Animal Kingdom
Enjoy a picnic at Disney's Animal Kingdom
04/08/09 10:22 PM Filed in:
Animal Kingdom
Many guests love the diversity of food
choices they have when visiting the Walt Disney World Resorts. Now
there is a new option that you can enjoy when visiting Disney’s
Animal Kingdom Theme Park.
Take your dining adventures to the outdoors and enjoy a picnic lunch with the Picnic in the Park dining experience. Your picnic lunch will include everything you need for an enjoyable family picnic, served in one of the "Every Tree Has Character" reusable bag.
Picnic in the Park gives you a choice of entrees, side dishes, desserts and water and is available in two-tiers. Tier 1 features choice of a chicken wrap, hand grinder, tuna pita or turkey focaccia sandwiches. Tier 2 gives you a choice between a rotisserie chicken and ham.
Side dishes you can select from include chips, coleslaw, corn medley, green beans, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes and gravy, orzo pasta, oven-roasted potato wedges, seasonal fruit salad and tomato and cucumber salad. Then top off your picnic lunch with a choice of an apple, orange, brownie, cookie, cornbread or crisped rice treat for your dessert.
If you would like to place an order for this new dining adventure, which became available today, stop by the Picnic in the Park podium near the Guest Relations building at the front of Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park or at the podium at the Tusker House Restaurant in Africa. You can place your order from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. daily. Pick-up time is a minimum of two hours after you have placed your order. Bring your picnic order receipt to Kusafiri Coffee Shop and Bakery where you can pick up and pay for your order.
The Picnic in the Park dining experience can be used with the Disney Dining Plan and will be counted as one Quick Service Meal entitlement per person.
Other dining options while visiting Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park include Donald’s Safari Breakfast (character breakfast), Tamu Tamu Refreshments – Harambe, Flame Tree Barbeque, Pizzafari, Restaurantosaurus, Yak & Yeti Restaurant, Tusker House Restaurant, Rainforest Café Animal Kingdom and the Yak and Yeti Local Foods Cafe
For more info: visit www.disneyworld.com or call 407-WDW-DINE.
If you have any fact or number information you would like to share please feel free to contact DBTN@me.com.
Take your dining adventures to the outdoors and enjoy a picnic lunch with the Picnic in the Park dining experience. Your picnic lunch will include everything you need for an enjoyable family picnic, served in one of the "Every Tree Has Character" reusable bag.
Picnic in the Park gives you a choice of entrees, side dishes, desserts and water and is available in two-tiers. Tier 1 features choice of a chicken wrap, hand grinder, tuna pita or turkey focaccia sandwiches. Tier 2 gives you a choice between a rotisserie chicken and ham.
Side dishes you can select from include chips, coleslaw, corn medley, green beans, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes and gravy, orzo pasta, oven-roasted potato wedges, seasonal fruit salad and tomato and cucumber salad. Then top off your picnic lunch with a choice of an apple, orange, brownie, cookie, cornbread or crisped rice treat for your dessert.
If you would like to place an order for this new dining adventure, which became available today, stop by the Picnic in the Park podium near the Guest Relations building at the front of Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park or at the podium at the Tusker House Restaurant in Africa. You can place your order from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. daily. Pick-up time is a minimum of two hours after you have placed your order. Bring your picnic order receipt to Kusafiri Coffee Shop and Bakery where you can pick up and pay for your order.
The Picnic in the Park dining experience can be used with the Disney Dining Plan and will be counted as one Quick Service Meal entitlement per person.
Other dining options while visiting Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park include Donald’s Safari Breakfast (character breakfast), Tamu Tamu Refreshments – Harambe, Flame Tree Barbeque, Pizzafari, Restaurantosaurus, Yak & Yeti Restaurant, Tusker House Restaurant, Rainforest Café Animal Kingdom and the Yak and Yeti Local Foods Cafe
For more info: visit www.disneyworld.com or call 407-WDW-DINE.
If you have any fact or number information you would like to share please feel free to contact DBTN@me.com.
