Day 4
Lunch
Epcot's Food & Wine Festival
China
Pork pot stickers. These were excellent. Two perfectly cooked (crisp outside, slightly chewy dough) pot stickers filled with pork and with a delicious vinegary sauce.
India
Samosa with tamarind sauce. This was one of my favorites. I love Indian food and I know what good Indian food should taste like. This was a great version of a samosa, better than some versions I've had in NYC where there are a lot of Indian restaurants. For those who have never tried it, a samosa is a potato and pea filled fried dough. The tamarind sauce was both sweet and salty and had a good balance. Sometimes they can be spicy but I didn't find it too spicy at all.
South Africa
Durban spiced chicken on a skewer. Ruben tried this one. He enjoyed it. I didn't taste it because I've tried it before at past Food & Wine Festivals and I didn't want too get too full too fast.
Turkey
Manti with yogurt sauce. This was a beef ravioli with a yogurt sauce and paprika oil on top. It was pretty tasty, albeit a bit chewy.
Germany
Spaetzle with creamy mushroom ragout. Ruben ordered this and I tried a bite. It was very creamy and quite good. The spaeztle had a strong corn flavor which made it a bit sweet. Becca kept calling it "Corn Pops". I guess she thought it was really sweet!
Poland
Paczki and honey wine. The paczki was a donut filled with apricot. It sounded really promising but in reality was very dense and dry. The honey wine was so strong, all of Poland's wines should be labeled as alcohol shots instead!
Cabbage roll with spiced beef. Becca ordered this one, I didn't taste it. I've had it at past Food & Wine Festivals and it is really good.
Hops and Barley Market
Boston Lager glazed chicken drumstick with blue cheese and celery. I didn't get a lot of glaze but I still enjoyed this a lot. The chicken was cooked perfectly. I usually don't like chicken on the bone but this was delicious. It came a sauce made up of chopped celery mixed with blue cheese. The sauce became a little watery from the celery.
Japan
Vegetable roll. Becca ordered this and said it was just okay. It was a little big and difficult to manage.
Crispy sukiyaki beef roll. Notice our hidden Mickey? Kevin ordered this and stated it was only okay. He likened it to a regular sukiyaki dish all rolled up into one.
Not pictured, Takara Plum Wine. Kevin ordered this one also and I tasted it. I was impressed with the real plum flavor and really enjoyed it. Kevin said it got too sweet after a few sips and didn't finish it.
Oklahoma-Rose Rock Diner
Native Peach Buckle. This was a little bit dry but it was good and I managed to finish it.
Oklahoma-Three Sisters' Cafe
Three Sisters' Soup. This was a broth based soup filled with zucchini, beans and corn and topped with croutons. Becca ordered this one and I tasted it. The flavors were very fresh and clean.
Snack
Ghiradelli's
Becca and I took a break during the day and went to Downtown Disney to do a little shopping. We stopped off at Ghiradelli's for some much needed ice cream! I had the frozen banana dipped in chocolate and rolled in almonds. This was not on the menu anymore but I asked about it and they still do make them. It was so delicious! The chocolate was semi-sweet. Becca had a milkshake which was some sort of candy bar milkshake made to resemble a mint chocolate bar. I don't know the exact name of what she ordered, sorry. She said it was awesome!
Dinner
Back to Epcot for some more Food & Wine Festival
Dominican Republic
Mofungo. This was supposed to be mashed yucca with pork cracklings and shrimp. I say supposed to because there were no cracklings in it. The shrimp wasn't all that good and the yucca was very stringy. I was pretty disappointed because I saw Anthony Bourdain try the Puerto Rican version of this dish and I really wanted to taste it, it looked so good. I'll have to go to a real restaurant and try this dish again. No one else wanted to taste this one and I ended up throwing most of it out.
Canada
Canadian Cheddar Cheese Soup and Mission Hill Reserve Riesling Icewine. The line for this booth seemed about a mile long but it was definitely worth the wait. The soup was delicious as always and somehow the 1 oz of wine seemed worth the hefty $5.25 price tag. The wine was sweet and perfect and wonderful.
Will post the rest of Day 4 later!
thumbs down to 'seasonal' stuff! 
We were able to drag ourselves out of bed and we only got there a few minutes late. The characters started coming right away and we were able to see Goofy, Mickey, Pluto and Minnie before we even got a chance to go up to the buffet. 
), I had two of the rice krispy treats. They were delicious, I had to stop myself from going up and eating a whole other plateful! 
Everyone enjoyed their breakfast and no one was too mad at me that we had to get up so early. 
I had the carrot and celery sticks with ranch dipping sauce from the refrigerated section. I forgot to take a picture of it but believe me, you aren't missing much. 
It was a nice snack.
That just means we have to plan another trip and only go to Food and Wine...You in? 
