Update: Contest now closed (comments closed), and we spinned the random for a winner: Congrats to reader Jordan, whose number came up and who promptly claimed her prize. Thanks, everyone, for playing.
Got the wintertime blues? How about this taste o’ tiki-tropical to take them away? Yes, time for our second giveaway of the new year: Enter for a chance to win this special, limited-edition tiki mug — based on an actual tiki within the Molokai Bar at the Mai Kai — created by Danny Gallardo aka Tiki Diablo — the same super-talented artist who designed the Home Depot tikis and tiki bars that we frenzied over this past summer. Danny has just finished this batch of mugs. We reached out to see if he wanted to contribute one for a giveaway. And he said yes!
Description from Tiki Diablo’s website:
The Mai Kai Mug comes in three colors — Lagoon Green, Black Velvet and Tobacco Brown
It is based on a seldom seen Tiki from the Molokai Bar, located in the beautiful and Historic Mai Kai Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The tiki comes with a nautical deadeye pendant that you may borrow from him. The mug is 10 inches tall and holds about 24oz (approximately 700 ml).
133 of each color will be made. The mug retails for $75 and begins shipping February 1, 2016.
How to enter to win a Mai-Kai tiki mug by Tiki Diablo:
- To win, you must be a subscriber to our newsletter (Yes, this is “what’s in it for the blog” — you can opt out at any time after the contest ends, or continue on for the stories and because our goal is to schedule a giveaway every two weeks.)
- To enter, use the Comment field on this post below and tell us: what’s your favorite tiki drink. Or whatever, we’re easy.
- One entry per person. U.S. lower 48 states only.
- Entries close on Friday, Feb. 5, around 5 p.m. Eastern — that is, we will close the Comments field at that time.
- Prize: There will be one winner. The winner will receive one mug in the color of their choice directly from Tiki Diablo.
- Pam will choose the winners via the Random Number Generator at random.org. We will email each person. [Tip: Be sure you enter your email address correctly in the email field of the Comment form.] The winner will have five business days to respond. If we do not hear from them, we will choose the next person who commented. Lather, rinse, repeat. We will post the winner’s first name as soon as all is confirmed.
- Terms of use apply.
Many thanks to Danny! Gorgeous job!
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Jenny says
I love a Mai Tai! These mugs are great!
Pam Holland says
Use as a decoration, with other tiki items.
Donna D says
Anything with Midori
Rick Pace says
Mai Tai is the drink of choice for me.
Al says
My cover story was that I’d been sent to Hawaii to check on a construction project, and the firm allowed me to take my wife, six kids and our maid, Alice, along. It was completely plausible. Everybody knew me as Mike Brady, the affable architect. No one but Alice knew my true identity — I was an international spy for the CIA.
Our station chief, Sam, had passed Alice the airplane tickets in a package of meat a couple days before. Before we knew it, the whole clan was jetting over the Pacific. This was a black ops job, strictly off the books. We’d be lucky to make it back alive. We were to pick up a cache of secret microfilm from our company spies and deliver to our sleeper on the island without blowing his cover.
I took Bobby with me to the construction site on our first day. Bobby had proven a quite resilient subject during his MKUltra training. He didn’t know I was a spy, but I knew I could count on him if things got dicey.
We stopped off for a refreshment on the way to the site, and I ordered a daiquiri. It was served in a delightful Mai Kai Mug complete with a nautical deadeye pendant that I could borrow from him. I’d be sporting that pendant later on the beach.
Maybe it was all the mind control experiments, but just like clockwork Bobby found the microfilm hidden in an ancient tiki which, according to an old Hawaiian legend, brings bad luck to anyone who touches it. Any normal eight year old would have been frightened by the legend, but that’s just how Bobby rolls.
Back at the hotel it was obvious that SMERSH had been tipped to the dead drop. Our sleeper on the island, Don Ho, let me know that our lives were in danger. Ho said I should hand off the microfilm to him at the Hawaiian burial grounds and then high-tail it out of there before the whole volcano erupted.
But first I had some business to attend to. I put on my swim trunks, slung the Tiki Diablo deadeye pendant around my neck, and ordered mai tais for Carol and myself. Again, they were served in stylish and elegant Mai Kai mugs. Mine was tobacco brown while Carol’s was lagoon green. Not to be left out, Alice soon had a Mai Kai mug in her hands as well. Alice’s mug was black velvet colored. We shared a knowing glance — “Black Velvet” had been Alice’s code name at the Bay of Pigs.
SMERSH first attacked by miniature submarine, and they went for Greg. Frogmen sabotaged his surfboard from underneath the waves. It was real professional stuff. Greg was lucky to get out alive.
Later SMERSH tried to crush Bobby with a wall hanging, but Bobby’s made of tougher stuff. He just laughed it off. Bobby’s seen some sh*t.
I thought the tarantula on Peter’s arm was particularly creative by SMERSH standards. But none of this phased me. I didn’t mind keeping my family in mortal danger for a little while more if it meant that I could have another drink from those fantastic Mai Kai mugs by Tiki Diablo. They were worth the risk.
With a Mai Kai mug in hand, I had the whole operation under control. Later that evening I’d take the family up to the ancient Hawaiian burial grounds and hand the tiki over to Don Ho. But I hadn’t counted on stumbling across Professor Hubert Whitehead, the genius behind MKUltra. Whitehead had fallen off the radar when the lid blew off of his mind control experiments in the 1960s. Officially he’d been reassigned to England practicing under the name of “Phibes.” But I found him on the big island of Hawaii. And we nearly met our end at his deranged hands.
Professor Whitehead trapped the boys in a cave at the burial ground. Ho and I were helpless. But that’s when Alice decided to take matters into her own hands.
I don’t know what Alice said to Whitehead, and I don’t want to know. To this day Black Velvet won’t talk much about it. She just brushes it off and says, “if you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.” But whatever she said, it chilled the blood of one of the most notorious CIA operatives alive.
Twenty minutes after her chat, Whitehead was off the island. I had a piña colada in a luxurious Mai Kai mug by Tiki Diablo. And we had a great, big Hawaiian party for our last night on the island, just like any other normal American family.
Al says
Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
That’s all I hear from you, Pam!
Brandon Weilacher says
While my wife loooooves the coconut milk punch from Kon Tiki here in Tucson, I prefer their Fog Cutter or Mai Tai or even a Tropical Itch.
Kristen Karvala says
Getting my blender ready for Tiki Head Bnana Daiquiri’s! *;D.
Kristun says
Hurricane! Yum.….
John Beres says
A Mai Tai at the Mai Kai is my favorite drink of all time!
Richard Dietzel says
Please, please, please.