Bride Cancels & Rebooks Oahu Wedding! – And a great comment too.

Aloha Tiki’s!

Hi, I sent an email to cancel my reception at Tiki's due to an unexpected circumstance that happened a few weeks ago.

I thought that we would not be able to carry out our original wedding plans but things have turned around for us! My fiancé and I decided to keep our original wedding plans of getting married on your island, and we would still like our reception dinner to be at Tiki's.

The customer service that you gave us in this whole process has won us over, and we would not want to have our reception anywhere else. I am very very sorry for any confusion this may cause, but we would like to keep our original reservations with your business if possible.

--Olivia

Tiki's to host the XTERRA Trail Running World Championship 2009 After Party. This Sunday - Open to the Public


World Champioship Logos

The XTERRA Trail Running World Championship is an off-road, half-marathon distance “Xduro” scheduled for December 6, 2009 on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The event will also host two shorter distance trail runs, free kids races, an adventure walk for charity, great food and stunning scenery.

At last year’s inaugural event, more than 800 runners from 32 states and eight countries participated in the 5, 10, and 21km events.  Top male and female finishers were awarded from the $10,000 prize purse.

Kualoa Ranch RunnersThe spectacular Kualoa Ranch, on the northeastern side of Oahu less than an hour from Honolulu, will once again host this ultimate Hawaiian experience for the international field of trail runners.

The 4,000-acre working cattle ranch reaches from the steep mountain cliffs to the sparkling sea and the terrain varies from dense rainforest to broad open valleys and from beautiful white sand beaches to awesome verdant cliff faces. The epic nature of Kualoa Ranch has inspired television shows and Hollywood films such as Jurassic Park, Windtalkers, Pearl Harbor, Godzilla, Tears of the Sun, 50 First Dates, and LOST.

The XTERRA Trail Running World Championship is held in conjunction with the 2009 XTERRA Trail Run Series, a collection of adventurous, off-road trail runs of various distances spanning the globe from Malibu to Japan.  

While it is NOT necessary to qualify for the 2009 XTERRA Trail Run World event, runners who complete one of the half-marathon distance XTERRA Xduro events throughout the season in less than 3 hours will receive special recognition on race day.

XTERRA After Party at is been held at  Tiki’s Grill & Bar in Waikiki at 6pm on December 6, 2009.
(Drink specials, live music, and video highlights at 7pm.  Dinner available for purchase)

 

Todd shows how to make a "Caipirissima" a caipirinha made with rum instead of cachaça.

Todd shows how to make a "Caipirissima" a caipirinha made with rum instead of cachaça. The caipirinha is the national cocktail of Brazil. The rum he used is Cruzan and the limes are from Michael's home on in Lahaina on Maui. If you rent from Michael you get free limes.

Caipirinha

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Caipirinha
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National cocktail of Brazil
Type Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume
Served On the rocks; poured over ice
Standard garnish lemon[1]
Standard drinkware
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Old fashioned glass
Commonly used ingredients
  • 5.0 cl (1⅔ fl oz) cachaça
  • ½ lemon cut into 4 wedges (or tahiti lime, but not key lime)
  • 2 teaspoons crystal or refined sugar
Preparation Place lemon and sugar into old fashioned glass and muddle (mash the two ingredients together using a muddler or a wooden spoon). Fill the glass with crushed ice and add the Cachaça.[2]
Notes A wide variety of fresh fruits can be used in place of lemon. In the absence of cachaça, vodka can be used.

Caipirinha (Portuguese pronunciation: [kajpiˈɾĩɲɐ]) is Brazil's national cocktail, made with cachaça (pronounced [kaˈʃasɐ]), sugar and lemon[1]. Cachaça is Brazil's most common distilled alcoholic beverage. While both rum and cachaça are made from sugarcane-derived products, most rum is made from molasses. Specifically with cachaça, the alcohol results from the the fermentation of sugarcane juice that is afterwards distilled.

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Popularity

The caipirinha is the national cocktail of Brazil,[3] and is enjoyed in restaurants, bars, and many households throughout the country. Once almost unknown outside Brazil, the drink has become more popular and more widely available in recent years, in large part due to the rising availability of first-rate brands of cachaça outside Brazil.[4] The International Bartenders Association has designated it as one of their Official Cocktails[5].

Name

The word "caipirinha" is the diminutive version of the word "caipira", which refers to someone from the countryside, being an almost exact equivalent of the American English hillbilly. The word may be used as either a masculine or a feminine noun, but when referring to this drink it is only feminine (usage of diminutives is common in Brazil). However, a Brazilian hardly ever thinks of a "country person" when ordering a "Caipirinha". In the mind of a Brazilian, the word "Caipirinha" is mostly associated with the drink itself.

Variations

Caipivodka (or Caipiroska), which uses vodka instead of cachaça.
  • Most variations of the caipirinha arise from the unavailability of some ingredient, such as the Caipivodka, (also known as Caipiroska) in which vodka substitutes for cachaça. "Caipirissima" is a caipirinha made with rum instead of cachaça; the word was coined for an advertisement for a popular rum brand in the late 70's, and it is not widely employed.
  • Caipirão is a typical variation from Portugal. It's done using the typical portuguese liqueur Licor Beirão instead of cachaça.
  • CaipirItaly is a typical variation from Italy. It's done using Bitter Campari instead of cachaça.
  • Outside Brazil, it's frequently made with lime instead of lemon. The IBA lists it that way.
  • The term caipirinha is sometimes used to describe any cachaça and fruit juice drink (e.g. a "Passionfruit Caipirinha"), although the technical term for these types of drinks is batida.

See also

References and notes

  1. ^ a b http://www6.senado.gov.br/legislacao/ListaPublicacoes.action?id=237488
  2. ^ http://www.caipirinhacocktail.com/caipirinha-recipe
  3. ^ Mackay, Jordan (August 10, 2006), "Made in Brazil", 7x7 Magazine, http://www.7x7.com/content/made-brazil .
  4. ^ Willey, Rob (February 2006). "Everyday with Rachael Ray". Cane and Able. http://www.belezabrazil.com/pages/pres_03.asp?id=70. Retrieved 2007-01-14. "The caipirinha--a sour-sweet combination of crushed limes, sugar and cachaça—has become the darling of American bartenders, and first-rate cachaça is at last finding a place on American liquor-store shelves." 
  5. ^ "IBA Homepage". IBA. 2005-2007. http://www.iba-world.com/english/cocktails/. Retrieved 2007-04-14. 

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Tiki's new local beer is "Big Aloha Blonde"

We are proud to be serving a local beer, brewed fresh less than five miles from Tikis. The Kegs are filled to order on the day that they are delivered so it is the freshest beer you can get in Waikiki.

Big Aloha Blonde
ABV  4.5%
International Bittering Units  18
Straw colored, crisp and clean with a very delicate hop profile.
Big Aloha Blonde is ideally suited for Hawaii's tropical climate. 
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Tiki's new local beer is "Big Aloha Blonde"