Dreamfinder2
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Just got back from a whirlwind AKL concierge stay on DVC points. Check this out:
(1) Boma, with some picky eaters in tow. DW (likes basic fare and her steaks well done - yack!), DS (19, and in the USMC and a meat-n-taters kinda guy); DD (16, can be adventurous), and DW's aunt (really struggles with anything exotic and not much of a meat eater). And me, who'll eat anything not fastened down. Well, everyone ate themselves into a stupor. Prime rib was appropriatedly rare, the crusted salmon was moist and flavorful, the oxtail soup - more like a beef stew - was heavy with meat and interesting textures; everyone raved about the chicken and corn porridge, jokes about the 3 bears aside; the mango vinegarette dressing for the greens was intriguingly tangy and sweet; don't pass up the watermelon rind salad - pink and crunchy and not at all what you'd expect; what did they marinate the flank steak in? Spicy but not hot, and fork-tender. Zebra domes? Lordy, what can I say that hasn't already been said? Creamy, almost buttery, with high-octane chocolate flavor. We all did just fine.
(2) 'Ohana ... how have we missed this one over the years? If anything, we ate more this time around than at Boma. We decided that it was just the fact that it was all being brought to the table that made it that much tastier. The starters - the salad with a kinda "limey" dressing was fresh and made a nice break in between the meats (more in a moment); the grilled veggies, fried rice, wontons, etc., were all they should've been. The peanut dipping sauce was just super with the steak; the fruit sauce, almost like applesauce, was a great foil for the smoked turkey.
The pork loin was good in the BBQ sauce, and those grilled tiger shrimp - DS ate a pile of those roughly the size of his head - were just spicy enough and great by themselves.
In a recent poll, these two establishments were tops of the respondee's "all you can eat" lists. For me personally, the nod goes to Boma - I'd tried it before, and while the rest of the family had a great time, they just went into holy raptures over 'Ohana, which is most likely gonna be a tradition.
It was all good. And, as a nod to service, our waiter at 'Ohana noticed that our aunt was just barely picking at her meat entrees, and brought out a vegetarian Polynesian noodle dish that put her over the edge. She couldn't stop raving about the dish and the thoughtfulness of our server.
Hungry yet?
(1) Boma, with some picky eaters in tow. DW (likes basic fare and her steaks well done - yack!), DS (19, and in the USMC and a meat-n-taters kinda guy); DD (16, can be adventurous), and DW's aunt (really struggles with anything exotic and not much of a meat eater). And me, who'll eat anything not fastened down. Well, everyone ate themselves into a stupor. Prime rib was appropriatedly rare, the crusted salmon was moist and flavorful, the oxtail soup - more like a beef stew - was heavy with meat and interesting textures; everyone raved about the chicken and corn porridge, jokes about the 3 bears aside; the mango vinegarette dressing for the greens was intriguingly tangy and sweet; don't pass up the watermelon rind salad - pink and crunchy and not at all what you'd expect; what did they marinate the flank steak in? Spicy but not hot, and fork-tender. Zebra domes? Lordy, what can I say that hasn't already been said? Creamy, almost buttery, with high-octane chocolate flavor. We all did just fine.
(2) 'Ohana ... how have we missed this one over the years? If anything, we ate more this time around than at Boma. We decided that it was just the fact that it was all being brought to the table that made it that much tastier. The starters - the salad with a kinda "limey" dressing was fresh and made a nice break in between the meats (more in a moment); the grilled veggies, fried rice, wontons, etc., were all they should've been. The peanut dipping sauce was just super with the steak; the fruit sauce, almost like applesauce, was a great foil for the smoked turkey.
The pork loin was good in the BBQ sauce, and those grilled tiger shrimp - DS ate a pile of those roughly the size of his head - were just spicy enough and great by themselves.
In a recent poll, these two establishments were tops of the respondee's "all you can eat" lists. For me personally, the nod goes to Boma - I'd tried it before, and while the rest of the family had a great time, they just went into holy raptures over 'Ohana, which is most likely gonna be a tradition.
It was all good. And, as a nod to service, our waiter at 'Ohana noticed that our aunt was just barely picking at her meat entrees, and brought out a vegetarian Polynesian noodle dish that put her over the edge. She couldn't stop raving about the dish and the thoughtfulness of our server.
Hungry yet?
