Reviews from 4/6-4/11
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TigerKat
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Me too!!
MickeyNicki
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Me three!
I am for sure going to Whispering Canyon with or without DH! He is not one for the antics yet he loves the 50's PT...what is up with that???
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VERY funny reviews! Keep'em coming! I would have eaten the cheesecake too! A nightmare - ha!
poeticdiabetic
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So, it's now 4/9, and it is our day to spend at my favorite park Animal Kingdom. We decided to spend the entire day there because there's so much to see and do, and we still didn't see everything- even though we had the Evening EMH. So, we decided to eat lunch and dinner at this park. Our CS restaurant was Flame Tree and our ADR was at Yak and Yeti.
Flame Tree Barbecue
Now, just last night I embarrassed myself eating my weight in ribs, so guess what I had for lunch? MORE RIBS! And my DW had the pulled pork sandwich. My two DSs had the chicken wings. And we had the key lime pie.
OK. I'm glad I had the ribs. Those ribs were actually better than WCC. They were more tender and had better flavor. Flame Tree had the best ribs in WDW, IMO. After all the ribs I had the previous day, I thought that I would never have an enjoyable lunch eating ribs, but I did. Oh, and the key lime pie was good, too.
If you go to any CS at WDW, go to Flame Tree. It's the best, especially if you are a carnivore.
Yak and Yeti
My Yak and Yeti experience was funny. First of all, after over an hour waiting in the hot sun trying to get onto the Kali River Rapids ride (and having a Thumb Wrestling Battle Royal Tournament with about three other families while in line), we finally got on the ride. And gotten soaked. Badly. Sitting with people on the raft that came on a wet ride with rain coats. Which, to us, defeated the purpose.
Well, didn't you know it? Right after we left the ride, it rained. And we saw Finding Nemo: The Musical. While wet and now, cold. And the weather stayed cloudy and cooler.
So, hours later, I was wet, cold, and sitting in the nice, air-conditioned restaurant: Yak and Yeti.
Yak and Yeti looks old. It looks like a restaurant that you've just missed it all the other times that you've visited AK. That's a cool effect.
Well, we ordered our meals: my DW had the Honey Chicken, my MIL had the Chicken Lo Mein, the kiddies had the chicken nuggets and the veggie lo mein, and I had the Duck.
My wife really liked the honey chicken. It was typical Chinese fare. But she liked it. My MIL was still full from lunch, so my older DS just loved eating her chicken Lo Mein along with his veggie lo mein. It really was prepared well and was tasty. My duck was great, too. You have to try it. It was crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. The glaze was sweet, but had an effervescent finish. Oh, but watch out... it is duck: there's fat on one side that you would need to cut out. But it was HALF the Duck! I was full.
Now the desserts are just great. I had the mango pie. It's like key lime, but mango instead. My MIL had the chocolate brownie sundae. BIG MISTAKE! It was HUGE! It was very good, but it's a meal onto itself! And my DW had the Fried Wontons. I warned her against it, because of the bad reviews that I've read on this board, but she ordered it anyway. SHE LOVED IT! They looked great. They had this cream cheese center and smothered in pineapples and this sweet honey vanilla sauce. WOW!
She told me to stop listening to those crazy people on the DIS board.
Oh, and I guess we're the kind of people that strangers come up and tell us about their hopes, dreams, and concerns. The waitress was very nice. She did open up about her life at home with her son and the issues that she have with him. She was very personable. I guess we gave her some good advice. I checked the news later on that night and she was not on it, so that was a good sign.
All in all, Yak and Yeti is a good restaurant. I highly recommend the Duck. The honey chicken is a safe choice. And if you're hungry, or have a chocolate addiction, order the brownie sundae. You will O.D., but you'll be set for the week. But if you're adventurous, or if you want a little danger with your dessert, order the Wontons. They were great.
Next up: Pizza Planet and Sci-Fi Dine-In Theatre.
Flame Tree Barbecue
Now, just last night I embarrassed myself eating my weight in ribs, so guess what I had for lunch? MORE RIBS! And my DW had the pulled pork sandwich. My two DSs had the chicken wings. And we had the key lime pie.
