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Disney Crone/Kid
08-20-2001, 04:23 PM
FOOD BEAUTIFUL DISNEY FOOD!

From tasty churros and yummy corndogs to elegant cuisine at the Mondavi restaurant in Disney California Adventure, Napa Rose in The California Grand and the Blue Bayou in Disneyland, Disney FOOD is always a highlight for us whenever we visit The Happiest Place on Earth.

The food information here at MousePad/Planet have greatly enhanced and expanded our food experiences, often serving as the impetus to overcome our eat-at-home inertia and get on the freeway for a Disney meal.

This morning, I spent a few hours organizing these terrific food threads for my quick and easy reference. As a little way of saying thanks to you who generously share your food thoughts , I thought I'd share this list with you, and with hopes that you will share more of your thoughts. I apologize ahead of time, as it is by no means comprehensive, just a two-hour effort of cutting and pasting, accompanied with gobs of drool:

Best spot to relax (and eat):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=482

Breakfast:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=794
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=347

Cast Members Feedback:
http://www.mouseplanet.com/drr/drrother.htm#complaints

- :D Cast Member Honor Roll: Those Who Make Walt Proud
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=18902#post18902
- :(Rude Cast Members: Those Who Make Walt Sad:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=369

Chef Kevin Yee (MousePlanet food columnist):
http://www.mouseplanet.com/chef/

Discounts & $-Savers:
http://www.mouseplanet.com/al/docs/meals1.htm#money
http://www.mouseplanet.com/drr/drrdiscounts.htm
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1142

Food:
- Disneyland (DL)
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1240
- Disney California Adventure (DCA):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=735
- Eating your way through the park:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1632
- Found only at DLR
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1447
- Meals (& Discount Info):
http://www.mouseplanet.com/al/docs/meals.htm
- Traditions:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1753
- Treats
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=259
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=328

Recipes:
http://www.mouseplanet.com/drr/drrrecipes.htm
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cabana/6495/recipes.html
http://www.ratcage.com/disney/parks/disneyland/recipes/
http://www.edjohnston.com/travel/dsnyfd05.htm
http://www.homestead.com/disneyrecipes/Disneylandrecipes.html

Restaurants, General Info:
Menus, Restaurant Reviews, Birthdays and Parties, Dietary Restrictions / Allergies,
Holiday Meals, Picnic Areas / Personal Food, and more!
http://www.mouseplanet.com/drr/drrother.htm

http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1240
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=971
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=685

Restaurants, Downtown Disney (DTD):
http://www.mouseplanet.com/drr/drrdd.htm
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=593
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1540

Restaurants, Reservations:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1514

Restaurants, Specific:
- Blue Bayou, Mondavi's Vineyard Room, Napa Rose:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1785
- Avalon Cove (DCA):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=469
Avalon Cove Bar (DCA):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=819
- Blue Bayou (DL):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=402
http://www.edjohnston.com/travel/bayou.htm
- Bountiful Garden (DCA):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=969
- Catal (DTD):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=612
- Club 33 (DL, Restricted to club members only):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1343
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1134
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=339
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=250
http://www.beachcalifornia.com/disney2.html
- McDonalds (DL):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1768
- Napa Rose (Grand Californian):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=696
http://www.ocnow.com/auto_docs/dining/25283.html
http://www.ocnow.com/auto_docs/dining/25283-comment1.html
- Rain Forest Cafe (DTD):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=578
- Wetzel's Pretzels (DTD):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=594
- Y Arriba Y Arriba (DTD):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=348

Romancing/Food/Restaurants/Dancing
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1485
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1505
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1679
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=548
Dancing:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=228

Specific Foods/Miscellaneous Food Threads:
- Bengal BBQ (DL):
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=642
- Hamburgers:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=505
- Mouse Pad Members:
- Just like mom used to make...:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1563
- Hot Dogs
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=183
- Mickey Bread:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=608
- Pizza:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=597
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1442
- The Ten Best Things of Disneyland:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1011



MousePlanet Food Search Results:
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=00082ce6-sp00000000&sp-q=food


Add your favorite FOOD threads below. Thanks in advance!

