DIS/Dreams Unlimited China Adventure Oct 14th - 25th 2017 SOLD OUT!!!

[Sarabi's Cubs]

There's an article on TDR Explorer this morning that Shanghai Disneyland will be celebrating Halloween for the first time this year, including a Villains Cavalcade, high energy dance party, costumes (I know Brian will be super excited for those last two), and special food items (glowstick cotton candy!) and merchandise.

 

[belle41379]

Kevin, I will probably not eat the seafood pancake, and with allergies, I would vote no on those. We are also fine with one desert each, but won't say no if we get two! lol

I need to go spend some time on TDR now.

 

[Cousin Orville]

Just to have it in one spot, here's an update on our 2 planned meals. If I've missed your name or you would like to join, please let me know.


HKDL Dim Sum lunch:
1:30pm on Oct 16th (Day 3: Keys to the Magic)

Kate & Kevin
Chandra
Rob
Laurie & Brian
Chuck, Chris, & Amy
Michael & Cynthia
Micki & John
Ian & Diane
Michael
Dave & Sally
Steven
Kevin and John
Jeff and Val
Jim and Linda
Jeremy and Tami

We will have 2 tables.

Our menu:

3 Little Pigs (BBQ pork buns) - 1 each
Little Green Men (vegetable & pork) - 1 each
Jack Skellington seasonal specialty (shrimp) - 1 each
Baymax (chicken) - 1 each
Olaf (red bean) - 1 each
ShellieMay & Duffy(sweet - green tea & ?) - I ordered 30 portions (there's 19 of us). Should be enough to share or have 1 of each which ever you prefer.

Extras of the 3 Little Pigs and Little Green Men should be available.

Please note for those with a shellfish allergy, I did keep the Jack Skellington shrimp dim sum. If that's a problem, please let me know.

~HK$271pp (~$35) before drinks

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Country Kitchen:
7:00pm on Oct 20th (Day 7: Great Wall Glory)


Kevin & Kate
Chandra
Chris, Chuck & Amy
Ian & Diane
Lauri & Brian
Michael & Cynthia
Jim & Linda
Tami & Jeremy
Sally & Dave
Rob
Michael
Micki & John
Karilynn & Bill
Kevin & John
Jeff & Val
Steven

We will have 4 tables.

We can order off the menu, but we do have 1 peking duck pre-ordered per table to share.

Here is the Country Kitchen menu.

And here is a link to tripadvisor where if you want to see pictures or see other reviews.

Should be tasty!

 

[DisneyKevin]

Hey Kevin,

Have you got room for John, me, Jeff and Val?

If not, its not an issue...but if your do....

BTW ...our passports arrived today!

 

[Cousin Orville]

Hey Kevin,

Have you got room for John, me, Jeff and Val?

If not, its not an issue...but if your do....

BTW ...our passports arrived today!

For which one? Country Kitchen or HKDL Dim Sum?

 

[jmccormick]

Would anyone be interested in doing the dim sum lunch at the HK Disneyland hotel? The dim sum is made to look like Disney characters and gets good reviews. It's very unique to HKDL. TDRExplorer did a review of it and put up a vlog:

https://tdrexplorer.com/hong-kong-disneyland-dim-sum-experience/

They say you need reservations. I was considering doing it our 2nd day full day in the Park, Oct 16 if anyone wants to join.

Please add Jim & Linda to this, sounds great.

 

[christannj]

Or both?

Chris

 

[DisneyKevin]

For which one? Country Kitchen or HKDL Dim Sum?

I'm sorry.

Both please...if possible

 

[Cousin Orville]

Hey Kevin,

Have you got room for John, me, Jeff and Val?

If not, its not an issue...but if your do....

BTW ...our passports arrived today!

I've added you, John, Jeff and Val to both Country Kitchen and the Crystal Lotus.

Please add Jim & Linda to this, sounds great.

I've added y'all to the Crystal Lotus (and you're already with us at Country Kitchen).

Dim sum #'s have been adjusted. Same portions per person as above.

So for our resident statistician, @christannj , that makes 25 for the Crystal Lotus and 28 for Country Kitchen.

 

[elcid3]

@Cousin Orville - what day and time is the Country Kitchen? I'm in for that one as well! Thanks

Just to have it in one spot, here's an update on our 2 planned meals. If I've missed your name or you would like to join, please let me know.


HKDL Dim Sum lunch:

Kate & Kevin
Chandra
Rob
Laurie & Brian
Chuck, Chris, & Amy
Michael & Cynthia
Micki & John
Ian & Diane
Michael
Dave & Sally
Steven
Kevin and John
Jeff and Val
Jim and Linda

We will have 2 tables.

