Hanami – 2013 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival

Hanami

Hanami (means “cherry blossom”, very appropriate for a spring flower and garden festival don’t you think?) is located across from the Mituskoshi store in the Japan pavilion. We had stopped earlier in the festival and tried the Chirashi, we liked it quite a bit. There are few standing tables to the left between

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Primeravera Kitchen – 2013 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival

Primavera Kitchen

The Primavera Kitchen is located directly across from the Doges Palace at the Italy Pavilion, this is the same location used during the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. While there aren’t any tables in the immediate vicinity (nor shade), there are loads of tables with umbrellas located further into the pavilion,

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Epcot Flower & Garden Festival – Hanami, a good tasting

The tasting booth in Japan has a number of interesting items, including a sandwich made with noodles! However, we decided to start with something that we have some familiarity with…

Chirashi!

Food

Frushi (Fresh Strawberries, Pineapple, and Cantaloupe, rolled with Coconut Rice, atop a Raspberry Sauce sprinkled with Toasted Coconut and Whipped Cream)

Chirashi Hanazushi

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Epcot Flower & Garden Festival – Taste of Marrakesh, a poor tasting

We were really kind of excited to try the food at Taste of Marrakesh, Sarah at EatingWDW was quite impressed with her first samplings…

…even though we’ve been disappointed by Morocco’s offerings at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival for years, in fact… our last attempt to eat at their booth was before 2010.

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Epcot Flower and Garden Festival 2013 – Lotus House, a tasting

The Epcot Flower and Garden Festival is offering many more food options this year. The booth in China is called “Lotus House” – their menu …

Food:

Beiing-Style Candied Strawberries

Spring Pancake with Grilled Chicken and Green Apple

Pan-fried Vegetable Buns

Beverage:

Peach – Oolong Bubble Tea*

Kung Fun Punch (Vodka and Triple Sec with

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Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 – Wrap Up

This year, we decided to “rate” the items from the tasting booths. In summary…

BOOTH ITEM RATING Australia Grilled Lamb Chop 9 South Africa Spinach & Paneer Pocket 8.5 Australia Wines 8 Japan Sake 7.5 China Mango Tapioca Pudding 7.5 South Korea Mung Bean Pancake with Shrimp 6.5 Singapore Seared Mahi Mahi 6 China Mongolian

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Desserts & Champage Booth – Dessert Trio – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Trio of desserts

Dark Chocolate Mousse with Chili and Salted Caramel; Yogurt Panna Cotta with Orange Cake, Raspberries, and Pomegranate; and Lemon Custard Verrine with Blueberry Compote

Originally, nora was insistent on trying the Dark Chocolate Mousse with Chili and Salted Caramel, the other two weren’t that interesting to her (after all, she’s never

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South Africa Booth – Spinach and Paneer Cheese Pocket – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Spinach pocket – doesn’t look like much, does it?

Spinach and Paneer Cheese Pocket

We had tasted this earlier in the Festival and had been impressed with it – we were with a large group that day and were quite hungry. So we decided to try it again and see if it really was

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Poland Booth – Tyskie Beer – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Tyskie Beer

Tyskie beer isn’t a lager, but since it was paired with the zapiekanki we gave it a try anyway (hey! beer is usually good and is sometimes quite good). Nora thought it had a sweeter finish than most beers/ales and that it wasn’t very hoppy (that’s a good thing). Nick thought it

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Poland Booth – Zapiekanki – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Zapiekanki – “cheese toast”

Zapiekanki – Toasted mushroom, carmelized onion, and cheese bread with house-made ketchup

We tried this twice – once when we were looping the booths with a large group of friends (we thought it was wonderful, we were famished) and again on a quiet afternoon, just the two of us (we

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