Comments on: Hula Hula, New Tiki Bar in Seattle

By: Bop

Bop — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 23:04:56 +0000

We LOVE this place. I grew up in Seattle but have been away my entire adult life. My fiancee had a conference and I jumped at the chance to accompany him. We happened upon this quite by accident and loved it. Now, it’s a must see on every visit. The drinks pack a punch. The appetizers are way over priced. I think chips and salsa were $8 but it was almost forgivable because the drinks are so good. Not a fan of karaoke though so we make our exit for the evening way too early.

By: Stanton Gene Kawaihinano Otero

Stanton Gene Kawaihinano Otero — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:36:01 +0000

Dear HumuHumu,

I was born and raised in Hawai’i, and I am Native Hawaiian by my ethinic blood line and cultural upbringing. I live in Seattle Washington with my wife (both of us having attended state university here), and I must say, from a Native Son of Hawai’i Nei, “Hula Hula”, like ALL Tiki Bars, is offensive…period. “Tiki Culture” is something that is perpetuated by an extremely ugly (and quite frankly, very outdated) colonialist mind set. It is nothing more then Polynesian–Pacific Islander “Black Face” on parade for those people who are not of Polynesian–Pacific Islander decent to exploit, and enjoy, and marvel in they’re inability to
have anything of any cultural signifigance for themselves to exploit, and therefore run amok with appropriating other peoples culture and making it into an obscene novelty, consuming as you say (“I am an avid tiki consumer”), so very unaware of your own colonialist — emperialistic mindset that you go so far as to appropriate and bastardize the Hawaiian name of my people’s state fish (the Humuhumunukunukuapua’a), into a nickname for yourself, “HumuHumu”

Wow…very obscene and offensive.

You can write, and articulate, and appear to possess some degree of analytical and critical thinking…may I suggest you look into the actual cultural and religious history of Tiki’s,…a good place to referrence a comparison that is probably familiar to you, would be Indiginous Native American / 1st Nations People’s and the religious and cultural signifigance with Totem Poles.

Aloha No HumuHumu,

Stanton Gene Kawaihinano Otero

By: Humu Kon Tiki » Blog Archive » Color Me Pleased

Humu Kon Tiki » Blog Archive » Color Me Pleased — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:43:09 +0000

[...] My hopes for Hula Hula were not high, but I’m so happy to hear that the local Seattle tikiphiles have made a couple visits to Hula Hula, and they like the place a lot. It sounds like some changes are coming to the drink recipes, and it looks like the place is darker and moodier than the Hula Hula website would suggest — and you regular readers know what a sucker I am for a dark bar. The music selections still sound incongruous to the decor, but as mentioned earlier, booking Lushy to play a show there is a huge step in the right direction. [...]

By: dogbytes

dogbytes — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:06:06 +0000

we’ve been to Hula Hula twice now, and its a wonderful space ~ and yeah, we can gripe about the music, but really, its non intrusive, and more often than not, a funky song catches your ear, and we sing along … and, i’m partial to 80′s R&B…

i’ve posted on Tiki Central ~ Hula Hula Happy Hour, Third Thursdays after work, hope to see you there!

By: Humu Kon Tiki » Blog Archive » Seattle: Lushy at Hula Hula

Humu Kon Tiki » Blog Archive » Seattle: Lushy at Hula Hula — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:23:54 +0000

[...] Lushy, a darling bossa/exotica, loungey-but-dancey band based out of Seattle, is playing a show at Hula Hula on Wednesday, February 7. Lushy sounds so good in nice, intimate spaces, and Hula Hula’s space is probably just about perfect for them. It’s a great opportunity to give Hula Hula a whirl — early reports are that Hula Hula is a neat space, but that the modern/rock music played there is a mismatch — and my guess is the Lushy will give the place the mojo it may be missing. Lushy’s eponymous album [...]

By: Blansten

Blansten — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:30:51 +0000

Yes, those are puffer fish lights! I was in there last week around 6:00 on a weeknight, so it was pretty dead. The music was awful (top 40 R&B circa 1988) and most of the light was coming from the TV. Even so, the general visual ambience of the place was outstanding, the TV was at least showing a surfing show (maybe just a coincidence) and the drinks and food were tasty if not strictly authentic. Big ups for serving them in kooky mugs (soon liable to be stolen). Spoke with the bartender and he told me the whole place was still evolving, so I’ll be back.

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:55:47 +0000

As an avid tiki consumer, I form opinions, and I share my opinions. It’s my schtick, it’s what I do — and I’ve got a pretty darned good record of being supportive of new tiki bars. I was pretty clear in my post that I haven’t been to the place, and the opinion I’m sharing here is that I’m just not excited about checking it out. What, I’m supposed to lie and say it looks great, just because it’s a tiki bar?

By: elbow room

elbow room — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:39:40 +0000

I can’t believe anyone would write a review of a place they have never been. That is like buying a used car without ever seeing it.

No wonder no one wants to open a tiki bar in seattle

You should try it.
SP
Bartender

By: Swanky

Swanky — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:06:09 +0000

I am wondering if those are my puffer fish in there, or maybe Thatch. I shipped 8-10 large ones up to the Seattle area last year to a guy who was re-selling them. I may just have to get up there and investigate in person!