OK. I'm glad I had the ribs. Those ribs were actually better than WCC. They were more tender and had better flavor. Flame Tree had the best ribs in WDW, IMO. After all the ribs I had the previous day, I thought that I would never have an enjoyable lunch eating ribs, but I did. Oh, and the key lime pie was good, too.
If you go to any CS at WDW, go to Flame Tree. It's the best, especially if you are a carnivore.
Yak and Yeti
My Yak and Yeti experience was funny. First of all, after over an hour waiting in the hot sun trying to get onto the Kali River Rapids ride (and having a Thumb Wrestling Battle Royal Tournament with about three other families while in line), we finally got on the ride. And gotten soaked. Badly. Sitting with people on the raft that came on a wet ride with rain coats. Which, to us, defeated the purpose.
Well, didn't you know it? Right after we left the ride, it rained. And we saw Finding Nemo: The Musical. While wet and now, cold. And the weather stayed cloudy and cooler.
So, hours later, I was wet, cold, and sitting in the nice, air-conditioned restaurant: Yak and Yeti.
Yak and Yeti looks old. It looks like a restaurant that you've just missed it all the other times that you've visited AK. That's a cool effect.
Well, we ordered our meals: my DW had the Honey Chicken, my MIL had the Chicken Lo Mein, the kiddies had the chicken nuggets and the veggie lo mein, and I had the Duck.
My wife really liked the honey chicken. It was typical Chinese fare. But she liked it. My MIL was still full from lunch, so my older DS just loved eating her chicken Lo Mein along with his veggie lo mein. It really was prepared well and was tasty. My duck was great, too. You have to try it. It was crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. The glaze was sweet, but had an effervescent finish. Oh, but watch out... it is duck: there's fat on one side that you would need to cut out. But it was HALF the Duck! I was full.
Now the desserts are just great. I had the mango pie. It's like key lime, but mango instead. My MIL had the chocolate brownie sundae. BIG MISTAKE! It was HUGE! It was very good, but it's a meal onto itself! And my DW had the Fried Wontons. I warned her against it, because of the bad reviews that I've read on this board, but she ordered it anyway. SHE LOVED IT! They looked great. They had this cream cheese center and smothered in pineapples and this sweet honey vanilla sauce. WOW!
She told me to stop listening to those crazy people on the DIS board.
Oh, and I guess we're the kind of people that strangers come up and tell us about their hopes, dreams, and concerns. The waitress was very nice. She did open up about her life at home with her son and the issues that she have with him. She was very personable. I guess we gave her some good advice. I checked the news later on that night and she was not on it, so that was a good sign.
All in all, Yak and Yeti is a good restaurant. I highly recommend the Duck. The honey chicken is a safe choice. And if you're hungry, or have a chocolate addiction, order the brownie sundae. You will O.D., but you'll be set for the week. But if you're adventurous, or if you want a little danger with your dessert, order the Wontons. They were great.
Next up: Pizza Planet and Sci-Fi Dine-In Theatre.
poeticdiabetic
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4/10 Pizza Planet and Sci-Fi Dine-In Theatre
Well, today is our day that we wanted to spend at Disney's Hollywood Studios (which is still hard for me to say.) We decided to stay at this park all day. It was difficult, but we did it without sitting in on that horrendous "Sounds Dangerous". When will that show go away? My apologies to all of the Sounds Dangerous fanatics.
Pizza Planet
So for lunch, we decided to eat at the tourist traps of all tourist traps: Pizza Planet. Pizza Planet has some ingenius pizza-making contraption back there, that makes those exact, calculated pizza pies that must have been seasoned by computer. I say, "Congratulations to Steve Jobs", because he must have invented this "Pizza-Maker 3.0" software program that probably runs on the MAC. In other words, there's no "love" in the food. It is pizza. We ate it. We were full. End of review.
After that boring, hapless lunch, we decided to scare people on Tower of Terror even more by screaming in terror at everything- thus completely frightening the new riders.
Oh yeah, nothing like cheap thrills via preying on the inexperienced to make the day a little brighter.
Anyhoo, we did get some more scoops of ice cream from Hollywood Scoops. They are fast becoming my snack of choice. On a hot day, there's nothing like the cool refreshment of chocolate mint ice cream, piled high on a waffle cone.
OK. For dinner, we ate at the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theatre. This was our very first time eating there, and it was fun!
