Mai Tai such a popular cocktail in the 1950s–60s that many restaurants, particularly tiki-themed restaurants or bars, served them. The Mai Tai was also prominently featured in the Elvis Presley film "Blue Hawaii". Today, the Mai Tai is synonymous with Tiki culture both past and present. As of 2008, Trader Vic's Restaurant chain began to open small establishments called Mai Tai Bars that primarily serve cocktails and "pupus" (appetizers). Mai Tai The Mai Tai is a cocktail based on rum, Curaçao liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lime juice, associated with Polynesian-style settings. Victor J. Bergeron claimed to have invented the Mai Tai in
Ita Mai Tai gravelstone and coquina. In drill cores of the summit region the limestone reaches a thickness of and the mud of ; the mud formed in lagoonal settings. Terrigenous rocks have also been encountered within the limestones. Guyots such as Ita Mai Tai often accumulate ferromanganese crusts. These are generated by the oxidative precipitation of manganese salts which also include iron and absorb trace elements such as cobalt, copper, molybdenum, nickel, platin, rare earth elements and zinc from the water through as-yet unknown processes. In the case of Ita Mai Tai these crusts have been found all over the seamount and