Ralph Wiggum
08-20-2001, 05:24 PM
http://cwm.ffrepublic.com/s/cwm/cwm/eek2.gif OMG!!! You are my new favorite person...thanx for all the time you put into that :)

JRob2k1
08-20-2001, 05:26 PM
Somebody sign this guy up for a job at Mouseplanet...Quick!
;)

-JRob

tjrj
08-21-2001, 09:47 AM
Oh my goodness! Thank you, thank you disneycrone/kid for the effort! Except I think I need a new keyboard because of the drool...hee...hee!

Gregmh48
08-21-2001, 10:29 AM
Wow! That's a lot of work! Thank you.

Napsto
08-21-2001, 11:53 AM
wow

jslivinski
08-23-2001, 12:36 PM
I'm speechless. What a great job. Thanks.:D :D :D

lisap
08-23-2001, 02:11 PM
Beautiful. You are hereby dubbed the Queen Of Disneyland Resort Food. Long Live the Queen!!

:D

Disney Crone/Kid
08-24-2001, 09:26 PM
Originally posted by lisap
Beautiful. You are hereby dubbed the Queen Of Disneyland Resort Food. Long Live the Queen!!

:D

Never was prom queen. Nor homecoming queen. Never ever been dubbed. Too old to be a princess.

Twas o so sweet of you to dub me QUEEN. `Tis good to be QUEEN.

As Sovereign Majesty Queen of Disneyland Resorts food, I hereby assume monarchical duties over all the lands of Disneyland Resorts, except ToonTown, which I do not fancy. The following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

- Food eaten at Club 33 IN THE COMPANY of Her Sovereign Majesty Queen of Disneyland Resorts is magically devoid of calories.

- Corndogs, fritters, churros, beignets, funnel cakes and MM ice cream sandwiches that are consumed with gustatory delight IN THE PRESENCE OF A MOUSEPADDER are as low-carb as fresh garden salads without croutons.

- If you drink a diet soda with a Disney churro, they cancel each other out.

- If you fatten up everyone else around you with DLR food, then you look thinner.

- When eating with someone else, calories don't count if you both eat the same amount.

- Foods used for medicinal purposes have no calories. This includes hot fudge sundaes used for energy, wines at Mondavi and beer at DCA for mellowing out, mint juleps, frozen lemonade and Dole pineapple whips for refreshment, and Fantasia Ice Cream for sheer joyfulness.

- The preservatives in anything chocolate at DLR will make you look younger.

- Food consumed when watching Fantasmic, Electrical Light Parade, and other shows/parades have less calories simply because they are a part of the Disney entertainment experience and not part of one's personal fuel.

- Mickey Mouse cookies, rice krispies and soft pretzels contain no calories because the process of breakage causes calorie leakage.

- If you eat the food off someone else's plate, the calories don't count.

- If you eat standing up the calories all go to your feet and get walked off. (This should discourage those fakers on wheelchairs!)

- Thy shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.

- The Queen will grant royal favors in exchange for Club 33 macaroons.

The QUEEN has spoken. (http://store6.yimg.com/I/123frame_1637_7454720)

lisap
08-25-2001, 07:39 PM
Originally posted by Disney Crone/Kid

- The Queen will grant royal favors in exchange for Club 33 macaroons.

The QUEEN has spoken. (http://store6.yimg.com/I/123frame_1637_7454720)

Ahh, you know of the magical macaroons? The sad thing is--Club 33 macaroons never taste as good the next day, even when kept in a small airtight ziplock bag stored in a nice cool handbag...oops, I think I've said too much...:eek:

Um, anyway...
Long Live the Queen.
;) :D

Disney Crone/Kid
09-03-2001, 05:41 PM
Dear lisap,

I have cased out Club 33, via this website with a movie http://www.lilesnet.com/fun/Club33/default.html , and I see that the Club has several windows.

For fresh macaroons to be consumed on the same day of its serving, I am willing to stand below any of those Club 33 windows. With a royal hand on each side of my billowing skirts, I will daintily and nonchalantly hold said skirts up to form a superb macaroon catcher.

Just let me know the day, time and .... out of which window you'll be tossing those tasty magical macaroons.

I'll be there.

Your friend, Queenie

P.S. Your little one (in the avatar spot) is ADORABLE. What a sweetie!

Disney Crone/Kid
11-05-2001, 11:42 AM
We live for sushi.

Yamabuki is touted as an award-winning, classical Japanese restaurant with a full sushi bar. We decided to give the sushi bar a try.

