Shanghai Disney Resort Discussion Thread

[Nrthwnd]

Ooooooooo, it's all shiny!

[gerstlaueringvar]

SO PUMPED FOR OPENING DAY!!!

[Nrthwnd]

^ I am UBER jealous of you, right now.

 

It will pass. But for now...

Disgust can also be Envy in a Really Annoying Way, LOL.

[gerstlaueringvar]

The park released some of the food at the park on their WeChat account. Not gonna lie while the desserts look really delicious, a few of these really made me want to get out of the park and go to McDonald's instead.

Afternoon tea at Shanghai Disneyland Hotel

Beijing style lamb

Soy bean with pig feet :/

Smoked pork loin with corn, not bad.

Shrimp, egg a drive combo

Roasted beef noodle

Grilled squid with Shanghai style veggie rice

Sichuan style grilled chicken sandwich

Mickey pork steam bun

Minnie read bean steam bun

Micky Beijing roast duck pizza, seriously??

Cinderella dessert

Elsa dessert

[SharkTums]

This looks pretty good. I was a little worried as Hong Kong already has quite a bit of food I can't deal with, but honestly some of this looks really great. KT will be especially happy to see all of the Macaroon options!

[cfc]

I think most of it looks pretty good--especially the desserts and the roast-beef noodle concoction.

[jedimaster1227]

The grilled squid looks wonderful! Our honeymoon can't come soon enough!

[BCTom]

All of the food looks good. I wouldn't order pigs feet in all likelihood, but that's just personal preference.

 

Is there now confidence that the park will open as scheduled with all attractions running?

[SharkTums]

Is there now confidence that the park will open as scheduled with all attractions running?

 

I think it depends on what you consider *all* attractions. There are certainly some that are under construction for the future or won't be open for opening day but Disney and others will say that was not the plan anyways.

[Nrthwnd]

The food to be offered, looks great! Very yummy looking.

 

(Except the pig's foot and the squid.)

[Jew]

I'd do the desserts, the chicken burger, and the pork loin. But I imagine the locals will love the seafood options.

[gerstlaueringvar]

Macaroons are huge at big cities in China now so I would guess they have more options than what's listed.

 

Is it just me or putting Beijing roast duck on a pizza sounds absolutely awful?

[DoinItForTheFame]

. . .a few of these really made me want to get out of the park and go to McDonald's instead.

 

Agreed. While most of them look really good, this one:

 

 

Really looks like something I would find in my toilet. Maybe the presentation could be a little better. . .

 

Regardless of how it looks, I bet it still taste amazing!!

[rosscoe]

The pizza looks great if you eat duck, plus Aussies put everything on pizza ( eggs, bacon ) but I think I'll stick with the sweets.

[cfc]

The pizza looks great if you eat duck, plus Aussies put everything on pizza ( eggs, bacon ) but I think I'll stick with the sweets.

 

What if they could substitute kangaroo for the duck?

[rosscoe]

The pizza looks great if you eat duck, plus Aussies put everything on pizza ( eggs, bacon ) but I think I'll stick with the sweets.

 

What if they could substitute kangaroo for the duck?

 

I'm sure you can already get that over here, we put everything on a pizza.

[cfc]

^I know--I've had kangaroo pizza. Tastes like venison.

[Garet]

We've got quite a few strange options in Korea I've tried the strawberry pizza here in Korea and quite a few weird options elsewhere, saw blueberry pizza recently at a chain "Italian" (http://www.solemio.or.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=m33). The cheap chain pizzeria near my house has a white cream spaghetti pizza for $8 and I quite like it. (http://pizzaschool.net/menu/%EA%B9%8C%EB%A5%B4%EB%B3%B4%EB%84%A4%ED%94%BC%EC%9E%90/)

Ratatouille Pizza was in Mad for Garlic a few years ago, if you're a garlic lover the chain is worth checking out. As you can see from the link above for blueberry pizza, dessert pizzas can be quite popular.

The mentioned strawberry pizza from a restaurant in the basement of Gangnam, right next to the Gangnam Style monument.

[jarmor]

I am an eclectic eater so all of the options look great! Too bad it will be a while before I can get over there (basically find someone who would go with me . . .).

[robbalvey]

Oh, China....

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3572803/Disney-resort-Shanghai-vandalised-badly-behaved-tourists.html

 

The Disney dump: New $5.5billion Shanghai theme park is trashed by visitors dumping rubbish, trampling flowers and letting children urinate in public (and it's not even open yet)

 

- Crowds gather daily at the theme park, which doesn't open until June 16

- Visitors were condemned after photos showed 'uncivilised' behaviour

- One image showed a woman allowing a child to urinate in a flower bed

- Others showed a vandalised lamp post and rubbish all over the ground

 

Badly-behaved tourists have already left their mark at Disney’s new $5.5bn (£3.8bn) theme park in Shanghai, even though it doesn’t officially open for another six weeks.

 

Visitors have trampled plants, picked flowers, carved graffiti into freshly-painted lamp posts and left bags of rubbish on the grounds.

One woman was photographed allowing a child to urinate in a flower bed in full view of other visitors, who travelled to the park just to hang out around its locked gates and peer into buildings that aren’t open yet.

Photos posted on the social-networking website Weibo show rubbish on the floor of a bathroom

Someone carved graffiti into a freshly-painted lamp post to notify others that he 'was here'

One photo posted on social media shows a Disney Shanghai visitor allowing a young girl to urinate in public

Visitors have even knocked over signs warning them to stay on the path

With hundreds or even thousands of eager visitors arriving daily, flowers and plants have been trampled

Visitors were condemned on social media after rubbish was strewn over the grounds at the weekend

[cookiex]

Seems kinda pointless to hang around there in such large numbers when the place won't be up and running for another month.

 

And didn't HKDL have similar problems with misbehaving guests when they first started letting people in? I remember reading that somewhere.

[KBrylczyk]

Park looks nice and all but it's a well known fact that Chinese tour groups are among the worst groups of people on the planet, Brazilians being right up there with them. I'm sure it'll rake in the cash but I seriously doubt it'll keep the appearance Disney parks are known for.

 

Looks like a second trip to Tokyo is in order.

[thrillrider]

Oh god....I forgot about the Brazilians.

 

Hope they are not as bad this July, as they were on our last Disneyworld trip a few years ago. Not sure why they would allow them to act the way they do stateside. I remember being stuck in the pirates of the caribbean line with hundreds of them while they were all singing and screaming.

[robbalvey]

And didn't HKDL have similar problems with misbehaving guests when they first started letting people in? I remember reading that somewhere.

Yes, but no where near the issues we've seen during our average visits at just about every Chinese park we've been to.

[Wily J]

Why are they letting anyone near the place if it's not open yet??