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Kelly Hiphipahula'sTonga Hut Parties 2009-2012 Farewell pg.42 |
Murph
Grand Member (4 years) 
Joined: Jul 11, 2006
Posts: 673
From: SoCal
|  Posted: 2012-01-20 12:54 pm Permalink
Kelly, Good Luck and smooth sailing to everything that lies ahead of you!
Thanks for some truly memorable drinks and times at the Tonga Hut.
And remember you will always be THE Bartender at the Waikiki Womb.
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Trailerpark Tiki
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Joined: Mar 27, 2010
Posts: 321
From: Las Vegas
| Posted: 2012-01-20 3:14 pm Permalink
Good luck Kelly. We hope to see you at Mojave Oasis! Aloha and Mahalo.
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JOHN-O
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: May 16, 2008
Posts: 2460
From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2012-01-20 3:38 pm Permalink
Kelly, Tonga Hut Sundays won't be the same without you behind the bar. 
I wish you good luck and great success on the next phase of your Tiki career. I guess I'll have to make the trek out to Rumpus Room more regularly to get my fix of your original Tropical concoctions.
You know during all those times at the TH, I think I only made it through 3 drinks on the Grog Log. It was almost always a KELLY drink for me !! You definitely raised the bar for both mixology and the general So Cal Tiki Revival over the last several years, and helped put the Tonga Hut on the Tiki destination map. Thank you. 
Hope to see you soon !!
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Big Kahuna
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Joined: Apr 11, 2007
Posts: 1908
From: SoMass
| Posted: 2012-01-20 3:59 pm Permalink
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Where ya goin? Kowloon could use you!
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Brenda's Tiki Hut
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Joined: May 02, 2006
Posts: 342
From: Sacramento
| Posted: 2012-01-20 4:39 pm Permalink
Bon Voyage, Kelly! I'm sure you will rock it on your next voyage. I don't get to Tonga Hut often, but, when I do, I always love your cocktails. Thanks for being a great bartender and my friend.
Brenda
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heylownine
Grand Member (first year)
Joined: Oct 05, 2008
Posts: 476
From: Agoura Hills, CA
| Posted: 2012-01-20 7:46 pm Permalink
Kelly,
Val and I wish you nothing but the best in your next adventures. Your cocktails and your company behind the bar were outstanding. I only wish we'd strayed a bit from the Grog Log and had a few more Shaka Hula Bossa Novas and Rum Barrels.
Mahalo, and hope to see you soon.
Kevin
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TikiG
Grand Member (2 years) 
Joined: Jun 17, 2008
Posts: 1519
From: Palmdale, California
| Posted: 2012-01-21 1:04 pm Permalink
Kelly -
Thank You for my happy times at the Tonga Hut, you are simply the most gracious host a patron could ever hope to meet and the delicious beverages you are known for are legendary in my book, you know?
I'm honored and proud to say I count you among my close friends and the times we've shared together shall be eclipsed only by the times we'll share in the future...
Stay true to your path and I'll see you along the road to life's ultimate destination unknown again sometime.
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Capt. R.H. Falernum
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Joined: Mar 05, 2009
Posts: 236
From: Mar Vista (Los Angeles), CA
| Posted: 2012-01-24 08:52 am Permalink
Kelly:
It's such terrible news to learn that you've gone. How spoiled I was to have one of the tiki community's best bartenders working in my favorite tiki bar. As someone that has seen the Tonga Hut in a multitude of incarnations, I can say without a doubt that the best drinking I've ever done there has been under your watch.
Moreover, it's been great to see how your drinks brought the Hut to the attention of notable cocktail enthusiasts -- even outside of the tiki community!
Your work is greatly appreciated by those that have benefited from your expertise, refined palette and dedication to returning classic tiki drinks to their roots while also ushering in the new era of tiki & exotic cocktails.
I look forward to where you go from here!
Eternal cheers & mahaloz!
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geedavee
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 22, 2007
Posts: 191
From: South Pasadena, CA
| Posted: 2012-01-24 11:04 am Permalink
Good luck in your future endeavors, and I will see you at the Rumpus Room.
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Tangaroa-Ru
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 04, 2006
Posts: 377
From: Surf's Up, Los Angeles!
| Posted: 2012-01-27 7:38 pm Permalink
Well, if this isn't a bad pupu platter of news... for selfish reasons, anyway. Kelly, I loved seeing you at the Tonga Hut and enjoying your magnificent cocktail creations. You are truly a culinary artist, and a great friend to so many. Where oh where am I going to get another Rum Barrel as good as the one you make?! Smuggler's Cove isn't an easy after-work commute for me! Okay, enough whining. Mainly, I want to wish you happy adventures ahead, and thank you for all you brought to the Tonga Hut, as well as many Tiki events and parties. Will we be seeing you soon someplace else? Really, we need to know. You better the hell keep in touch. And I mean that with sincere aloha.
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Kahuna Kent
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 19, 2007
Posts: 78
From: Woodland Hills, Ca
| Posted: 2012-02-08 3:42 pm Permalink
I'm gonna miss your Shakahulabassanova's at TH, Kelly!
Best of luck in the next round of your mixocological odyssey!
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