VikingInMouseEars
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 3, 2009
Welcome to day 5.
Before I get started I forgot one pic from Day 4. I got a popcorn bucket to take back to the condo, here it is:
IMGP2717 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
Can't beat Disney popcorn.
Ok on to Day 5. We had originally planned to spend the day at DHS, but a benefit of spending 2 weeks here is that we can change things up. We actually did head to DHS, We were running a bit late and were just pulling into the parking lot at 9 and we noticed that one lot was totally full and the next lot was already abut 3/4s full. We had been counting on a low crowd so we decided that we would just take a day off from the parks and rest up. We were wondering what to do about breakfast and realised that we could make up our Trails End breakfast buffet that we had missed earlier in the week, so off we went. Was no trouble getting in and we were immediately shown to a table. Now I bet your asking youself "what could he possibly be talking about when he mentioned a breakfast roll that beats Mainstreet Bakery's cinnimon roll??!!? Well I am talking about this little beauty:
IMGP2720 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
this is a pecan caramel cinnimon roll and it was wonderful. Oowie, goowie awesomeness on a plate, and whats more, you can have as many as you want or can handle.
The next couple of pics are my 2 plates, Luannes were similiar:
IMGP2721 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
IMGP2723 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
The scrambled eggs were decent, maybe slightly over cooked but not bad. The hashbrowns were perfect, not to soft and not to crunchy. The bacon was much better than normal Disney bacon, this was thick and meaty with good flavor. The eggs benedict on the second plate was good, now remember these were sitting on a buffett and yet the egg was perfect! The honeydew was bad, not ripe at all. On both plates you notice biscuits and gravy and sausage likes. First off the biscuits and gravy... the buscuits were very good, firm but soft at the same time and the gravy was very flavorful with chucks of sausage in it. Now I love gravy, on the first plate you see it on the biscuits, eggs and hashbrowns, I have always thought that gravy should be considered as one of the major food groups. The link sausage ohhhhh the link sausage, words fail me, I LOVE Disney link sausage. I can't find sausage like this anywhere at home, I have looked high, I have looked low, I have even looked in the grocery store sausage case, it simply does not exist in my part of the country. As I mentioned at the end of my day 4 post, our server, Donnell, who is a robustly built gentleman like myself, must have became concerned when he saw all the sausage I was putting away so he took it upon himself to mix up a special concoction of fruit juices that he then placed in front of me (I thought I took a picture, but apparently not) saying that it was something he drank and it was good for my heart and proceded to name all the vitimins that it contained including several that I didn't know existed LOL. It was a mix of orange juice, cranberry juice and some other juices that I have forgotten, the color was a purpley lilacy color that I have never seen before. I drank it down and some 12 hours later the sausage has failed to do me in, so it must have worked! Over my 6 or so trips to WDW I have experienced many instances of Disney magic performed by CM, but this is the first time one has taken the time to involve himself in my heart health, so kudos to Donnell.
Back at the condo we took it easy, some naps, some reading, I updated my day 4 food review and the day passed quickly but relaxing. Dinnertime was approaching and we had an ADR for Ohana. We were still full from breakfast, but you have to cancel Ohana 24hrs in advance or suffer the costly penelty. Well we were not looking forward to all that food, but we hopped in the car and off we went wondering how we could possibly do justice to another all you can eat meal......we shouldn't have worried. We checked in and then waited for about 30 minutes before we were seated. We told our seater to skip the bread as we still weren't that hungry. Luanne ordered her standby polmegranate lemonade and I had ice tea. Now we lucked out with our servers, as any of you who have eaten at Ohana know, most of the time the food comes at you fast and furious, but our servers weren't out to win any races, the food came at a steady but fairly sedate pace. To start off with they brought the salad with honey-lime dressing (Luanne loves this and finished off most of the bowl).
IMGP2728 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
Next up was the Pork fried dumplings and Corriander chicken wings. Luanne ate some of the wings, but I don't care fore then, to sweet for my taste. I however ate plenty of the dumplings and asked for more. I know these look dried out and overcooked, but they really aren't. The wrapper can be a little crunchy but I like that and the filling is really good.
