Named after the classic Chinese game, this Chinese bar and restaurant embraced the Poly Pop craze at the height of its popularity like many others and fully transformed itself into a Tiki destination.

Active throughout the 60s and 70s.

The Shameful Tiki Room Toronto originally opened in 2015 at 1378 Queen Street West.

Their final night there was May 27th, 2025.

They re-opened here, just down the road, at 777 Queen Street West on June 9th, 2025.

There were at least two locations under this name. This one, owned by James and Robert Lee, was located on Winter Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, next to a cinema, and lasted roughly from 1975 - 1990.

It could be found taking exit 48 off Route 128.

They advertised Chinese and Polynesian food and cocktails (in a separate cocktail lounge with dress code).

This space apparently later housed The Winter Street Cafe, which changed its name to Sato and closed in 2015. Umi opened at this location later that summer and is still in business as of 2025.

Exiting 34 off of Route 128 would take you to the second Lanai Island location at 147 Lowell in Wakefield -- which advertised outdoor dining as a unique feature.

The Kon Tiki restaurant in the convention center Norway Trade Fairs was the country's first exotic - or overall "foreign" restaurant - and made quite a colourful splash in the bleak, still rather poor post-war country. The Kon Tiki museum had just opened in the same area of Oslo and Thor Heyerdahl had generously given his blessing to use the name on the new eatery.

The design for the interior was done by Erik Hesselberg, artist, navigator and crew member on the expedition. Hesselberg was the one that had created the famous mask for the big sail on the raft and thus created one of Tiki's most famous logos.

The walls were covered in bamboo. There were peacock chairs by every table. A palm was brought into the room and an artificial stream ran through it. Adjacent to the restaurant there was the Safari Bar, serving cocktails in "an African environment".

The menu consisted of rather traditional Norwegian plates, spiffed up with exotic juices and tastes: Duck marinated roasted in peanut oil with plum sauce. Flounder served with grapes, bananas, oranges, and pineapple.

Norway had not seen anything quite like it. "The Kon Tiki is alone worth the whole convention center", Aftenposten wrote the day after the opening.

It lasted until around 1970, when the bar sort of devoured the restaurant and turned into a disco called the Safari Club. Some of the original interior was kept, but all was lost during a fire in 1984.

Built in 1965 as the Halemaki Apartments with 127 units.

There used to be a lot more color and details as can be seen in the first photo below (redwood color with what look to be PNG inspired designs).

The units are now condos and have been re-named "Point Loma Villas".

The basic A-frame architecture survives, as does the unique indoor/outdoor pool, and even some of the original (or at least period) rattan furniture.

Le Mon-Tiki was a club attached to a restaurant called Salle à Manger Tropicana.

Lots of interesting rock-work on the walls, especially around the interior front entrance.

According to postcards, it appears to have been open as early as 1960.

Same logo tiki as used by the Marie Antoinette Restaurant & Tahiti Bar.

No trace remains today.

This was perhaps one of the biggest pre-tiki locations on the West Coast.

The location has a long history, but its pre-tiki history began in 1933 with its first incarnation as Club Kamokila.

Club Kamokila was located at 960 Bush St., in San Francisco. Founded in 1933 by pineapple heiress Alice Kamokila Campbell, it was originally called Kamokila's Temple to Art. The temple was the auditorium, as the building was a former church that became a speakeasy. Legal issues arose after the club was raided for unlawful liquor sales, and Campbell closed the club in April of 1934, & moved back to Hawaii. It was then taken over by Kamehameha Corporation, and renamed the Royal Hawaiian.

The Kamokila mascot was a pineapple wearing a top hat and monocle (very similar to the Planter's Peanuts mascot from a distance) and the pineapple mascot was kept for the new location for a time as well.

At some point, this location was connected to the Hawaiian Gardens in San Jose, which was considered for a time to be a sister location.

Closed and then re-opened in 1943 as the Bush Street Music Hall.

Located in the Greenville Shopping Center at 835 Central Park Avenue (Rt. 100), Scarsdale, New York, United States.

Owned by John & Tony Eng.

Appears to have been active in the 70s and according to advertisements, as late as 1980.

This Chinese and Polynesian restaurant had a large bar with a mural of a Chinese junk (ship) on the backbar.

The open dining room was lined with booths and had table seating in the middle with traditional white cloth tablecloths. The dining room also had more murals of island scenes, several different colored fish float lights suspended from the ceiling, thatch, lauhala matting, and fake palm trees. And, a great deal of stonework inside and out.

As of 2025, this location appears to be inhabited by an AT&T store.

