How to pronounce “tiki” in English

The cocktail revival owes a lot to tiki.

And that's totally taken from tiki.

And it looks like you've stepped into a tiki movie set.

Yeah, tiki drinks are one of the last category of cocktails to be brought back, because they had been in eclipse for many decades.

I mean, they're marching with tiki torches.

And the greatest, shining example of the tiki revival here in town, Smuggler's Cove-- you will see it in all its glory there.

Another fun fact, I call this the Tiki Lounge effect, so if you see words like exotic, oriental, spices,

And set up tiki bars.

But there was a historian named Geoff Berry who did the research and got the original recipes for all these old tiki drinks like the Mai Tai

And on the bottom "The Grog Log", an early '90s book by tiki guru named Jeff Berry, who has spent the last 20

You know, it has sort of a vaguely Latino tiki kind of a thing going on.

And like the Tonga Room-- that's an old tiki place.

I guess that's one other aside, because that has some strong ties locally, but the tiki revival has kind of brought-- rum has been the latest craze, I'd say,

And also, with all these thematic bars like Dead Rabbit and Black Tail, it's a fantasy world, and tiki was always about that.

And I was going say, historically, actually, talking about tiki, the roots are from California, both here and Don the Beachcomber.