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The
Mai Tai is a cocktail purportedly invented at the Trader Vic
restaurant in Oakland, California, in 1944. The friend and rival
of Trader Vic, Don the Beachcomber, insisted having created the
first draft in 1933 in his then-newly-opened small bar (today a
famous restaurant) in Hollywood. The Beachcomber's recipe is
much more complicated than that of the Trader, and has a taste
very different. "Maitai" is the Tahitian word for
"good." An Internet search for references to the word
"rum" (rum in English) 40 shows 600 results for
"Maitai" 38 and 400 results for "Mai Tai"
and the correct use for this ambiguous term, one or two words.
The history of Trader Vic on his invention is that the Trader
(Victor J. Bergeron) created it one afternoon for some friends
visiting from Tahiti. One of them tried it and said "Maitai
roa!" ( "Very good!"), And hence the name
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