{"id":26212,"date":"2025-12-03T11:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26212"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:27:46","slug":"desperately-seeking-tiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/desperately-seeking-tiki\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperately Seeking Tiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23f3f3f3&amp;d=december_2025&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=38&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p3\">When winter darkly threatens and even the streetlights flicker out momentarily along Long Sands Beach, tiki isn\u2019t just a novelty, it\u2019s a necessity!<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p4\">By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Intrigued to learn that <strong>Chef Javier<\/strong> of <strong>Lulu\u2019s<\/strong> has been using the <i>trompo<\/i> at the newly restored <strong>Nevada Hotel <\/strong>in York, we pick a rainy Friday night\u2014the surf booming as it breaks against the seawall\u2014to check it out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">We share an order of warm Queen Hawaiian rolls (3) with brandy butter (devoured instantly) and the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>house-made Spam chili with black beans topped with melted cheese\u2014a sweet and spicy hit. We also share a savory fried rice bowl with vegetables and blackened shrimp\u2014four juicy jumbos.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tiki.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tiki.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tiki-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tiki-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Necessity of Tiki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[1503],"class_list":["post-26212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-reviews","tag-december-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26236,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26212\/revisions\/26236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}