And shisha? I know it smells lovely and I smoked it a few times in college. The only flavor that I ever tried was mango, and I mostly went to the hookah cafés because I liked the hummus.
So what in the world is my hookah-knowledge-deficient-hiney doing here? Well, I’m here to learn, and hopefully you are, too. Not everyone who visits Hookah-Shisha.com is a connoisseur of the hobby, and we want this to be a place where both the hookah-curious and the well-versed professionals are welcomed. If you’re looking to learn from the ground up (like me!), or if you just want to brush up your knowledge, then stick with me, kid. We’ll learn together and become a part of the vastly expanding hookah community.
I am serious when I say ‘community’, there are customs, traditions, history, and etiquette involved. The hookah experience often goes well beyond a casual hobby. But before we get to all of that, maybe my hookah-saavy friends out there can help me answer the biggest question of all…where to start?
If you’re new to the world of hookahs or are visiting our site for the first time, you may or may not be familiar with Khalil Mamoon Hookahs. These hookahs are probably the most discussed hookahs on any kind of hookah related internet forum, and proud owners will always tell you about their exceptional air-flow, quality stems, and beautiful aesthetics. We’re happy to say that we’ve just restocked many of the most popular KM hookahs sold in our store!
We’ll be getting more Khalil Mamoon hookahs all this summer, so be sure to follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook to get instant updates! Happy Smooking!
Howdy Hookah Friends! First off we’d like to thank each and every one of you that posted a review video for our 60 Second Video Review Contest. We were blown away by the effort that many of you put into your videos! The submitters got one entry per video for a chance to win the last remaining 7 foot tall Sultan Hookah. One lucky person was *literally* picked out of a hat! Check out the video below to see the drawing in action!
Congratulations! And here’s one of Vicken’s reviews, one for Coco Nara Hookah Charcoals. Apparently they last so long, you’ll grow a beard before they go out! Thanks Vicken, enjoy your Sultan Hookah!
Again, thanks to everyone that participated! We’ll be holding more contests in the near future, so like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to get updates! Happy Smoking!
Ever the innovators of what’s hot in the hookah world, the folks at Starbuzz Hookah Tobacco continue to produce the tastiest and, consequentially, the most requested shisha tobacco flavors in our store. Since the introduction of the first few flavors of Starbuzz Bold Hookah Tobacco, they’ve had fans eagerly anticipating the arrival of those black tins which are intermittently released to market. Here we introduce the newest 100g flavor troika that will fill your hookah bowl with epicness!
Purple Savior – In this savory selection you’ll find salvation from stodgy smoke, a symptom of substandard shisha. This bold flavor with a fire breathing dragon on its label will stimulate your salivary glands by its smell alone! Purple savior is a grape soda taste with a “fizzy” sapor that smokes smoothly and succulently seduces your senses.
Watermelon Freeze – You’ll freeze in your tracks in awe once you get a whiff of the minty, watermelon-y goodness! Starbuzz takes the popular combination of sweet watermelon and spicy mint and perfectly fuses them to form the foremost front runner for the “Best Melon Mint Flavor” award. It’s cooling, it’s refreshing, it produces smoke clouds so thick they’ll have to close the local schools due to fog!
Irish Peach – This juicy peach flavor is mint-less and is a great compliment to a glass of Jameson’s (if you’re old enough to drink legally, of course). You don’t have to Irish to be lucky enough to have the titillating taste of peach bubblegum dance a jig on your taste buds. Erin go Bragh!
Howdy Friends, we’re featuring the famous Rotating Hookahs this week, and we’ve also added the option to choose your hookah hose! All the way from Egypt, these cloud machines spin a full 360 degrees for the ultimate ease in hose passing.
Having a party? There’s a reason that rotating hookahs are popular in hookah lounges, mainly because they’re less likely to tip over. A rotating hookah in the middle of a circle of people is ideal, both because of the ease of passing the hose but also because it’s less likely for a newcomer that’s not aware of hookah etiquette to cause an unfortunate tip-over.
