Mai Tai
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Mai Tai
Amber rum float on the lava rock
Recipe
Mai Tai
Serves 1
Ingredients
- 1 oz aged dark rum, for floating
- 1 oz light rum
- ½ oz orange curacao
- ½ oz orgeat (almond syrup)
- ¾ oz fresh lime juice
- Crushed ice
- Mint sprig and an orchid, to garnish
Directions
- Shake the light rum, curacao, orgeat, and lime juice with crushed ice.
- Pour unstrained into a tall glass.
- Float the dark rum gently over the top.
- Garnish with the spent lime shell, mint, and an orchid.
Trader Vic mixed the first one in 1944; a Tahitian friend tasted it and said “Mai tai roa ae” — out of this world.