Sci-Fi Dine-In Theatre
Sci-Fi was great. It was a rendition of being in a Drive-In, with your table being an old car with the "top Down." It was dark, but not too dark. And it had a large screen that showed previews of B Movies. Bad B movies. Is there a category C?
Anyway, we adults were laughing out loud about how the voice-over guys were promoting these movies. They would say something like: "The management of this theater is not responsible for any damages to your health while you watch this utterly frightening movie." And then they go on to show some guy in a gorilla suit with an old deep-sea diving mask on, walking around, chasing women in a forest.
Or, they had one that was to be a giant lizard terrorizing the town. But the car that this lizard climbed over was clearly Matchbox. The bridges and the trees were off some kid's old train set.
But the dinner was pretty good too. My MIL and my DW had (no surprise here) the ribs. They said that the ribs were the best in WDW. I personally couldn't eat another rib or BBQ to save my life. But they loved it!
Me? I ate the Butchers' Steak. It was large. It was not as good as Coral Reef, but I would still recommend it. The steak was cut off the shoulder, so it was a strange cut, but it was tender throughout. My only concern was that it was a little more rare than what I normally eat. I like a pink middle, but little juice. THis steak was close to bleeding. But since it didn't have a pulse, I can eat it.
For dessert, my MIL and DW had the cheesecake. It was good, but not as good as WCC. Me? I had this dessert called the "After Dinner Mint." It was great. It was ice cream, chopped-up Andes mints, and chocolate syrup. That was good.
So after the dinner, we decided to work off our dinner by scaring those other poor souls needlessly on TOT. And by telling new riders on RnR that there's really nothing to be scared of.
That's my review. For 4/11, our last day, we ate two CS restaurants: Tamu Tamu at the AK and ABC Commissary at DHS. Tamu Tamu was OK. The baskets are the same for kids as adults, but to this day, I do not know what kind of meat that hamburger was made of. And ABC Commissary: just don't eat there. The burger was OK. The fries were OK. The coke was OK. Nothing truly bad, but my DW couldn't eat her food. Inedible. And she had a burger. But her burger was somehow different than mine. Hers was nasty. So in a word: inconsistent. That's ABC Commissary.
I hope that this helps. I'll be back at WDW, April 5-10, 2009. I guess I need to go and pretend these sunflower seeds are fries, dream about burgers and steaks while I eat my salad for dinner, and perhaps get some grapes for dessert.
Well, today is our day that we wanted to spend at Disney's Hollywood Studios (which is still hard for me to say.) We decided to stay at this park all day. It was difficult, but we did it without sitting in on that horrendous "Sounds Dangerous". When will that show go away? My apologies to all of the Sounds Dangerous fanatics.
Pizza Planet
So for lunch, we decided to eat at the tourist traps of all tourist traps: Pizza Planet. Pizza Planet has some ingenius pizza-making contraption back there, that makes those exact, calculated pizza pies that must have been seasoned by computer. I say, "Congratulations to Steve Jobs", because he must have invented this "Pizza-Maker 3.0" software program that probably runs on the MAC. In other words, there's no "love" in the food. It is pizza. We ate it. We were full. End of review.
After that boring, hapless lunch, we decided to scare people on Tower of Terror even more by screaming in terror at everything- thus completely frightening the new riders.
Oh yeah, nothing like cheap thrills via preying on the inexperienced to make the day a little brighter. Anyhoo, we did get some more scoops of ice cream from Hollywood Scoops. They are fast becoming my snack of choice. On a hot day, there's nothing like the cool refreshment of chocolate mint ice cream, piled high on a waffle cone.
OK. For dinner, we ate at the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theatre. This was our very first time eating there, and it was fun!
Sci-Fi Dine-In Theatre
Sci-Fi was great. It was a rendition of being in a Drive-In, with your table being an old car with the "top Down." It was dark, but not too dark. And it had a large screen that showed previews of B Movies. Bad B movies. Is there a category C?
Anyway, we adults were laughing out loud about how the voice-over guys were promoting these movies. They would say something like: "The management of this theater is not responsible for any damages to your health while you watch this utterly frightening movie." And then they go on to show some guy in a gorilla suit with an old deep-sea diving mask on, walking around, chasing women in a forest.