IMGP2729 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
This was followed by the broccoli and pad Thai noodles. Luanne enjoyed the broccoli, I didn't have any, I was saving myself for bigger and better things. The pad Thai noodles are good BUT on our very first visit to Ohana they still had the Muai potatos and those were party in your mouth good and the noodles just can't compare.
IMGP2730 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
We noticed on this visit that they are bringing the above items in less quanity than before and thats a great idea since we could rarely eat it all and it seemed very wasteful. Besides if you want more you can just ask.
Dipping sauces for the meats were peanut, chimichurri and sweet-and-sour and all were tasty.
IMGP2731 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
Tonights meats were chicken:
IMGP2732 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
Asian BBQ pork loin:
IMGP2734 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
Steak and shrimp
IMGP2736 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
All the meats were full of flavor and well cooked. Luanne had one piece of steak that was tough, but the rest was perfect.
On to dessert, 'Ohana bread pudding a la mode with Banana Foster sauce, but guess what, yep thats right, as I was pushing away my well scraped bowl I notice my camera giving me a dirty look, uh oh, no picture! I am sorry, but pictures are out there if you really need to see it. Now as to the bread pudding, well there is no way that this can be bread pudding, you see, I don't like bread pudding, so this can't be bread pudding and I don't understand why they would call it that when its not. But I do like like this, I like the ice cream that comes with it and then to top it all off, they slather banana foster sauce all over it, no really, with a bowl of that staring up at me, can I really be blamed for not taking a picture, I mean really??!!
Now as you know if you have read this review from the beginning you are aware that Luanne and I are celebrating our non-married aniversary and I promised to let you know about the celebration desserts many of the TS places bring you. Ohana is one of the restaurants that do this and it is nice little gesture, so they brought us this:
IMGP2737 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
A nice little vanilla cupcake, with white icing and sprinkles. No fancy flavors or fillings. It was moist and tasty and was about 1/3 the size of a normal disney cupcake, so we could actually eat it after all the food we had just put away.
Thats it for Day 5
What will tommorow bring, no idea, really I don't know, we have no ADRs so we will eat CS when we are hungry and then I will tell you all about it.
Till then...
Before I get started I forgot one pic from Day 4. I got a popcorn bucket to take back to the condo, here it is:
IMGP2717 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
Can't beat Disney popcorn.
Ok on to Day 5. We had originally planned to spend the day at DHS, but a benefit of spending 2 weeks here is that we can change things up. We actually did head to DHS, We were running a bit late and were just pulling into the parking lot at 9 and we noticed that one lot was totally full and the next lot was already abut 3/4s full. We had been counting on a low crowd so we decided that we would just take a day off from the parks and rest up. We were wondering what to do about breakfast and realised that we could make up our Trails End breakfast buffet that we had missed earlier in the week, so off we went. Was no trouble getting in and we were immediately shown to a table. Now I bet your asking youself "what could he possibly be talking about when he mentioned a breakfast roll that beats Mainstreet Bakery's cinnimon roll??!!? Well I am talking about this little beauty:
IMGP2720 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
this is a pecan caramel cinnimon roll and it was wonderful. Oowie, goowie awesomeness on a plate, and whats more, you can have as many as you want or can handle.
The next couple of pics are my 2 plates, Luannes were similiar:
IMGP2721 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
IMGP2723 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
The scrambled eggs were decent, maybe slightly over cooked but not bad. The hashbrowns were perfect, not to soft and not to crunchy. The bacon was much better than normal Disney bacon, this was thick and meaty with good flavor. The eggs benedict on the second plate was good, now remember these were sitting on a buffett and yet the egg was perfect! The honeydew was bad, not ripe at all. On both plates you notice biscuits and gravy and sausage likes. First off the biscuits and gravy... the buscuits were very good, firm but soft at the same time and the gravy was very flavorful with chucks of sausage in it. Now I love gravy, on the first plate you see it on the biscuits, eggs and hashbrowns, I have always thought that gravy should be considered as one of the major food groups. The link sausage ohhhhh the link sausage, words fail me, I LOVE Disney link sausage. I can't find sausage like this anywhere at home, I have looked high, I have looked low, I have even looked in the grocery store sausage case, it simply does not exist in my part of the country. As I mentioned at the end of my day 4 post, our server, Donnell, who is a robustly built gentleman like myself, must have became concerned when he saw all the sausage I was putting away so he took it upon himself to mix up a special concoction of fruit juices that he then placed in front of me (I thought I took a picture, but apparently not) saying that it was something he drank and it was good for my heart and proceded to name all the vitimins that it contained including several that I didn't know existed LOL. It was a mix of orange juice, cranberry juice and some other juices that I have forgotten, the color was a purpley lilacy color that I have never seen before. I drank it down and some 12 hours later the sausage has failed to do me in, so it must have worked! Over my 6 or so trips to WDW I have experienced many instances of Disney magic performed by CM, but this is the first time one has taken the time to involve himself in my heart health, so kudos to Donnell.
