Use your imagination

[Philly81]

With Expedition Everest opening in 2006 (too far away for my liking!) I think AK needs some more dining options. How about a sit down that somehow ties to the theming of EE and a counter service place? Wouldn't it be neat to have a restaurant that had glass windows that you could see the ride from, the mountains, and maybe had a glacier/glacier melting waterfall - a place with a lot of ambience. Ok, I know - too much time on my hands tonight. But if you were to design it what would it look like and what would the menu be like?

 

[Taryn]

Okay... I'll bite *pun intneded*

I'd call it Kathmandu and it would be a sit down which Animal Kindom really needs. Since Nepalese food is not the most comon food in North America I'd make it a buffet like Boma so that people could come and try little bits of many things. I would think the pricing would be similar to Boma as well. It would be open for all meals and breakfast would be a characater meal with more North American foods and the cast of the Jungle book. Some things you would find on the buffet...

Chatamari - (Newari) food resembles Pizza or Dosa (south Indian). rice flour flat bread cooked over heat with toppings such as minced meat (with or without some vegetable), egg, sugar or no toppings.

Choyla -(Newari) grilled /roasted spicy meat. usually eaten as appetizer

Gundruk - dried and fermented green vegetables leaves. when made to soup gives a slightly sour, slightly tangy.

Kwati - (Newari) soup with many beans. a festival specialty

Momo(cha) - (Newari) a dumplings filled with minced meat (usually buffalo in Nepal, Turkey elsewhere), served steamed or fried. very popular appetizer, afternoon snack or evening meal.

Samay Baji - (Newari) beaten rice with roasted meat, smoked fish, boiled-then-fried egg, black soybeans and diced ginger.

Sekuwa - grilled meat usually made from mutton, duck, chicken, buff, wild boar.

Sel - donoght-like shaped dessert/snack made from rice flour

Sukuti - spicy dried meat roasted over a charcoal fire.

Alu Tama - Potato made with bamboo shoots.

Takhala - (Newari) Jello of meat soup served cold.

Wo and Bara- (Newari) flour patty made of lentils with or without meat/egg topping. used in ritual or festival or used as snack.

Alu Tama - Bamboo shoot and potato.

Dal - lentil soup usually eaten with rice. most popular lentils usued as dal in Nepal are black, red and yellow.

Sag - Green Vegetables - Spinach, mustard greens or broad-leaved mustard. A standard accompaniment to plain rice for lunch or dinner.

Masu - meat with spices (curry) and gravy. usually served with rice. Most Nepalese eat chicken, mutton. Some eat buffalo and pork. Almost no one eats cow. Killing cow is prohibited in Nepal

Bhat - steamed rice

Tarkari - any vegetable or group of vegetables in curry, usually broth. can be made in thousand s ways.

Achar - a sour, spice or seet pickle. can be made in thousand ways. the most poplar are made of ground tomatoes, sliced radish, ground coriander, boiled or diced potatoes.

Dahi - Yogurt/Curd

Juju Dhau - popular creamy curd from Bhaktapur. Juju literally means ‘‘king".

Sikarni - curd mixed with dried fruits.

I think the themeing should be like a Sherpa village rather than the obvious exxploration camp. We already have somethng that looks like that at Restaurantosaurus and I think the town idea has many more possibilities for the kind of details Disney does best.

Anyone coming? I'd make sure it was a part of the MYW dining plan!

 

[CamColt]

Wow Taryn! You have it all planned out. I like the idea of another character breakfast there and Jungle book would be a good theme. Or even have some of those characters and maybe some Lion King ones too.

Ill be curious as to what others have in mind. Great idea for a thread, Philly.