Mai Tai 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 1944 at his restaurant, Trader Vic's, in Oakland, California. Trader Vic's rival, Don the Beachcomber, claimed to have created it in 1933 at his then-new bar named for himself (later a famous restaurant) in Hollywood. Don the Beachcomber's recipe is more complex than that of Vic's and tastes quite different. The name was allegedly taken from "maita'i", the Tahitian word for "good" or "excellence", although the drink
Ita Mai Tai cephalopods including belemnites have been found. During the Eocene to Quaternary, foraminiferal ooze accumulated on the guyot at a rate of but with occasional erosional periods which show up as hiatuses in the sedimentary record, the ooze also contains fish teeth and radiolarian fossils. This sediment layer is unusually thick by the standard of other Pacific Ocean seamounts, its thickness reaching -. Presently, scleractinian corals without zooxanthelles form "meadows" and "patches" on the surface of Ita Mai Tai. Ita Mai Tai Ita Mai Tai is a Cretaceous-early Cenozoic seamount northwest of the Marshall Islands and north of Micronesia. One among