Easter Island
Easter Island Easter Island is far off the coast of Chile, a South American country. The island is the southeastern most point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceana. It is most famous for its huge statues known…
Stone Cold Ice Mold
Fred Stone Cold Ice Mold Tiki Lover Alert! If you love the Tiki Polynesian culture, you immediately recognize this iconic stone face. It is of the famous statues that date back to ancient times. They…
Bikini
Bikini The Bikini is an international term for a 2-piece swimsuit or bathing suit. While it is nearly always spelled and pronounced the same way, Brazilians might spell it as Biquíni or Fio Dental (string…
Bikini Atoll
Bikini Atoll Bikini Atoll, pronounced Pikinni, meaning coconut place, is an atoll in the Marshall Islands in an area of the South Pacific Ocean between Asia, Australia and Hawaii known as Micronesia. From 1946 to 1958 during the…
Bell Pepper Syrup
Bell Pepper Syrup While in the Caribbean I came across a pepper so hot, its actually supposed to be hotter than Scotch Bonnet. Its name is Madam Jeanette or “Surinam Yellow”. While they are like…
Tovolo Tiki Ice
Tovolo Tiki Ice Molds This was a complete fail, no sense in beating around the bush here. It is not that it does not make ice, its the fact that it makes a cylindrical cube…
Kon Tiki
Kon Tiki For anyone that wants to try to understand the Tiki and Polynesian Pop culture craze, this is required reading and/or viewing. While some might want to clearly define what Polynesian Pop is, you…
Hunan Taste
Hunan Taste From the highway this looks so bizarre and out of place it can only a lure to draw in people to a lame all you can eat buffet where quantity is king for…
Blue Bar
Renaissance Aruba Blue Bar On the rooftop of a strip mall where a hotel resides, is one of the best places to get Polynesian cocktails I thought I could ever find. I never really expected…
Otto’s Shrunken Head
Otto's Shrunken Head As their story goes, a small group of native New Yorkers got together in early 2002 and decided that New York City did not have a decent Tiki Bar. The demise of…
Waitiki
Waitiki Waitiki in Orlando Florida and in the general area of Disney World should the adults need a break from Mickey Mouse. I know I did. Of course Disney has their own Tiki restaurant, but…
China Gourmet
China Gourmet – West Orange NJ For the longest time I’ve wanted to return here. It seemed really tiki (at least on the outside) and these places are quickly vanishing for fast-food and fast casual…
China Paradise
China Paradise CLOSED 2016 [ORIGINALLY POSTED 11/11/12, Now Closed] After 25 years this same restaurant in the same location still seems to be fairly reliable. Their website claims they have been in business over 40…
Lee’s Hawaiian
Lee's Hawaiian Islander What to love about places like this, is that they have not changed on the inside or out for nearly half a century. Its really surreal to step off the street into…
Chan’s Dragon Inn
Chan's Dragon Inn This is truly one of the last of the great Polynesian themed tiki bars. In New Jersey there are less than a handful left, and this is only one of 3 in…