DAY 7: What the heck are we going to have for breakfast today?!
So I've been gone from my review for quite some time... life has been really busy. With February break and skating show done and all that busymaking stuff behind me and the boyfriend traveling for work this week, I am hoping to catch up on my own dining report and with everyone else's. I am dying to read the new stuff posted but have not allowed myself that indulgence until I get going on my own. So that is where I am right now. Only a few days left so hoping to finish this up this week, but no one hold me to it!
To catch up on where I was in the report though, we had just burned our final 4 DxDDP credits at a lousy meal at Narcoossees and now we have the freedom of being completely OOP. That said, I still kept my pattern of having 2 TS ADRs a day... I really like that whether on
DDP or not. After that we went to the very crowded non party night MK and hit the wall and hard. We returned to our lovely room at the Poly, met up with some new friends, the kids laid on the bed and watched classic mickey cartoons and the moms had some grownup beverages from room service and we all watched the fireworks from the balcony. It was pure magic, but it ended up being another late night and as we were saying our goodnights I started thinking about my plans for the next day.
During the planning phase this was my thought process: Wow, we REALLY need to see WL at christmastime. How can we fit that in? Maybe we will do a breakfast there, maybe on our off day. That would be a great idea, wouldn't it? We could take the monorail to the MK......and then take the boat over. We'll make a morning of it. It will be lovely and we will soak up the Disney atmosphere and enjoy our first non DxDDP breakfast and maybe eat light because we'll be sick of eating, who knows! We'll have CHOICES! and maybe we'll even have milkshakes for breakfast.
After hitting the wall this was my thought process: Oh god, I don't care if I see the WL at christmas just don't make me get out of bed in the morning. Maybe we'll just do room service. I'm SOOOOOOOOO TIRED. I don't even care if I never eat again I just want to sleep until I can't sleep anymore!
So after a brief discussion with the kiddo, I cancelled my Whispering Canyon ADR for the following morning as he seemed to care even less about seeing WL at christmastime.
Anyway, we both passed out and slept hard and woke up feeling refreshed in the morning, ready and motivated to find breakfast outside of our room... only I woke up craving the POG juice pretty badly. I did a quick search on
MDE to see if any breakfasts that had the POG were available that morning and Boma popped up. We had Boma reserved for our last morning but I decided that might be a better morning for room service (before leaving for the airport) and we could do our Boma breakfast that morning. The picky kid also loved Boma dinner with his dad on his previous trip so it was kind of on his short list. So over to Boma it was.
We checked in and the kid had to go to the bathroom so I sat on a bench outside and waited for him to do this stuff and about 30 seconds after he came out wiping his hands on his pants (anyone else's kids have no patience for hand dryers? I'm just kind of grateful he washes his hands!) our pager went off and we were taken to our table. Boma is an old favorite of mine too but honestly I was not really in the mood for much exotic stuff. I was mostly in the mood for a gallon of POG juice and that disney breakfast sausage I had become addicted to, and Boma did not disappoint on either count. So the kid and I put in our drink orders and went up to get our first plates:
the kid got a biscuit with sausage gravy, which he had been dying to try and was sad was no longer part of the Garden Grill breakfast, but had been promised to him at WCC since they have it both as a side and on the skillet, but he was just as happy to eat it here... and bacon... and a piece of ham. The kid LOVED the sausage and gravy... but he is my son after all and if it's creamy and fatty, we're all over that. He devoured this whole plate and also drank down his chocolate milk.
my first plate was thus:
I love how the night before I'm all "I'm never going to eat again" and then in the morning I'm like "MUST EAT ALL THE BREAKFAST FOODS!" Sigh. I had coffee, POG juice and on my plate starting at the top and going clockwise there is asparagus, ham with mustard sauce, potatoes with afritude (anyone remember when they used to call them that? cracks me up. I think they are just "breakfast potatoes" now, lol), scrambled eggs with goat cheese and spinach, perfectly cooked link breakfast sausage and turkey bobotie at around 9 o'clock.
I was not really in the mood for much african stuff, which sounds weird, because I love ethnic food and interesting spices and I drove all the way to damn AKL but honestly it was for the free flowing POG. I LOVE asparagus though and it was the first thing I put on my plate, kind of in open defiance to the disappointing asparagus experience I had at Narcoossees. At Narcoossees they were the big fat asparagus... the kind where the bottom of the stems are woody and need to be peeled and they were quite crisp (I do not like mushy veggies but they were too crisp for me). I like the thin asparagus, not a fan of the thick ones. Don't judge, a girl has to have standards! Anyway Boma asparagus is exactly how I like them and were cooked perfectly, crisp tender and super yummy and also made me feel all healthy inside.