Our menu:

3 Little Pigs (BBQ pork buns) - 2 each
Little Green Men (vegetable & pork) - 2 each
Jack Skellington seasonal specialty (shrimp) - 1 each
Baymax (chicken) - 1 each
Olaf (red bean) - 1 each
ShellieMay & Duffy(sweet - green tea & ?) - I ordered 30 portions (there's 19 of us). Should be enough to share or have 1 of each which ever you prefer.

Please note for those with a shellfish allergy, I did keep the Jack Skellington shrimp dim sum. If that's a problem, please let me know.

~HK$313pp (~$40).



Country Kitchen:

Kevin & Kate
Chandra
Chris, Chuck & Amy
Ian & Diane
Lauri & Brian
Michael & Cynthia
Jim & Linda
Tami & Jeremy
Sally & Dave
Rob
Michael
Micki & John
Karilynn & Bill
Kevin and John
Jeff and Val

We will have 3 tables.

We can order off the menu, but we do have 1 peking duck pre-ordered per table to share.


Should be tasty!

 

[christannj]

I see a pattern here....we are determined to spend every waking moment together or we're grateful that someone else is taking the initiative to organize our "on your own time"

With Steven, Country Kitchen is at 90.6% of the group and the Crystal Lotus is at 78.1%.

You didn't think that I would really calculate this did you, Kevin

Statistician Chris

 

[Cousin Orville]

I updated my post above and included Country Kitchen's menu since it's now several pages back. I should get final confirmation from the restaurants hopefully in the next 24 hrs with the new guest count, but they haven't had a problem yet. They've been very accommodating.

@Cousin Orville - what day and time is the Country Kitchen? I'm in for that one as well! Thanks

Done. 7:00pm on Oct 20th (Day 7: Great Wall Glory)

You didn't think that I would really calculate this did you, Kevin

Statistician Chris

I had no doubt you'd calculate those stats! Do you need to update Country Kitchen's % with Steven?

 

[Sarabi's Cubs]

Another restaurant question - is anyone who's in the Tokyo group interested in eating at Magellan's at DisneySea? It seems to be their flagship restaurant. Although I want to see as much as possible in the Tokyo parks, I do not want to run around like a crazy person trying to see everything, especially when adjusting to the time difference. I really want to enjoy the ambiance so a nice sit down meal in a beautifully themed restaurant would be welcome. It's pricey, especially because the portions are much smaller, but not that out of line with Disney World prices. The meals are sets; you get an hors d'oeuvre, soup or salad, entree and dessert for between $45-75ish depending on which set you choose.

Here's the menu from Disney's site and a pic someone else took of the menu. The Disney site was in Japanese only but google translated it and there were some pics of the meals:

http://info.tokyodisneyresort.jp/menu/restaurant/c1d4c33a7dc0f87c749a97637cd030f1.html

And some reviews:

http://www.disneytouristblog.com/magellans-review/

https://tdrexplorer.com/magellans-tokyo-disney-sea-review/

http://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/201201/2829/

I'm going to wait until we know more about how our tickets work before doing anything and also try to see if I can find out more information about when parades and evening shows are. An early dinner might avoid conflicts with those and give a rest when it feels like the middle of the night. We arrive late afternoon on Wednesday, so I'm thinking we will do a brief jaunt into Tokyo Disneyland that evening to try to stay awake, spend Thursday at DisneySea, and Friday back at Disneyland. So, Magellan's would be Thursday the 12th. I just wanted to get an idea how many might be interested in joining us.

Laurie

 

[Ian&Diane]

Another restaurant question - is anyone who's in the Tokyo group interested in eating at Magellan's at DisneySea? It seems to be their flagship restaurant. Although I want to see as much as possible in the Tokyo parks, I do not want to run around like a crazy person trying to see everything, especially when adjusting to the time difference. I really want to enjoy the ambiance so a nice sit down meal in a beautifully themed restaurant would be welcome. It's pricey, especially because the portions are much smaller, but not that out of line with Disney World prices. The meals are sets; you get an hors d'oeuvre, soup or salad,Thursday the 12th.

Hi Laurie, thanks for the offer it sounds a great idea, unfortunately we have made a reservation here for the Tuesday to celebrate our anniversary.
Ian & Diane

 

[christannj]

This looks amazing....definitely include us and I think that your plan for the parks is exactly what we were thinking. Friday also could be a hopper day since I believe John said that the third day is one, that would allow doing Disneyland and going back to Disney sea to either do or redo something.

