD available, but can be booked for shows.
Link to website | Play streaming mp3 of The Hukilau Song | Play streaming mp3 of Lovely Hula Hands
Doombuggy Productions specializes in producing guides for DIY homages to Disneyland—in particular The Haunted Mansion. But their Adventureland section has some nice things for Enchanted Tiki Room lovers too.
The site has recipes of simulations of the Tiki Room queue favorite Dole Whip, as well as reproductions of entries and beverages from the now defunct Tahitian Terrace and the soon to be closed (or so the rumor goes) Bengal Barbecue.
UPDATE: Doombuggy Productions website is now offline, but some of the articles have been archived at JimHillMedia.com, including many of the Adventureland recipes.
UPDATE 2: The recipe for the Dole Whip was conspicuously absent from the link above, so I grabbed it from a cached version of the site using the Internet Wayback Machine. Enjoy!
Ingredients
Ice Cream Maker
1 quart pineapple juice (Dole)
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups cream
3 cups sugar
milk
1. Mix the pineapple juice and sugar…make sure that the sugar is dissolved.
2. Next add the cream and vanilla.
3. Poor the whole mixture into the Ice Cream container.
4. Add milk to finish filling to the “fill line”
At this point simply follow the instructions on your ice cream maker.
When the ice cream is ready you can serve it as is or you can stick it in the freezer for a while and let it set up a bit.