I am not actually much of a ham person but I do love mustard... especially interesting mustard. Not that turmeric in water crap they sell all over new england, but spicy brown deli mustard? oh yes. Grainy artisan mustard? Yes please. dijon mustard? yes! honey mustard? yes! So basically the ham is a vehicle for boma mustard, which is delicious and delicious on the ham. The potatoes were good, nicely spiced and well cooked (I hate even slightly crunchy or gummy potatoes... I like them kind of pillowy on the inside and these did not disappoint). The eggs with goat cheese and spinach SOUNDED and LOOKED much better than they were. I actually did not taste the goat cheese at all in them and the spinach was just enough underdone that the semi raw semi cooked spinach flavor overwhelmed any other flavor. In retrospect I think the problem was that these eggs were just completely undersalted... I think some salt would have balanced it better and would have enhanced the egg and goat cheese flavors... but because I salt to taste when I cook at home and I never add salt at the table... and it is very rare to run into undersalted restaurant food... if anything they are too heavy on the salt... I NEVER add salt to my food and it didn't even occur to me to try that. So I didn't enjoy those very much, but it was fine because there was plenty to eat.
Don't shoot me but I tried the bobotie again and I'm just not a bobotie fan. I want to love it but I find it kind of dry and the texture offputting and I didn't love it more this time than I have in the past. The sausage was as good as it looked, fatty and crispy on the outside and that yummy disney breakfast sausage flavor. I am not even that much into breakfast sausage but for some reason got addicted to Disney's on this trip.
Here are the second plates. I don't remember what was going on but for some reason the kid's plate ended up very blurry. I don't normally take blurry pics. I think he finished his before mine and by this time of the trip I'm feeling pretty comfortable with his behavior and ability to not be an awful mess-making hand-sticking-in-food-child at the buffet, so when he asked if he could go up himself I let him. No one shoot me, he used the utensils! Anyway I might have been still eating when he got back so I just took a quick snap and it came out looking like this:
He helped himself to a waffle, a m&m pancake, a couple of butter balls, a big pile of bacon and some potatoes. The kid does not eat syrup on his waffles... I just never really got him into it because it is messy and pure sugar, but he sure does like his butter. The butter balls are quite cold and hard, making it hard to spread. He pretty much ate everything on this plate, which the exception of one butter ball that I removed when I split the other one in half. He didn't need that much butter. We are on vacation but I have to have SOME standards. You'll notice he hasn't touched his napkin, but he was wearing most of his breakfast on his pant legs.
I'm a little better at controlling that stuff when we sit next to each other as opposed to across from.
Here is my second plate, re-filled with all of my yummy favorites:
More asparagus, more sausage, more potatoes, more ham with yummy yummy mustard sauce, and a few plantains. You'd think I'd explore more interesting options but I was really not in the mood. I wanted what I wanted. Everything was as good as it was the first time. The one thing I am not crazy about is the way Disney makes their plantains. I'm not sure why. There is a local place that makes them SO yummy, they are creamy rather than starchy on the inside and crispy on the outside. I find Disney's to be sliced too thick and they stay too starchy on the inside and never seem to crisp up on the outside even though they do get quite brown. So whatever, the mother of the picky kid is picky about plantains. Big surprise.
Since it's vacation I decided to help myself to some dessert. I shared this plate with the kid because although he had been eager to go to the buffet by himself, after the experience of jostling with other people for the bacon he decided he'd rather be served... but he and I both really wanted to try the french toast bread pudding so we did. Also the "I should have something with fiber in it on this plate" guilt kicked in and I got some cut fruit.
As you can see, my POG juice glass was never empty. That there is the #1 thing a buffet server can do to earn that 20% tip from me when they are not really serving... if you do that and clear the plates, you get the full tip.
Anyway the french toast bread pudding was exactly what you would imagine it is. It was sweet and ooey gooey and the pecans were crunchy and it was delicious. I'd say this was much better than the cinnamon bun at Garden Grill... I am not much of a sweets person but I do love nuts and bread pudding so this was a hit. I also ate a few pieces of fruit. the kid liked it too but he IS a sweets person so I was not surprised he liked it.
Overall Boma did not disappoint. It ended up being a good basic breakfast rather than a particularly ground breaking one but that's alright. It was a nice start to our break day and worth making the trip over to AK for (we had a car so it was easy). Although I am not a huge fan of staying at AKL I will say that they have my favorite resort food over there so that is a huge plus. Boma used to be my favorite breakfast on property but on this trip it was edged out... I won't say by what yet, you will just have to stay tuned for the wrap up.
Up next: our day at the Polynesian, 'Ohana and
MVMCP with fireworks dessert party! Be prepared for more trip-reporty goodness mixed in with the food porn.
That is SOO awesome that you could swap your reservations! And whew, what a stress lifted off your shoulders that you don't have to stalk around for a reservation or a waitlist... phew. I totally loved when we stayed at the Poly.. we did a split and only did 3 nights there so we got AK/HS out of our systems and didn't touch a bus for the entire 3.5 days. You can't beat it!
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