Chris

 

[Sarabi's Cubs]

This looks amazing....definitely include us and I think that your plan for the parks is exactly what we were thinking. Friday also could be a hopper day since I believe John said that the third day is one, that would allow doing Disneyland and going back to Disney sea to either do or redo something.

Chris

Exactly what I was thinking, Chris, since DisneySea is supposed to be so beautiful and unique!

 

[Micki1014]

Another restaurant question - is anyone who's in the Tokyo group interested in eating at Magellan's at DisneySea? It seems to be their flagship restaurant. Although I want to see as much as possible in the Tokyo parks, I do not want to run around like a crazy person trying to see everything, especially when adjusting to the time difference. I really want to enjoy the ambiance so a nice sit down meal in a beautifully themed restaurant would be welcome. It's pricey, especially because the portions are much smaller, but not that out of line with Disney World prices. The meals are sets; you get an hors d'oeuvre, soup or salad, entree and dessert for between $45-75ish depending on which set you choose.

Here's the menu from Disney's site and a pic someone else took of the menu. The Disney site was in Japanese only but google translated it and there were some pics of the meals:

http://info.tokyodisneyresort.jp/menu/restaurant/c1d4c33a7dc0f87c749a97637cd030f1.html

And some reviews:

http://www.disneytouristblog.com/magellans-review/

https://tdrexplorer.com/magellans-tokyo-disney-sea-review/

http://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/201201/2829/

I'm going to wait until we know more about how our tickets work before doing anything and also try to see if I can find out more information about when parades and evening shows are. An early dinner might avoid conflicts with those and give a rest when it feels like the middle of the night. We arrive late afternoon on Wednesday, so I'm thinking we will do a brief jaunt into Tokyo Disneyland that evening to try to stay awake, spend Thursday at DisneySea, and Friday back at Disneyland. So, Magellan's would be Thursday the 12th. I just wanted to get an idea how many might be interested in joining us.

Laurie

Hi Laurie, This sounds great. JOHN and I are interested in joining you for this. I think the menu sounds awesome and I like your timing suggestions. Keep us posted. Personally
I want to try the Kirin best squeezed beer!!
I loved the translations ...lol
Micki

 

[DisneyKevin]

Hi Laurie,

John, Jeff, Val and I would love to join y'all.

Thank you!

 

[elcid3]

Hey Laurie - I need to double check with my two friends I'm meeting in Tokyo but I'm 95% sure I'm in for this. Thanks!

Another restaurant question - is anyone who's in the Tokyo group interested in eating at Magellan's at DisneySea? It seems to be their flagship restaurant. Although I want to see as much as possible in the Tokyo parks, I do not want to run around like a crazy person trying to see everything, especially when adjusting to the time difference. I really want to enjoy the ambiance so a nice sit down meal in a beautifully themed restaurant would be welcome. It's pricey, especially because the portions are much smaller, but not that out of line with Disney World prices. The meals are sets; you get an hors d'oeuvre, soup or salad, entree and dessert for between $45-75ish depending on which set you choose.

Here's the menu from Disney's site and a pic someone else took of the menu. The Disney site was in Japanese only but google translated it and there were some pics of the meals:

http://info.tokyodisneyresort.jp/menu/restaurant/c1d4c33a7dc0f87c749a97637cd030f1.html

And some reviews:

http://www.disneytouristblog.com/magellans-review/

https://tdrexplorer.com/magellans-tokyo-disney-sea-review/

http://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/201201/2829/

I'm going to wait until we know more about how our tickets work before doing anything and also try to see if I can find out more information about when parades and evening shows are. An early dinner might avoid conflicts with those and give a rest when it feels like the middle of the night. We arrive late afternoon on Wednesday, so I'm thinking we will do a brief jaunt into Tokyo Disneyland that evening to try to stay awake, spend Thursday at DisneySea, and Friday back at Disneyland. So, Magellan's would be Thursday the 12th. I just wanted to get an idea how many might be interested in joining us.

Laurie

 

[Cousin Orville]

Quick Crystal Lotus/Country Kitchen note. Everyone that recently asked to join has now been confirmed by the restaurants.

The Crystal Lotus recommended reducing the number of dim sum a little. So, now we have 1 per person of the 3 Little Pigs and 1 per person of the Little Green Men with a dozen or so extra for those that would like a 2nd. Price was reduced to ~HK$271 ($35). All the info is updated on post $623.