Welcome back to day 3 of our Disney dining extravaganza! Another day another cancelled breakfast ADR, this time it was Boma, apparently I am no longer a morning person LOL.
Anyway, today we find ourselves at Disney's Animal Kingdom on a nearly perfect day, cool temps, manageable crowds (literally walked onto EE.....TWICE......through the stand-by line!!), who could ask for anything more....... well yeah, we can ask for food! We decided that we would have lunch at Flame Tree BBQ.
Luanne ordered the:
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Ribs and Chicken Combo served with baked beans and coleslaw
She really enjoyed this, said the ribs had great flavor and the chicken was moist and flavorful.
I ordered:
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1/2 Slab of St. Louis Ribs - served with baked beans and coleslaw and a side of onion rings.
I like my ribs on the firmer side rather than falling off the bone and these were perfect, great smoky flavor and the BBQ sauce I got from the condiment counter had just the right tang. The coleslaw was the creamy kind wich I prefer, other than that it was just coleslaw. I know many people don't seem to like the beans but I do, great flavor with shreds of meat. The onion rings were well cooked and tasted good.
Now, to answer my question from the previous post, yes, I did remember to take a picture of my mickey bar, however I didn't take it LOL. Luanne had wandered off somewhere when I bought my mickey bar so I was by myself. I had forgotten to change back to my smaller camera lens after riding the safari ride so there I was, holding an unwrapped mickey bar in one hand with no one to hold it and no place to set it down while I changed lenses, I tried to take a picture. but my arms were just not long enough to hold the mickey bar far enough away to get it in focus. Now I had to ask myself, should I find someplace to set the bar down and change lenses or should I just eat it........ I ate it.
So now were are walking towards EE and were passing by Yak and Yeti Counter Service and we remembered all the rave reviews for the pork egg rolls so we got these little beauties:
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These were every bit as good as people say. Many egg rolls have to much cabbage that overwhelms the pork, but these were perfect!
AK was open until 7 so we stayed and then decided to stop at the Contemporary Resort for dinner and watch Wishes from the balcony. We went to the Contemo Cafe and Luanne ordered:
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Marinated Beef Flatbread - with oven roasted tomatoes, garlic, onions, arugula, and goat cheese
She loves this and orders it everytime, I try a piece everytime and am never that impressed LOL You will have to try it yourself.
I ordered:
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Chicken Caesar - with garlic croutons
This was a nice salad, the lettuce was fresh and crisp and nice big chucks of chicken, however be careful, I found 2 small bones. The only draw back was that while the croutons had a great flavor, they were more dust than croutons.
We both also ordered:
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Pasta with Chicken Basil Creme Sauce
We both liked this, although I would have preferred a bit more sauce it still had lots of flavor and the pasta was cooked perfect and this also had large chunks of chicken.
I also ordered one of these to take back to the condo:
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Chocolate cupcake with mint frosting from Contempo Cafe.
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Cross-section of cupcake.
Contempo seems to have an ever changing series of cupcakes and this was the newest one I had seen. I don't know whether they will be offering it all through the Christmas season or not. The frosting is a light green and thats where all the mint flavor was, just enough and not to strong, the frosting itself was heavier than a whipped cream but not quite as heavy as a butter cream. The cake itself was moist and chocolatey and as you can see by the cross-section has a liquidy fudgy center. I liked this cupcake alot.
I almost forgot, while at AK Luanne got a Cotton Top Tamarin Cupcake to go from one of the food carts. I didn't get a picture of the cupcake, but below is a picture of the white chocolate/dark chocolate lollipop that tops the cupcake. Luanne said the cupcake was great.
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I hope you are enjoying this culinary trip with us through the gastronomical delight that is Disney Dining.
Tomorrow we will explore a lunch at BOG and find out if Cookes of Dublin can redeem themselves (I will explain that tomorrow).
Until then..