Back at the condo we took it easy, some naps, some reading, I updated my day 4 food review and the day passed quickly but relaxing. Dinnertime was approaching and we had an ADR for Ohana. We were still full from breakfast, but you have to cancel Ohana 24hrs in advance or suffer the costly penelty. Well we were not looking forward to all that food, but we hopped in the car and off we went wondering how we could possibly do justice to another all you can eat meal......we shouldn't have worried. We checked in and then waited for about 30 minutes before we were seated. We told our seater to skip the bread as we still weren't that hungry. Luanne ordered her standby polmegranate lemonade and I had ice tea. Now we lucked out with our servers, as any of you who have eaten at Ohana know, most of the time the food comes at you fast and furious, but our servers weren't out to win any races, the food came at a steady but fairly sedate pace. To start off with they brought the salad with honey-lime dressing (Luanne loves this and finished off most of the bowl).
IMGP2728 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
Next up was the Pork fried dumplings and Corriander chicken wings. Luanne ate some of the wings, but I don't care fore then, to sweet for my taste. I however ate plenty of the dumplings and asked for more. I know these look dried out and overcooked, but they really aren't. The wrapper can be a little crunchy but I like that and the filling is really good.
IMGP2729 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
This was followed by the broccoli and pad Thai noodles. Luanne enjoyed the broccoli, I didn't have any, I was saving myself for bigger and better things. The pad Thai noodles are good BUT on our very first visit to Ohana they still had the Muai potatos and those were party in your mouth good and the noodles just can't compare.
IMGP2730 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
We noticed on this visit that they are bringing the above items in less quanity than before and thats a great idea since we could rarely eat it all and it seemed very wasteful. Besides if you want more you can just ask.
Dipping sauces for the meats were peanut, chimichurri and sweet-and-sour and all were tasty.
IMGP2731 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
Tonights meats were chicken:
IMGP2732 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
Asian BBQ pork loin:
IMGP2734 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
Steak and shrimp
IMGP2736 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
All the meats were full of flavor and well cooked. Luanne had one piece of steak that was tough, but the rest was perfect.
On to dessert, 'Ohana bread pudding a la mode with Banana Foster sauce, but guess what, yep thats right, as I was pushing away my well scraped bowl I notice my camera giving me a dirty look, uh oh, no picture! I am sorry, but pictures are out there if you really need to see it. Now as to the bread pudding, well there is no way that this can be bread pudding, you see, I don't like bread pudding, so this can't be bread pudding and I don't understand why they would call it that when its not. But I do like like this, I like the ice cream that comes with it and then to top it all off, they slather banana foster sauce all over it, no really, with a bowl of that staring up at me, can I really be blamed for not taking a picture, I mean really??!!
Now as you know if you have read this review from the beginning you are aware that Luanne and I are celebrating our non-married aniversary and I promised to let you know about the celebration desserts many of the TS places bring you. Ohana is one of the restaurants that do this and it is nice little gesture, so they brought us this:
IMGP2737 by VikingInMouseEars, on Flickr
A nice little vanilla cupcake, with white icing and sprinkles. No fancy flavors or fillings. It was moist and tasty and was about 1/3 the size of a normal disney cupcake, so we could actually eat it after all the food we had just put away.
Thats it for Day 5
What will tommorow bring, no idea, really I don't know, we have no ADRs so we will eat CS when we are hungry and then I will tell you all about it.
Till then...