Located at Route 3, Service Road East at Plaza Center in Secaucus, New Jersey 07094.

The South Seas was a Chinese & Polynesian fusion restaurant, similar to many others on the East Coast, that owed much of their decor to Orchids of Hawaii -- featuring a plethora of Orchid hanging lamps and a goodly amount of tiki masks both on the interior and exterior. It had a separate bar and a large open dining space lined with bamboo paneled booths lit by different colored puffer fish lamps.

Not much history to be gleaned on this location, but it appears to have been active in the late 60s - early 70s (at least as late as 1974).

Previously the site of Charlie's High Hat Bar/Charlie's Grill and Cocktail bar, built in 1932, which has a convoluted history of murder and suicide (and which you can read about in the Tiki Central thread below).

In 1948, 39-year old Jimmie Kam Sun Lee immigrated to the Daytona Beach area from Hong Kong. He was born in Canton, China. Jimmie Lee opened the doors of the Lotus Restaurant as owner-operator in 1950 at 308 Seabreeze Boulevard, on the ground floor of the building formerly hosting Charlie’s Grill & Hi-Hat Club.

Laney's was upstairs and offered strippers and other entertainment. Laney’s Supper Club continued to operate until 1963.

By 1962 at the Lotus Restaurant, Jimmie Lee was joined or succeeded by Wei Lee. Various members of the Lee family shared responsibilities throughout the years.

The interesting tiki facade of the Lotus Restaurant remains a bit of a mystery. However, another member of the Lee family who worked at the Lotus Restaurant in the late 1950s, the venerable Ho Lum Lee, also known as “Papa” Lee, worked several years as chef at the Hawaiian Inn in Daytona Beach and then moved on to be chef at Tiki Gardens, retiring after 20 years there...

So this might be the missing link to explain the Polynesian/Hawaiian influence.

The Lotus Restaurant continued in business until 1987, when the remaining family operating it acquired and moved on to an existing restaurant in Deland, renaming it the New China Restaurant.

A slew of bars have been at the old Lotus Restaurant location in recent years, including Front Row, The Joint, Moonshiner's Hideaway, and ROK Bar. Current status is uncertain as of 2025.

This short-lived establishment opened in 1975 and closed in 1977. It was a huge venue with lots of Witco decor.

In June 1975, Hawaiian restaurateur Johnny Kao rented the former site of Giant Food at at 3501 S. Jefferson St. in Bailey’s Crossroads/Falls Church and turned it into a Las Vegas styled lounge called the Royal Hawaiian Supper Club. The club opened to much anticipation and fanfare in December 1975 with Patti Page and a comedian named Freddie Roman headlining the first week. The club was beautiful by all accounts and appealed to the over-thirty suburbanites driven from the city by crime and racial tension. In short order the club featured The Platters, Phyllis Diller, Eddie Fisher, The Smothers Brothers, Billy Eckstine, The Supremes (post Diana Ross), and Bobby Rydell. However, the article on the club’s opening night sounded some ominous warnings such as the strange location of this glitzy club in the middle of a suburban shopping mall and, worst of all, on opening night it was only three-fourths full. Patti Page expressed surprise at the club’s location and Roman joked about performing in a shopping center.

By June of 1976, the club ran into financial problems and was sold to new owner named Mike Munley. When Munley bought the Royal Hawaiian, he began to work to change the name of his new restaurant to the Place Where Louie Dwells. While Munley worked on the name change, he expanded the line up with his first act being the country singer Lynn Anderson of “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” fame. In July 1976, one of the last acts to appear at the Royal Hawaiian Supper Club was the Mills Brothers during the week they would entertain the ever-square Gerald Ford at the White House. Munley also inherited a dire financial situation and checks sent to entertainers bounced, which led to a $15,000 lawsuit by singer Jack Albertson. The club featured artists such as the Amazing Kreskin, Brenda Lee, and Sarah Vaughn.

Probably driven by economics more than anything, in October, 1977, the name of the club had become Louie’s Rock Concert City, but it was commonly known as Louie’s Rock City and they began to bring in rock music in the hopes of saving the business.

This tiki club originated in the 70s and lasted into at least the late 80s.

The Mali Kai menu is a good example of Poly Pop's transmission tradition, with its design being based on the famed Ren Clark's Polynesian Village in Fort Worth, TX menu.

Open till at least 1987, according to ads from the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

At some point the Red Carpet Motor Inn became The Henry VIII Inn and Lodge.

The Henry VIII Inn and Lodge remained in business until 2000 when it was removed to expand a runway area for the nearby airport.