Day 4 (Thursday) continued:
We had reservations at Teppan Edo Thursday night at 6:40. We arrived at EPCOT around 6:20. I put my Magic Your Way card in the ticket kiosk and saw a red light instead of a green?? I tried it again and again. The person at the gate took my card and checked and told me that it was invalidated at 5:15 in the afternoon and that I needed to go to guest services for a new card! I went to Guest Services and stood in line of about 5 people in front of me and it started to rain. My poncho was with my Aunt inside the park, ARGHHH. As I waited in I realized that my Magic Your Way Card must have changed when I added a credit card to my room to get internet service. I do not know why the Cast Member at the front desk did not tell me to get a new card!?!! Well, lesson learned, I got my new card and rushed into the park at 6:40pm, the time of our reservation. I had asked the Guest Services Cast Member to call ahead to Teppan Edo so we could save our spot and when we arrived at 7:00 we were seated in minutes.
I was really excited about this meal because I remember eating here 20 years ago when my parents took me to WDW for my High School Graduation and we loved it.
This is a communal eating restaurant so we were sat with two other families. The first was a Mother and Daughter; the second was a Husband and Wife with their child. They were all great people and we talked a lot as a group not as just individual families.
Stitch who is always very observant was paying close attention to everything going on in the dining room noticed a Chef serving another table and it seemed like she was a much more personable Chef then the one serving the table across from ours. He asked if we could request her. I asked the waitress and she spoke with the manager and we were able to have Ayaka as our Chef! Stitch was right; she was personable funny and warm. The whole table loved her and thanked Stitch for requesting her.
The food was great. I did some creative cropping on some of the pics because I did not want to include images of the other guests without their permission. I forgot to take pictures of the tempura appetizer which was a little soggy.
Now for the fun stuff, pictures:
Ayaka first prepared the vegetables, onions, zucchini, and mushrooms:
Ayaka posing for a shot with her Onion Volcano:
Vegetables and Fish/Meat cooking:
Vegetable plated with dipping sauces (vegetable, beef and seafood; I loved all of them, I especially liked the seafood on my Filet Mignon):
Sesame Street, Ayaka made jokes and did tricks throughout the preparation of our meal, this was one of them:
Vegetables and Filet Mignon with Mushrooms and vegetables with Udon noodles (I got extra mushrooms because Stitch and Minnie hate mushrooms):
Fruit tart: I took one and one bite alone and I was too full from dinner, it was just o.k.
We all agreed that this was the best tasting and most fun meal of the whole trip. If you are going to WDW soon try and eat here and request Ayaka for your Chef, she was the best. She is going back to Japan in January so hurry at make your reservations at Teppan Edo.
More to come.