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 that the flat summit was a lagoon surrounded by a coral reef, and the volcanic basement forms an uplift in the central section of the flat summit. Volcanic cones form swells on the western part of the summit plateau of Ita Mai Tai, and structures such as domes, ridges, scarps, steps and terraces are dispersed all over the seamount. The seamount is about high and reaches a depth of below sea level. On the seafloor, it occupies a surface of , making it much larger than other Pacific seamounts, and is surrounded by a shallow moat on the northern and