PHOTOS: The Tiki Bungalow is Back
By Noelle Mateer
The Tiki Bungalow has risen from the dead like a potent, delicious Zombie (which is an actual drink they sell, btw), and better still, on the same 'tong as the old one.
The cult-favorite closed suddenly and tragically this April when dreaded chai-ing swept Beijing this spring (see our report on brickings, here). But Tiki could never really die. In fact, it has never died – this is The Tiki Bungalow’s third location. The first was a tiny two-seater on Dongsi Batiao, when barman Phil Tory was just an untapped encyclopedia of rum knowledge, a dude with a cocktail hobby slinging Mai Tais for friends. But now, Beijing's preeminent retro exotica-themed nautical hutong cocktail bar has returned, and it's just as retro, exotica-themed and nautical as ever.
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The new spot was packed with bros in Hawaiian shirts even on its first night open. (We know what you're thinking, woke Beijingers: isn't 'tiki culture' just a euphemism for outmoded forms of mid-century exoticism? To this we say: No comment.)
The menu is the same, with the addition of skull-shaped glasses the size of a human head. Here's our editor with hers. Dude in the background definitely thinks it’s a real human skull.
Tiki 3.0 is a freaky Tiki. You've been warned, Beijing.
Mon-Sat, 6pm-late, 46 Fangjia Hutong (enter by Peiping Machine Brewing on Jiaodaokou Beisantiao) 方家胡同46号院D座2107-2108(从交道口北三条胡同进)
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