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I'm caught up now. Great reviews and pictures!
Now, when do the drinking reviews start?
Kathy
Now, when do the drinking reviews start?
Kathy
This comment from Todd does not surprise me at all. And I can just see him saying it with a straight face too. Mark will love it when I show this to him tonight.
Enjoying reading this and looking forward to finding out how it all works out. Can't imagine going to WDW with no ADR's!
Yay! I'm in! I have been waiting for this since you left!
I am SO in!!! Your dining reviews crack me up!!!!
Wow at getting into Nine Dragons without an ADR - was this a recurring theme throughout the trip? If so am sure DH would love to go without a plan again!
Apart from the shrimp toast all the food looks and sounds delish!
I knew this would happen! I have made sooooo many changes to my ADRs and thought I was finally set. Nine Dragons is one that has been on and off my list. I thought it was officially off but now I am rethinking.
Ugh, you're killin' me, Nicki!
And your reviews have only just started!
Hey Nicki!!
Glad you guys had a great trip and I can't wait to hear about the rest of your "reservation-less" dining experiences.
I am SOOOOO happy that we finally got to meet! You and Todd are wonderful people and so easy to talk to! I'm looking forward to seeing you again too! Are you guys planning to go for F&W in Oct?
LOVING the reviews so far - our first trip was without reservations (because we were WDW newbies and had no idea we needed them ) by the end of our trip I would have kidnapped Mickey and held him to ransom for a plate of veggies.
I nearly fell over backwards laughing when I read WHERE Todd wanted to eat!
But your review puts Nine Dragons back on the map! Thank god I have not started serious planning yet.
LOVE the review so far! I am so in - but may get a little behind over the holiday weekend!
Your reviews are great!
BTW - we had an awesome experience at Nine dragons with DD (when she was 2.5) in 2009. Food was very tasty, service awesome and the servers went out of their way with DD - getting her kids chopsticks and her own rice bowl etc....
I found myself wandering over to KatMark's PTR and found out you were on a trip, but that couldn't be because Nikki always does a LIVE report!!! Then to find out no ADRs LOL!! I couldn't wait for you to get home and get started!!! And what a great start!!
Loving your reviews, can't wait to see how the entire trip panned out!
I'm glad you enjoyed your meal at Nine Dragons! I was worried when I saw where you ate, since I know what a horrible meal you had there last time, but I'm glad it was so much better this time. The one time I've been there I had that honey-sesame chicken too, and thought it was good, but I can get the same thing at home for much cheaper, so I've never bothered to go back, especially with all the other wonderful Epcot options, but maybe I'll get around to it someday.
You have great luck at meeting other DISers! Aside from you, I've only met one other.
And that shrimp toast does just look greasy and no good. At least the rest of your meal was much better.
i'm 4 pages late can you believe they actually made me do work the past 2 days?? i am soooooooooooooo glad you liked nine dragons. we really liked it there and i know it was one you didn't. next time get the egg rolls for your appy!! dave is newly obsessed with EOS... i think it's a guy/sandwich thing--i wanted cookes of dublin, but it was pouring and i compromised. how do they always get their way?? i could take it or leave it.
well i'm here! i work till 8:30, then grocery, then i'm starting my report tonight as promised!!
I'm in! A little late but I love your reviews, can't wait to read more.
We always skip 9 Dragons and I remain a little unconvinced, but it's nice to know if we ever ended up there that there were a few things you enjoyed.
For some reason I see caramel in your future
Ok Mark is just lucky no ADR and no wait
I have never been to Nine Dragons, it is one we skip since I drag DH to our local Chinese place about every week
If I were to say chinese during a Disney trip he would freak
Love Love Loving your review so far
My DH's dream would be a trip with no ADR's, but I'm pretty sure that will never happen as long as he is married to me! I'll see how it all plays out for you first. Who knows...maybe you will change my mind.
How did I miss this?
Must go back to read now.
Kathy
Here I am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That honey chicken looks sooooo good!!! So does the wonton soup!! Can you tell I'm hungry??? Can't wait to read more, no ADR's sounds like challenge but something tells me Todd worked endless magic throughout this trip. He has a nasty habit of doing that now doesn't he???
Todd does seem to be the keeper of the mystical Disney Dining podium key that unlocks any seat, anywhere.
Nevertheless, I don't think I could have headed off to Disney sans any ADRs!! (I would have definitely made a few in secret and kept them in my back pocket in case of emergency starvation! )
I can't believe you ended up in France and NOT in Germany at the Caramel shop. When Mark had the eclair two years ago, it did NOT have chocolate filling, but the custard filling. The chocolate cake in that case is calling my name.
I know where you went for breakfast.
Wow, Todd really is a golden child, isn't he?
YIKES! Dont let him hear you call him that! He is impossible to live with now as it is
I've never been to Nine Dragons but the sound of the Jasmine tea just might be enough to tempt me! I'd have been floating out of there too. I have to say, that shrimp toast looked nasty! Like little worms or something. Ick! Your entrees looked delish though!
That tea was excellent, reason enough to go back! Yeah the shrimp toast isnt supposed to look that nasty, my aunt makes it and it is really good!
Of all of the pastries at Boulangerie, I cannot stand the eclair! I've never been a fan. Something about the pasty shell and custard together just don't taste yummy to me.
I am with you on this one!
What?!?! You don't like the magic bars? Oh, you must have got a bad one then because honey, it's like a gift that fell from heaven! They're soooo good but only in small doses as it's very rich.
It was good but too sweet...I think my taste buds are changing the older I get because when I was a kid I would have scarfed it down, now I wish I could tone it down LOL
I cannot believe Todd just sauntered in to Kona all confident like! Man, you should start renting him out to people on Disney trips so they can get walk ups to restaurants! I agree with you sister, I cannot abide the taste of Tonga Toast. It's sickenly sweet not to mention the strawberry syrup on the side. I almost always go with the macadamia pancakes.
We are so alike!
I'm still in shock that this hare-brained idea has worked! No ADR's and you're eating at decent places? Madness! I cannot fathom going to Disney without a single ADR. Nope, I can't.
Can't wait to read more.
Great reviews so fara. I can't wait to read where you ate without any ADRs. Last trip we tried without any ADRS we wound up making them for the rest of the trip.
Mark has already decided he is having the Big Kahuna when we go to Kona; I'm going with the cheese and ham omelet. Thank goodness for REAL bacon (it really is gross at the CS's and the buffets).
Lunch? You just finished breakfast, so says Romeo after just reading.
new fan here and i'm in!!!
we, too, are doing an ADR-less trip in november... w/three kids... dh's idea... wish us luck!
Todd went for, what else, the king crab claws. Normally he gets 5-8 of them and they are huge, as big as his hand. Take a look at this plate and tell me if that is $60 worth of crab
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As we were leaving the place had a line out the door and down the walkway...we decided to cancel our reservation for Oct and add something else in its place...maybe go back to WPCafe?