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Sanaa Brings Flavors of India, Africa To Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge
Fans of Jiko-The
Cooking Place and Boma-Flavors of Africa have a new reason to dine
at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge as Sanaa debuts May 1 in the
resort’s new Kidani Village expansion.
The new Walt Disney World restaurant’s unusual name, pronounced “Sah-NAH,” is the Swahili word for “artwork.” With interiors inspired by African art and remarkable views of the resort’s Sunset Savannah through 9-foot windows, diners experience “the art of African cooking with Indian flavors” in the 150-seat, family-oriented restaurant located on the ground floor just below the lobby.
Sanaa’s cuisine is a melting pot of tastes from the islands of the Indian Ocean that all are part of Africa – Zanzibar, the Seychelles, Comoro Islands, Mauritius and Madagascar. “These islands were on important trade routes with influences from French, Portuguese, Dutch, British, Arab and Chinese traders,” said Chef Bob Getchell. “The diverse spices and flavors give us an endless array of options for Sanaa.”
The most indelible mark on the cuisine of the region was made by Indian traders who introduced curries, spice blends and breads. Central to African-Indian cuisine is the use of the tandoor oven, essentially a large clay pot similar to a pizza oven. The tandoor provides very high, dry heat that creates a crisp outer layer and moist interior. Along with meats, a favorite tandoor oven treat is the Indian bread naan, which is slapped directly onto the oven’s clay walls and allowed to bake until puffy and lightly browned. The Sanaa kitchen will have two custom tandoor ovens.
Specialties include tandoori chicken, lamb and shrimp, slow-cooked curries, and braised short ribs. “Don’t think of curry as spicy,” said Chef Getchell, “but as a centuries-old cooking method that allows flavors to fully develop in the meats, vegetables, and sauces.” The base blend of seasonings for Sanaa’s curries include cardamom, chiles, cinnamon, cloves, saffron, coriander, nutmeg, fennel seed, cumin, tamarind, turmeric and more. The turmeric is what gives many curry dishes their characteristic yellow color.
Appetizers such as lamb kefta with tamarind-dried papaya sauce, and unusual salads like okra, radishes and tomato, roasted beets, and carrot, orange and mint start the dining experience.
Entrées include the tandoori-roasted meats, curries, and sides such as dahl (stewed lentils), curried crushed potatoes, stir-fried green beans and slow-cooked spinach and paneer (a mild South Asian cheese). Indian style flatbreads including naan, roti, and paratha are paired with chutneys, Indian style pickles and raita (yogurt-based dip).
For guests who prefer more American flavors, there is a grilled pork chop and club sandwich at lunch, and grilled flank steak at dinner.
Sweets are the final adventure, including mango pudding, cardamom-butter cake, papaya with sea salt and lime and vanilla-coconut rice pudding.
The restaurant is open from 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. and from 5-9 p.m. An adjacent 24-seat lounge serves African wines, beer and spirits. For reservations, call 407/WDW-DINE.
Kidani Village at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge is part of Disney Vacation Club.
The new Walt Disney World restaurant’s unusual name, pronounced “Sah-NAH,” is the Swahili word for “artwork.” With interiors inspired by African art and remarkable views of the resort’s Sunset Savannah through 9-foot windows, diners experience “the art of African cooking with Indian flavors” in the 150-seat, family-oriented restaurant located on the ground floor just below the lobby.
Sanaa’s cuisine is a melting pot of tastes from the islands of the Indian Ocean that all are part of Africa – Zanzibar, the Seychelles, Comoro Islands, Mauritius and Madagascar. “These islands were on important trade routes with influences from French, Portuguese, Dutch, British, Arab and Chinese traders,” said Chef Bob Getchell. “The diverse spices and flavors give us an endless array of options for Sanaa.”
The most indelible mark on the cuisine of the region was made by Indian traders who introduced curries, spice blends and breads. Central to African-Indian cuisine is the use of the tandoor oven, essentially a large clay pot similar to a pizza oven. The tandoor provides very high, dry heat that creates a crisp outer layer and moist interior. Along with meats, a favorite tandoor oven treat is the Indian bread naan, which is slapped directly onto the oven’s clay walls and allowed to bake until puffy and lightly browned. The Sanaa kitchen will have two custom tandoor ovens.