Or, they had one that was to be a giant lizard terrorizing the town. But the car that this lizard climbed over was clearly Matchbox. The bridges and the trees were off some kid's old train set.
But the dinner was pretty good too. My MIL and my DW had (no surprise here) the ribs. They said that the ribs were the best in WDW. I personally couldn't eat another rib or BBQ to save my life. But they loved it!
Me? I ate the Butchers' Steak. It was large. It was not as good as Coral Reef, but I would still recommend it. The steak was cut off the shoulder, so it was a strange cut, but it was tender throughout. My only concern was that it was a little more rare than what I normally eat. I like a pink middle, but little juice. THis steak was close to bleeding. But since it didn't have a pulse, I can eat it.
For dessert, my MIL and DW had the cheesecake. It was good, but not as good as WCC. Me? I had this dessert called the "After Dinner Mint." It was great. It was ice cream, chopped-up Andes mints, and chocolate syrup. That was good.
So after the dinner, we decided to work off our dinner by scaring those other poor souls needlessly on TOT. And by telling new riders on RnR that there's really nothing to be scared of.
That's my review. For 4/11, our last day, we ate two CS restaurants: Tamu Tamu at the AK and ABC Commissary at DHS. Tamu Tamu was OK. The baskets are the same for kids as adults, but to this day, I do not know what kind of meat that hamburger was made of. And ABC Commissary: just don't eat there. The burger was OK. The fries were OK. The coke was OK. Nothing truly bad, but my DW couldn't eat her food. Inedible. And she had a burger. But her burger was somehow different than mine. Hers was nasty. So in a word: inconsistent. That's ABC Commissary.
I hope that this helps. I'll be back at WDW, April 5-10, 2009. I guess I need to go and pretend these sunflower seeds are fries, dream about burgers and steaks while I eat my salad for dinner, and perhaps get some grapes for dessert.
These were AWESOME reviews. Thank you so much WCC is so on our list now. And it was a great review of Sci-Fi...I haven't been there in years and it's now a consideration. MinnieMommy
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I hope that this helps. I'll be back at WDW, April 5-10, 2009. I guess I need to go and pretend these sunflower seeds are fries, dream about burgers and steaks while I eat my salad for dinner, and perhaps get some grapes for dessert.
Thanks for the reviews!
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I hope that this helps. I'll be back at WDW, April 5-10, 2009. I guess I need to go and pretend these sunflower seeds are fries, dream about burgers and steaks while I eat my salad for dinner, and perhaps get some grapes for dessert.
What a fun review.... thank you for taking us along for the calories! I have a couple of these same ADR's scheduled for September and feel great with them in my pocket now. Off to exercise to prevent future guilt.
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Thanks for the great reviews. I have had a rough week with some issues with my dad who is in a nursing home and I looked forward to coming home every night and reading your reviews...they brought a smile to my face. We are eating at some of the places you reviewed and will be trying some of the things you mentioned.
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Hi
Thanks for your great reviews!! I really enjoyed reading them!!
Thanks for your great reviews!! I really enjoyed reading them!!
poeticdiabetic
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I hope your dad gets better. And I am so happy that my reviews were humorous enough to make your day a little happier. My only wish was that I had more fun stuff to say...
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Thanks for writing the reviews, I got a laugh out of so many things, but I think the best is...
"chicken nugget strike"
I can't say I blame anybody for that!
I hope you'll post dining reviews for your next trip to, I'm looking forward to more reads.
"chicken nugget strike"
I can't say I blame anybody for that!
I hope you'll post dining reviews for your next trip to, I'm looking forward to more reads.
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Thanks for sharing your dining reviews. I totally agree with WDW pizza! You would think that "someone" at disney would notice that it's not so great!! I just don't get it? 
I also loved SciFi! We'll be going back in Oct.!
Thanks again!
I also loved SciFi! We'll be going back in Oct.!
Thanks again!
tiggersmom2
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Thanks for sharing your dining reviews. I totally agree with WDW pizza! You would think that "someone" at disney would notice that it's not so great!! I just don't get it?
I also loved SciFi! We'll be going back in Oct.!
Thanks again!
WDW used to have AWESOME pizza, for the last 5 years, this has not been true.
OP, loved your reviews, thanks for sharing.
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