Easter 2015. Lots of food *MAINLY OFF-SITE* No snappy title! *COMPLETE!*

[MissFortune]

Originally Posted by Vanillapod

We had breakfast in our room and then made our way to Sea World. We had booked the VIP tour (purely for the Penguins) which we were really looking forward to.
We were a little disappointed with it tbh. Ours didn't seem anything like the trip reports I've read. We were in a small white room and were allowed to queue up and stroke a penguin whilst a keeper held him on her lap
It was ok but not quite what we'd hoped for.
I wanted a photo like MissFortune has. (I think that's right?)
Anyhow, we were done by midday. OH and DS had ridden the rides and it started to absolutely chuck it down.
OH kindly went to get the car and collected us from under the canopy.

We'd already decided we would give the food there a miss and thought Panera Bread was worth a try.
I'd joined the email club so we were allowed 2 free pastries with our meal.

DS chose the chicken miso soup

I had a turkey and cranberry flatbread

And OH had a turkey salad sandwich


OH and DS chose well. They said they were ok. We're not talking Yellow Dog standard here but they were ok, bog standard takeaway sandwiches and soup. Like Costa quality or similar. Ideal for a pit stop
Mine wasn't great but I just chose badly. It was a bit sad looking and the turkey was really watery. There was hardly any filling. Never mind.

These were the pastries


They were incredibly dry and not great so we left them but that's ok because they were free!

We'd probably go back again if it was convenient. I'd just choose something else and we wouldn't bother with the pastries.

I do wish we'd tried Hot Krust Panini Kitchen instead. It was a toss up between the 2 and I think that would have been nicer.

We think we hit the outlets afterwards. We'd intended to have a few hours at Wet and Wild but it was still chucking it down.

Our initial plan was to go to Shulas tonight but we decided to cancel the ADR. I'm not sure why really? I think we were almost all fooded out and thought we might not appreciate it particularly.
We'll definitely make sure we head there early on on our next trip!

After a lot of shopping and DS getting locked in Tommy Hilfiger we ended up at the Cheesecake Factory again.

We shared 2 mains between 3 which worked really well. We still didn't finish it all though!

We went for Bang Bang chicken and shrimp again


And the Chinese Chicken Salad


This was really good. Nice and refreshing actually.

This was a really cheap meal! I think including drinks it was about $45!

We got 3 slices of cheesecake to take back to the hotel. I can't remember what they were but we scoffed them in bed and they were delicious

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yes that's right.

We booked the "penguins up close tour" so perhaps they are different sorry you were disappointed.

Fab updates! Lol @ the corn dogs and Olive Garden randomness.

[dixonsontour]

Great updates. Hot Krust panini kitchen is on my radar this time.

[Vanillapod]

Originally Posted by MissFortune

yes that's right.

We booked the "penguins up close tour" so perhaps they are different sorry you were disappointed.

Fab updates! Lol @ the corn dogs and Olive Garden randomness.

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Oh, that's probably where we went wrong then. Oh well

[Vanillapod]

Originally Posted by dixonsontour

Great updates. Hot Krust panini kitchen is on my radar this time.

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Yay! I'm looking forward to your review I think it looks really good.

[halloweenbaby2]

It's brilliant to see some places that I've never heard of before. Thanks for all the lovely pics to drool over

[mossyflossy]

Great updates, and yes, when I think back to HHAGGo the size of those meals were ridiculous, they ended up being boxed, fridged and then ditched. You did well with your CFactory meal...we've taken to sharing a selection of appetisers there instead of ordering entrees, it works better for us.

[Guest]

brilliant report, i love a dole whip

will defo be visiting Teak this time, we arent visiting wet n wild but i would be interested to see if they thrust corn dogs at everyone, lol

[Vanillapod]

Originally Posted by Dory17

brilliant report, i love a dole whip

will defo be visiting Teak this time, we arent visiting wet n wild but i would be interested to see if they thrust corn dogs at everyone, lol

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it was really weird/funny/verging on annoying!

Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoy Teak.
I'm just loading up the pics from our next visit now.

[Vanillapod]

Ok so today is our last day.
We must have finished up as much cereal, fruit and yoghurt as possible before heading to Typhoon Lagoon.
We used the refillable mug here again but didn't bother with food.

I haven't yet taken the pictures off the GoPro but we saw some teenage lads with lizards hanging from their earlobes. They were basically biting them. Weird.
Will upload that little gem
ASAP

We headed back to Teak before heading to MK for our last hurrah


We went for starters this time which were pretty good.
The pics don't really do them
Justice as they just look like more fried stuff!
However, they were;

Shrimp Fritters

Chopped shrimp, smoked maple-bacon & roasted corn lightly fried served with old bay aioli & mustard-seed honey dipping sauce



And

Fresh-Fried Mozzarella Rounds

panko-crusted fresh mozzarella quick fried, served with marinara sauce



Personally, I really dislike marinara sauce with cheese. Boring and just not very nice. I had them without that and they were very nice. Proper mozzarella rather than the stringy plastic pizza cheese.

Now for the mains...

DS had

Drunken Monk 12

Angry Orchard onion jam, roasted cherry tomatoes, smoked bacon, herb mayo, provolone cheese & Teak chips topped with melted white cheddar cheese served on pretzel bun



I think OH and I must have chosen from the secret menu as I cannot find what we had online!

Here is mine


Found it on FB! It's a smoking gun



I was actually a little disappointed. The flavours were great but I hadn't realised it would be mashed up chicken.
I can't cope with mashed up, compacted meat. It makes me gag so I left that but ate the rest.
It's not like I was short of food!

OH had a Californication (just found a photo of the secret menu online)
I've also just found the photo on the camera too so here it is

Blue cheese, guacamole, smoked bacon, garlic mayo, bibb lettuce and tomato on pretzel



This was all good and we made our way to MK

One last Dole whip and then back to the hotel to pack

[dixonsontour]

Drunken monk looks good