12.1: Off day at Disney Springs

Stitch spit on me :(

Not much to report today; we went to Downtown Disney, ate a ton of food, purchased a ton of Disney swag and came home. The American dream, basically. We'll go over what we ate at Rainforest Cafe, but I can't really show what we got because most of you are going to be getting it as gifts. All we got for ourselves is that I got myself a pair of swank gold sweatpants (this is not a joke). So here's what we ate:

Nick: South China Chicken Salad

Pretty good! I don't know if the picture does justice to how huge this is, but it's a big huge massive bowl full of lettuce, potato sticks, sesame seeds, carrots, rice noodles, scallions... and one extra ingredient that isn't listed and I wasn't expecting: Love. No, actually it's little orange pieces. I liked everything except the orange pieces, which were mushy and very odd to bite into. I didn't eat all the chicken, which could be fried (It Could Be Fried: The Nick Hammer Story), but otherwise I gulped this all down real fast. Not the best salad out there, but in the top five for sure. Fry up that chicken, deep six the orange and you've got a champ. Oops, I need to fill up a little more room to get past the image. Harb a blarg a blarb a zarp. Did that do it? Ah, almost. There we go. Okay, Katie!

Katie: Chicken Quesadillas and House Salad

The chicken quesadillas were good, a few slices had pieces of chicken that were too thick for me but overall I liked it. The house salad was good for what it is and much bigger than I thought it would be. I chose the China Island dressing, which is so good I found myself stealing things from mom's big appetizer plate just to use as a dressing delivery system. 

Mom: Big appetizer plate I already forgot the name of and house salad

Surprisingly enough, I liked the spinach artichoke. I like spinach but not artichoke. I really liked the chicken tenders. The other stuff was okay, it wasn't great but it was okay. 

As for the house salad, I liked that a lot. 

Nick's thoughts: The big appetizer plate is chimi-cha-chas (light, crisp wonton skin embraces roasted chicken breast, sweet corn, onions, black beans, fresh lime, roasted red peppers and our four-cheese blend. served with fresh guacamole and pico de gallo), spinach & artichoke dip with tri-colored tortilla chips, cheese sticks and chicken tenders. served with fresh guacamole, marinara and coconut curry sauce. I had a chimi-cha-cha and a tendie, both of which were good. The chimi-cha-cha tastes like a spicy eggroll from City Line, if you want to re-create the Rainforest Cafe experience without being in a rainforest with screaming monkeys. The chicken tender and the honey mustard were also good, kind of, I want to say, spicy? Maybe it's that thing where the honey mustard is more mustard than honey. Good, though, and the only reason I didn't have more was because I had to face off with my gigantic salad.

After that we went shopping at Goofy's Candy Co where I got I can't tell you, then the world's largest Disney store where I got none of your business (Katie's note: they no longer ship to your resort so keep that in mind when you shop). Except for this one thing I got for myself. May I present my super swank set of 50th anniversary sweatpants (huge dramatic fanfare as a curtain rises on the following picture):

So, a pretty successful day! Now it's back to the resort to drink Coke Zero and play Animal Crossing. Katie's designing a beach-themed cafe called Sandi Buttz.