Specialties include tandoori chicken, lamb and shrimp, slow-cooked curries, and braised short ribs. “Don’t think of curry as spicy,” said Chef Getchell, “but as a centuries-old cooking method that allows flavors to fully develop in the meats, vegetables, and sauces.” The base blend of seasonings for Sanaa’s curries include cardamom, chiles, cinnamon, cloves, saffron, coriander, nutmeg, fennel seed, cumin, tamarind, turmeric and more. The turmeric is what gives many curry dishes their characteristic yellow color.
Appetizers such as lamb kefta with tamarind-dried papaya sauce, and unusual salads like okra, radishes and tomato, roasted beets, and carrot, orange and mint start the dining experience.
Entrées include the tandoori-roasted meats, curries, and sides such as dahl (stewed lentils), curried crushed potatoes, stir-fried green beans and slow-cooked spinach and paneer (a mild South Asian cheese). Indian style flatbreads including naan, roti, and paratha are paired with chutneys, Indian style pickles and raita (yogurt-based dip).
For guests who prefer more American flavors, there is a grilled pork chop and club sandwich at lunch, and grilled flank steak at dinner.
Sweets are the final adventure, including mango pudding, cardamom-butter cake, papaya with sea salt and lime and vanilla-coconut rice pudding.
The restaurant is open from 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. and from 5-9 p.m. An adjacent 24-seat lounge serves African wines, beer and spirits. For reservations, call 407/WDW-DINE.
Kidani Village at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge is part of Disney Vacation Club.
BUNDLE OF JOY: Walt Disney World Resort recently welcomed a black and white colobus monkey
03/07/09 08:16 AM Filed in:
WDW
BUNDLE OF JOY: Walt Disney World
Resort recently welcomed a black and white colobus monkey – the
first of its species born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. The infant
arrived February 17 after a six-month gestation and may be seen
along the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail with a group of five
other colobus monkeys. While the weight, size and gender are still
unknown, animal care experts are encouraged by the amount of care
given by first-time mother, Kabibi. “The baby was born looking
healthy and vigorous,” said Rebecca Phillips, a primate manager at
Disney’s Animal Kingdom. “We’re encouraged that the mother and baby
seem to be adapting well.” At birth, colobus monkeys are covered in
white fur that is gradually replaced with black hair matching the
adults. The monkeys are distinguished by their black body and white
shoulders, backs and beard. The monkeys stand between 18- and
27-inches tall and weigh approximately 12 to 32 pounds. Unlike most
primates, the colobus do not have thumbs, although they have long
tails that help them navigate through the forest quickly. Kabibi
came to Disney’s Animal Kingdom in 2008 as part the Association of
Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Species Survival Plan, which manages
genetic diversity among species through detailed records of
individual animals. Disney's Animal Kingdom also participates in
AZA Species Survival Plans for several other animals, including
elephants, cotton-top tamarins and okapi. Currently, approximately
65 colobus monkeys exist in AZA-accredited facilities around the
United States.
(Gene Duncan, photographer)
Tusker House
01/29/09 08:35 PM Filed in:
Dining | Animal Kingdom
I had Lunch on Wednesday
at the Tusker House located deep in the heart of Africa in the
village of Harambe. The buffet seemed to offer a little more choice
then the other buffets I have had this trip. The atmosphere is
definitely African. As for the food there are some bold African
flavors as well as some non African flavors. Here is a list of some
the foods served:
- Curried rice salad
- Fresh fruit
- Green bean and onion salad
- Hummus and baba ghanoush
- Jollaf rice
- Marrakech couscous
- Pearl couscous with sweet basil essence
- Sliced cold cuts
- Spiced tandoori tofu
- Spicy South African preserves
- Tabbouleh
- Traditional salads
- Tunisian couscous salad
- Vegetable samosas