Orlando Theme Park Eats Ft. Magic Kingdom

Jens is coming home! I'm currently at the Miami airport waiting for my flight and I hope everyone had an amazing spring break! or good days at work! This year, I was off to Florida for some sunshine and happiness. Although I had been eating endless junk food during my days at the theme parks, I still found delicious eats that I would like to share with y'all!

and another tip! Please don't ever try to go to 1 theme park a day for 4 consecutive days. Take a day off in between! It was honestly the most tiring thing ever, and I thought school was stressful enough....

With weathers up to 30 to 34 degrees in Orlando, it could be tough to find directions from rides to shows to rides, so why not stop for some Ice cream?! 

Plaza Ice cream Parlor is located on Main Street (Very close to the Walt Disney Statue/Castle), and is hosted by Edy's. I absolutely love its interior designs, pastel blue and pink walls make this little place very dreamy and "princessy".  

The lineups vary from time to time, but it gives you time to read the menu. They serve huge sundaes, Mickey Mouse cones/sandwiches and simple scoops. I got the double scoop (Cookies N Cream & Butter Pecan) Ice cream cone ($4.49USD 4.5/5). 

Tasted good like most Ice Cream shops in Vancouver, creamy consistency and flavours were on point. (Not overly sweet or bland) The scoops are huge, and is definitely worth it for a price of $4.50 for 2 scoops!! If you are staying in one of the Disney World Resort, you will be given a magic band so it was extremely easy to pay for everything within the Disney World theme parks and hotels. 

Now on to our late dinner! We only had time for some quick food before the fireworks! But don't worry, if you want to be nicely seated in a restaurant within the park, there are plenty! Even a buffet with the Disney characters, but the lineups were insane.

With no other choices since our feet were hurting so much, we lined up for the nearest fast food corner, called Casey's Corner. (It was extremely busy as well). We struggled to find a seat, but after around 20 minutes of waiting, we finally got a table outside.

My dad, sister and I all got the BBQ Slaw Dog ($9.99 5/5) (Fries or Apples slices included). It is basically a hot dog topped with pulled pork, cole slaw and barbecue sauce.  The sausage and the bun were as ordinary as they could get. But the toppings were creative and mind blowing. Coleslaw was crispy and creamy, pulled pork was not over cooked, and the portion was huge. If you are a messy eater like me, get a spoon and eat some of the toppings first, then finish the rest with the hot dog. Not the healthiest option you can get, but after more than 12 hours of walking, I think I had the spare calories for a meal like this! 

Nando's Chicken On Davie (DOVF Stop #1)

DINE OUT VANCOUVER FINALLY STARTED! but...I've been insanely busy with school since midterms are coming up... ugh, why can't dine out be in March or April instead of exam season?
Anyways, I'm lucky enough to go on the second day of the festival after my miniEnterprize conference on Saturday, and my friend really wanted to go to Nando's. I agreed because I've never had Nando's, (what kind of foodie am I.. ) and I heard all positive things about them, so why not? (plus they were rated the best $18 menu last year or the year before.)

This year's Dine Out Menu

Hungry and Tired, 4 girls bused from UBC all the way to Davie, and ran in the pouring rain with heels and business formal attire... just to get Nando's? yeah we are crazy like that, but hey! Their menu did not disappoint.

For appetizer, I went with the good old Caesar Salad with garlic bread. There isn't much to say about this basic dish, Everyone can make it at home.

Entree, I chose the Flame-Grilled Half Chicken with rice, garlic mashed potato and peri fries.
Their portions are huge (I was actually half full after a full plate of salad). The side dishes were on point, except for its rice, It had no flavour at all. But if you add some Nando's special sauce then it should be fine. Chicken was no doubt, juicy and tender, very well done. I asked for medium spicy. If you are a big fan of spicy food, go ahead and order extra hot!

Everything was great until my dessert came, all my friend ordered the candy shell gelato but for some reason, I wanted to try the Portuguese nato tart, I imagined it to be ... well not a simple egg tart,  but when the server came with an egg tart I was thinking: what is this??! I can totally get better and cheaper ones at T&T or just make it myself.
Lesson of the story.. DO NOT ORDER THE TART! unless you really like egg tarts... I had a bite of the gelatos, they were amazing, binded perfectly with the candy shell... *SIGH* so much regrets.

Overall Experience:
I'd give its menu a 4/5. Appetizers could have been better, possibly a soup and salad combo. Dessert would've been fine if I ordered the gelato with everyone else. However, their entree was nearly perfect! It was a pretty good deal for $18 and I will definitely revisit to try its non dine out items.

Insadong Korean Restaurant

I'm finally done with Artona and it's time to feast again! I decided to go with Insadong because I haven't been there in a long time, and I wonder if their food is still consistent or not.

The interior is normal like any Asian restaurants, so I didn't take a lot of pictures. The food is obviously more important than the atmosphere for this type of dining! I remembered that Insadong was usually crazy busy, but surprisingly, it was only half full when i went tonight.

My parents and I ordered the couple BBQ combination for 2-3 people ($59.99 4/5), It was more than enough for 3 people! (and my dad eats a lot lol). I think the price isn't too high at a rate of $20 per person. This combination includes beef salad, radish seaweed roll, a choice of seafood non-spicy soft tofu soup or soybean soup , a choice of seafood pancake or bulgogi japche. For BBQ: a piece of marinated beef ribs, marinated beef, spicy pork and chicken bulgogi and 3 pieces of marinated short ribs. For seafood BBQ: 3 mussels, 3 prawns and 2 oysters.

Beef salad and the radish seaweed roll were very refreshing, It's good for appetizers as well as "desserts" to clean up the heavy flavours. Seafood tofu soup was okay, It was too much for my taste since I don't like seafood that much. The pancake tasted bland, so I added some sauce. They gave us a lot of sauces and side dishes, I loved their kimchi, it's not super salty like other ones but sweet and crispy instead, I actually finished the dish by myself!

The BBQ meats were mostly tender, (It also depends on how good you are as a griller?!) The only exception was that some ribs were hard to chew because they had too many tendons attached. But overall the meats were well marinated and flavourful. and once again, I didn't eat any seafood BBQs.

Overal Experience:

The service was really good, they managed to change our grill FOUR times! The food is still consistent even after all these years in service. Side dishes gave me chills, especially their kimchi! I'm pretty sure a lot of people still prefer the salty ones, but I like it when it's slightly sweet. 

Parking wasn't too tough,  just park near Pho 99 and It takes 30 seconds to walk to Insadong.