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I guess it's a little strange to start a blog on Disney World with food, but we had a package deal that included meals (1 breakfast, 1 quick service,1 sit-down dining, and 2 snacks a day), so food was a BIG part of our Disney experience. You do have to pay additional 18% tips on the meals, which can be quite a hit on the pocket, as the restaurants are very pricey, so the tips came out to be quite a lot.
After this experience, I think I would at most do the 2 quick-service meal plan and pay to go to a few select good restaurants. This is because our schedule was quite restricted by our restaurant reservations - all the fine dining restaurants are very popular and fully booked, so we had to have advance reservations and can't just show up at a restaurant. Therefore we had to plan our activities around those dining reservations and often cut short our plans in order to not miss the reservation.
As my child said, everything's "Mickefied" - those crackers are shaped like Mickey.
These Zebra Domes are Kahlua-laced coffee mousse robed in white chocolate, with a thing layer of sponge cake to hold it all up - delish! The recipe is available at: http://allears.net/din/recipes/rec_zebra.htm. The domes can be found at Animal Kingdom Lodge eateries.
Lunch at Animal Kingdom Lodge - the African stew was very good.
Desserts included with quick service and sit-down meals. Tons of food with the meal plan.
Gourmet cupcakes are so popular now.
In Magic Kingdom.
Kids line up to get autographs from all the characters.
Mid-day parade.
Groups of young rich Brazilian kids on a teens-only tour group.
This is a psycho egret. Other egrets gather by the river eating fish. This one wanders in the MK park looking for little birds to eat! After catching a bird, it would fly to the most crowded place and eat the bird in plain view, traumatizing the young ones who make up most of MK's visitors.
Lunch at San Angel at Epcot - Mexican food.
Churros with hot chooclate
Mexican flan.
Desserts at dinner buffet at Boma in Animal Kingdom Lodge.
Those two kids are real - they're so cute.
At an Irish restaurant - Raglan Road - soda bread with sweet reduced beer dipping sauce.
Raglan Road served the most so-so food during our whole Disney trip.
Grilled salmon - okay, but nothing special.
Raglan Road is famous for this Bread Pudding dessert with two kinds of sauce - butterscotch and vanilla. Only the sauce was good, the pudding was too mushy.
Shepherd's Pie - looks good but I can make better - the meat was really salty.
Apple crumble.
Outside Le Cellier Steakhouse in Epcot
The warm salad at Le Cellier Steakhouse at Epcot, served in a little skillet. The warm dressing was to die for!
Le Cellier's Steakhouse - best burger in the world! My most memorable food at Disney - believe it or not. A good deal for lunch, big enough to serve two people. Drooling just thinking about this burger, and I never order burgers, but took the suggestion of the helpful waiter and he was right on with all his recommendations. Le Cellier's was the best restaurant we ate at in Disney and had the best service.
Epcot Center - Living with the Land attraction - consists of a boat ride through a huge greenhouse growing amazing fruits, veggies, fish, that they serve in the restaurants. They also do research work.
Banana trees.
Huge white melons.
Brussel sprouts, in case you're wondering.
We stayed at Disney's Port Orleans - French Quarter Resort. It's a small resort, so all rooms are close to the bus stop, pool, and cafeteria.
French Quarter's New Orleans style hotel rooms.
This is Riverside's boat ride to Downtown Disney.
Riverside's hotel rooms - a nicer one, the rest don't look as nice.
The walk between the two resorts.
Dragon slide at French Quarter's pool.
Mickey waffles.
Port Orleans Resort also has convenient boat rides to Downtown Disney.
View when approaching Downtown. The blue globe is Planet Hollywood restaurant.
Restaurant in Downtown featuring dinosaurs.
MGM Studio
The magician's hat is the center of the park. Each park has a central landmark for easier navigation.
Tower of Terror ride - my child's cap flew off during this ride.
This is an indoor ride that has upside down loops.
Walt Disney and Mickey.
Epcot Center at night.
This was at the Italian restaurant in Epcot - Tutto Italia - food was good there.
Quite a few days, there will be an airplane making Christian messages in the sky above Disney.
Five ducks sitting in a row.
Huge turkey legs - never tried one myself, but heard it's good.
The central landmark for Animal Kingdom - Tree of Life.
Waiting line goes through a mini museum/exhibit - which also serves to cool you off in the summer heat.
Line for Mt. Everest ride goes thru Himalayan scene.