Our rotating hookahs are available select colors of glass bases and have the option of 1 to 4 hoses (6 in the case of the Super Nova Hookah).
Because of the hand-made nature of rotating hookahs, it can sometimes be a little tricky to set up and smoking for the first time. If you experience any difficulty in any way with your rotating hookah, please visit the below pages for set up instructions or troubleshooting guides:
Birquq, which is pronounced “bher-KOOK” and is the phonetic spelling of the Arabic word for “plum” (برقوق), is the newest line of full-bodied hookah tobacco from Tangiers. These flavors require less acclimation than the regular “Noir” line, and also require less heat to get a great smoke – If you’re a regular Tangiers smoker, you would only need to use 3/4 of the coals you would normally use for Birquq. Since we released these flavors in our store a couple weeks ago, the rave reviews have started to come in! Here we present the 5 newest flavors of Tangiers Birquq Hookah Tobacco:
Little Purple Candy - A tangy grape flavor that’s tart on the tongue and will have your taste buds tap dancing. The type of purple confectionery that this flavor is emulating has been identified as both the grape flavored variety of a boxed pebbly “nerdy” candy and a popular candy that’s dispensed from the neck of a cartoon character.
Ololiuqui – This unique flavor is pronounced “oh-loh-lee-OO-kee” and is the Nhuatal name for the Christmas Vine, a species of Morning Glory native to Mexico and Latin America. Fans of this flavor describe a distinct root beer taste with a creamy, vanilla soda undertone and a slight mint tingle on the exhale.
Rangoon Sunrise – This flavor has nothing to do with Rangoon, the former name of the capital of Burma. The consensus on the taste of Rangoon Sunrise is that of a popular chewing gum that comes in a yellow wrapper. The taste, the taste, the taste is gonna move ya!
Soursop - Believe it or not soursop isn’t just a made up word, it’s an actual fruit of a small West India tree. It’s also known as a Guanabana, which is a flavor in the original Tangiers “Noir” line. This is a “revamped” version of Guanabana, which despite the apparent portmanteau is not a combination of guava and banana – it’s pear and apple with a hint of cherry.
White Summer Mixed Fruit - Tangiers has produced another fantastic mixed fruit flavor, and this one had been compared to the Original “Summer Solstice” flavor with more of a guava heaviness to it.
Edit 4/24/12 – Our 12th birthday sale has come to a close, sorry. Thanks for all the well-wishes, and keep an eye out for more sales and promotions in the near future! Happy Smoking!
Howdy Hookah Friends, and happy birthday to us! On this very week 12 years ago an enterprising young fellow sold his first hookah online out of his college dorm room, and today Hookah-Shisha.com has grown to be the largest online retailer of hookah and shisha products in the world! And, of course, we couldn’t have done it without YOU, our fans and supporters!
To celebrate, and as a ‘thank you’ to you all, you can take 12% off of anything in our store for the next week, including items already marked down, clearance items, and tobacco and coal super packs! During the checkout process, simply enter the following code:
Birthday12Off
As always, make sure that you click the “apply discount” button after entering the coupon code and verify that your order total reflects the discount before continuing with the checkout process!
Super-Duper Awesome Birthday Hookah Packages!
We’ve put together some great hookah packages that include popular hookah accessories, including a phunnel hookah bowl and smoke cooling hose attachments like the Mystique Ice Hose Tip and the Soguk Cooling Hookah Hose Attachment. These packages are marked down 15 % to 20% off of the retail price, and yes you can use the 12% off birthday coupon on top of that for even more savings!
Birthday T-Shirt Specials! 50% Off Hookah-Shisha.com Shirts
In addition, all of our Hookah-Shisha.com t-shirts are marked down to 50% off, and you can also apply the 12% off coupon as well! Show off your hookah love with these shirts that are available in a myriad of colors and sizes
Thanks again to all of our fans, loyal customers, Twitter followers, and Facebook fans for another awesome year! Cheers!
*These birthday promotions will end at the end of the day on Monday, April 23rd. The 12% off coupon cannot be combined with any other discount codes, sorry.