The decor is simple and beautiful, with strongly contrasting reds and black and lots of pine wood. "More is less" came to mind. The black lacquer chair backs have Mickeys carved in them in a simple, uncluttered outline. Very Zen. A picture's worth a thousand words:
Photo ofthe interior of Yamabuki Restaurant (http://disneylandsource.com/tom/restaurants2.html)

[Yamabuki is pronounced yah mah boo kee, and means "mountain rose"]

At the sushi bar, we met a lovely woman named Evelyn from Cincinnati, Ohio, who was dining alone. An environmental engineer, she was in town, working a booth at a conference. As is a drinking bar, the sushi bar is a good place to make quick friends. I could see that she had not been taught how to dip her sushi in her soy sauce. Her sushi kept falling apart into sloppy messes. I taught her to dip it, fish down, and she was delighted to learn something so simple, but not obvious.

She was using a pair of chopsticks, bound together at one end with a rubber band, intended to help the novice "keep it all together". I could see that she was struggling with them, so I told her that it is very ok to use one's fingers. Sushi is the original finger food. Novices think they HAVE to use chopsticks at a sushi bar. Wrong. It is customarily acceptable to use your fingers. Just as acceptable as using chopsticks. Either way is just fine.

But I told her if she'd like, I'd teach her how to use chopsticks. She was very interested. It's all technique. Simple technique. She mastered the skill in minutes.

We thoroughly enjoyed the itamae (sushi chefs) at Yamabuki; they are traditionally trained and masters of their sushi-making art and craft. Sei is from Okinawa; he is practically part of the furniture, having been at the restaurant since the mid 1980s. He's been America for 21 years and still knows very little English. His sushi-making colleague, Richard Sato from Kumamoto, knows more English and we learned that he knows our favorite sushi chef in the mountains, Abe-san, who owns Sushi Ichiban.

The waitress, Toshie, was beautiful in her kimono and obi, and very warm and friendly.

We had delectable sushi, artistically and proficiently made, made with squid, clam, toro, scallops from northern Japan (Hokkaido), natto roll, sake, and octopus sushi, washed down with two tall bottles of Sapporo beer. The seafood was fresh and delicious; the sushi rice, perfectly prepared.

Yamabuki is sushi heaven.

We give it five stars. We'll be back!

Nigel2
11-05-2001, 10:11 PM
Have you ever tired Fugu (sp?) it is actually quite interesting to eat, apparently (well we were told this) that the tingling sensation on your tounge a "safe" form of the toxin found in the fish, very pricey, but worth it.

Disney Crone/Kid
11-12-2001, 12:47 PM
Hi Nigel!

I'm sorry I missed your reply. Yes, I've had fugu, but not the fresh kind, just the dried kind which is good as beer chaser.

Never felt the tingle, though I'm not sure I want to afraid that it might be my last taste sensation...

Nigel2
11-12-2001, 12:50 PM
You need to have it fresh (or frozen I think) for the tingle, who cares if it is your last meal, if you die the one that prepared it (well they are supposed to) commits suicide so you wont be lonely. :D

Dlandmom
11-21-2001, 01:33 PM
Okay, I have now tried the infamous Bellagio Buffet, and it was absolutely wonderful! Who knew there could be a gourmet buffet in Las Vegas?!

Morrigoon and I had lunch there last week (at her recommendation), and geez was it good! Okay, I know this isn't Disney food, but I just had to post it for Disney Crone/Kid to see, being the foodie that she is!!!

Disney Crone/Kid
01-18-2002, 08:36 PM
to reply to your post, Dlandmom. I just now read it.

Ever the foodie, I'll be sure to check this out next time I'm in Vegas. What made it special? Tempt me...as if I need tempting. Thanks for the tip.

I had heard about the garden, and yes, indeed I was amazed -- and totally awed -- by those gorgeous and massive floral arrangements in the Bellagio's Conservatory. Kinda like DL's StoryBook Land in its horticultural wonders, but on the opposite side of side of the size spectrum.
http://www.vegas.com/attractions/on_the_strip/bellagioconservatory.html

Extravagances to the extreme -- maybe like their buffet? Comparable to Club 33's $50 buffet? Not that a peon like me would ever know what that EXPERIENCE of experiences for a foodie like me would be like...

Any tips on how to gain admission for a one time experience to Club 33 without having to go through The Make A Wish Foundation (I am healthy, so that's out) or winning the California lottery (I can wish...)?