{"id":107,"date":"2013-07-31T02:51:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T02:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/disney-does-dim-sum\/"},"modified":"2022-04-21T00:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:03:19","slug":"disney-does-dim-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/disney-does-dim-sum\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Does Dim Sum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An alien, a chicken and a teddy bear walk into a bar \u2026 Ok, it\u2019s a Chinese Restaurant and the punch line isn\u2019t very funny. Chicken Little is about to lose his head. He\u2019ll never know what\u2019s coming. One minute, he\u2019s sitting in a bamboo steamer basket, the next he\u2019s lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Where is this place where cute and cuddly characters are served up for supper? Disneyland of course. The character dim sum lunch at the Crystal Lotus Restaurant, one of several eateries inside\u00a0<a title=\"Expedia Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/Hong-Kong-Hotels-Hong-Kong-Disneyland-Hotel.h1926667.Hotel-Information?brandcid=blog.article.disney.july_17072013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel<\/a>, takes dim sum to another level.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect plain old pork buns and wonton soup. The Aliens are filled with pork and vegetable, Duffy the Disney bear\u2019s insides are red bean paste and Chicken Little holds an eggy lotus seed custard that goes down a treat.<\/p>\n<p>At 311 acres, Hong Kong Disneyland is the smallest Disney resort. Compared to Anaheim\u2019s Walt Disney World Resort at a whopping 25000 acres, it&#8217;s tiny. But it makes up for its size in originality. Inside the park, Festival of Foods serves up\u00a0almost too cute to eat Little Pigs BBQ pork buns and big bowls of noodle soup.<\/p>\n<p>Forget hot dogs and french fries &#8211;\u00a0Mickey Mouse shaped waffles, turkey drumsticks and rice on a stick are sold from street carts and the rolled up pizza slices in Toy Story Land seem to be hot property.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong Disneyland doesn\u2019t always stray too far from the pack \u2013 we clamber aboard the spinning tea cups, join the chorus for It\u2019s a Small World and shoot through the stars on the Space Mountain rollercoaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alien, a chicken and a teddy bear walk into a bar \u2026 Ok, it\u2019s a Chinese Restaurant and the punch line isn\u2019t very funny. Chicken Little is about to lose his head. He\u2019ll never know what\u2019s coming. One minute, he\u2019s sitting in a bamboo steamer basket, the next he\u2019s lunch. 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