Howdy hookah friends! We thought we would do something a little different and have a contest that allows you a chance to win the ultimate hookah package. This contest is going to be a bit different than previous contests, as the winner will be chosen completely at random from all contest entries. To enter the contest, you just need to post a video review on our site between now and May 7th, 2012. There are a few rules, however:
1) You may review any product on our site, no need to focus on just shisha or just hookahs. All of our products have the option to add video reviews, so go nuts!
2) Your video review can be no longer than 60 seconds, including the intro and outro. This is important – the idea is to provide quick but helpful reviews so that people can watch them in a hurry and move on with their day. Any video reviews over 60 seconds will not be posted on the website and will not be considered entries for this contest.
3) All video reviews must contain the “official” Hookah-Shisha.com intro and outro provided below.
4) When posting your review on YouTube, entries should mention “Hookah-Shisha.com 60 second video review” in the description. This is kind of important, as we want to make it easier for people to find all these reviews in the future. You must post a link to the review on the page of the product you’re reviewing on our website.
5) Each 60 second video review earns the reviewer an entry in the drawing, so please feel free to post more than one review.
6) Reviews in languages other than English are welcome. Hookah enthusiasts speak all languages, so feel free to use your native tongue.
7) You must be over the age of 18 to enter.
Most of all, have fun with this contest! We reserve the right to award extra entries for video reviews that are awesome in some way.
What do you win for all this hard work, you might ask? Well, I hope you are sitting down, ’cause we dug up the last of our Sultan hookahs and will be shipping it to one VERY lucky video reviewer. The Sultan Hookah towers over you at nearly 7 feet tall and is guaranteed to make you the coolest hookah smoker in your town. This is very possibly the last Sultan hookah that we will ever have, so it is a very special prize. Unfortunately we are unable to ship the Sultan to locations outside of the United States due to its size, but if one of our international reviewers wins the contest, we will find you an awesome prize, I promise.
This could be you standing next to your new sultan hookah!
The Mya Saray Company has been around for over 40 years and originally made bohemian crystal ware such as chandeliers and vases, to name a few. They’re now known for producing some of the most sought-after and elegant hookah pipes in the world! From the smallest Mya Petite Hookah to the towering Mya Colossus Hookah, and even hookahs with bohemian crystal bases such as the Crystal Mya Hookahs, known as the “Rolls Royce of Hookahs.”
Several years ago they launched a new line of hookahs they dubbed the “Econo” line, which are hookahs produced with more cost-effective manufacturing techniques. The stem is composed of sturdy aluminum as opposed to steel, and the glass is made in China instead of Europe. The quality is the same, and they are compatible with all other Mya components such as hose adapters and downstems. The newest Econo Mya hookah to hit our shelves is the Mya Acrylic II Hookah. This is the first Econo Mya Hookah with an acrylic base, which is less prone to breakages were it to be accidentally dropped, and without any grommet to fiddle with, ensures an air tight seal every time you smoke!
Another popular Mya Hookah with an acrylic base is one we’ve affectionately dubbed the Mya “Artoo” Hookah because we once carried a companion hookah in gold that we called the “Threepio,” which is sadly sold out. These ARE the droids you’re looking for!
Howdy friends, we’re happy to add a new item to our ever-expanding selection of hookah bowls – From the makers of the original Vortex Hookah Bowl comes the Pyrex Vortex Hookah Bowl, a bowl that not only retains the shisha juice with its famous Vortex technology but lengthens the hookah smoking session!
What sets this hookah bowl apart is that it’s composed of borosilicate glass, also known as Pyrex. This sturdy material has a low thermal expansion rate compared to plain glass, which means it’s less resistant to heat, thus ensuring your shisha remains a relatively steady temperature throughout the duration of the bowl.
The Pyrex Vortex Bowls are available in both a blue and black color. As with the original vortex bowl, you’ll want to use a thick bowl grommet (such as a Mod Bowl Grommet) to get it to fit securely on your bowl stem. Happy Smoking!
Most of all, have fun with this contest! We reserve the right to award extra entries for video reviews that are awesome in some way.
This could be you standing next to your new sultan hookah!
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