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jedifreac

A Trip To Walt Disney World - EPCOT

Jul 04, 2009 00:31

Part two in my series, I guess? We went to Epcot at least three times we were there. I really liked this park...it's so different from anything we have in CA. The first time we went it was for Ken's birthday...

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matt_doyle July 4 2009, 08:10:01 UTC

TENEL KA MANATEE = WIN!

Actually, this all sounds really awesome (well, except the 'Explore the mysterious east & etc.), but that just cracked me up.

My EPCOT memory aaronjv July 4 2009, 11:40:28 UTC

Awesome recount & pics!

My only real EPCOT memory (was there when I was...10-11?) was waiting in line for something, and grandpa said "We could all be marching into a gas chamber and we wouldn't know it."

My mom hissed "Don't say that!"

I thought it was cool. Five years later, that line inspired me to write my first story, called The Queue.

Florida is rusty needles under my fingernails, so I'm glad you and Ken had fun and look so geeky-cute together.

downthemoon July 5 2009, 16:15:26 UTC

Please keep narrating your adventures as such
They are a most excellent way of postponing my homework
And, y'know, make me laugh.

swmartin July 6 2009, 20:56:24 UTC

Epcot still sells orange chicken as "authentic chinese" food?! When I was there many moons ago I noticed that the various ethnic foods were all heavily Americanized, to the point of being bland. I can understand that they needed to serve food which would appeal to people unfamiliar with foreign cuisine, but I kinda assumed that two decades of increasing globalization would have made middle America more familiar with food that wasn't made by Betty Crocker. It makes me wonder... are the flyover states still that culturally isolated, or has Disney just not bothered to update their recipes? It's pretty clear they're still using scripts recorded back when Epcot was built if they're still referring to "the mysterious East"!

jedifreac July 6 2009, 21:01:12 UTC

I felt that the table service restaurants served authentic dishes, maybe a bit of "Asian fusion" but otherwise good. The "take-out" places are the ones that galled me. They had the Orange Chicken, the Nachos with Plastic Cheese, Shawarma, etc.

My evaluation of China's take-out Chinese food--remember that I am snooty, though!--is that the Beef Noodle Stew was too bland, the Orange Chicken was too strongly flavored, and that the kim chee wasn't pugnant enough.

I don't know, at least no one told me "It's so cool that you're Chinese, I love your food." I have gotten that before, yanno.

swmartin July 7 2009, 01:04:48 UTC

OK, that makes sense. So at least the table service food improved. As for the "take-out" food I don't even know if there was any when I went. If there was, I never ate any. We were way too stuffed from lunch in Morocco, dinner in Norway, dessert in France, and then back the next day for dessert in England (first time I had trifle!).

Oh, and you would have enjoyed one of the buttons produced at WorldCon (the other half of the Orlando trip that year): "Yes, but it's a wet heat."