Phroobar
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They are all controlled by the reptilians anyway.How would you know if he really his or not......
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News Pacific Wharf to be Reimagined into San Fransokyo
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MarvelCharacterNerd
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Were Baymax's eyes actually blinking?!
Too Many Hats
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I’m not familiar with this film/character, but the blinking looks pretty cool.
Stevek
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They kept the Turkey Pesto Club and the old Pacific Wharf Cafe so I'm happy. We rarely ate in that area and if we did, it was almost always Pacific Wharf.
Disney Analyst
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MiceChat has a livestream from yesterday trying some of the new food from Lucky Fortune. Sound sucks at the start, but food looks good. Sounds like the Birria Ramen is a winner.
brb1006
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Anybody remember "Big Hero 6: The Series"?
CaptinEO
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Seems Disney's going all in on Birria these days. Trend of the month.
TP2000
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I loved it when they tried selling fried whole Tilapia fish for the Lunar New Year celebration in Paradise Pier.
Gutsy of them, but gross.
CaptinEO
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That's pretty awesome. They do sell a fried whole fish like this at Tusker House in Animal Kingdom at least.I loved it when they tried selling fried whole Tilapia fish for the Lunar New Year celebration in Paradise Pier.
Gutsy of them, but gross.
Seems Disney leans fully into the latino clientele even when making a land that I assumed was made for the asian population. It's the only way I can explain "Biria Ramen", Street Corn and a "Bulgogi Burrito" in a Tokyo themed land.
Can't blame Disney I'd argue on any given day the largest population of visitors are latino.
TP2000
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Cucina Cucamonga is the only Mexican restaurant in DCA. They had to keep it. Just like they had to keep the Boudin Bakery there, even though rustic sourdough bread is not a food found in Japanese cooking. (The Japanese do excel at fine French baking, like delicate croissants and tarts, or very elegant white bread for tea sandwiches, but not chunky sourdough)
That's what is so silly about this cheap-n-easy "San Fransokyo" overlay to the food court. They've got to pretend Mexican food was in the Baymax movie. Order more red patio lanterns from Party City, that will help disguise it.
CaptinEO
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I get Cucina Cucamonga, but Lucky Fortune cookie which served only chineese food (at least last time I ate there) is now a fusion place with Biria Ramen and Chicken Sandwhiches.Cucina Cucamonga is the only Mexican restaurant in DCA. They had to keep it. Just like they had to keep the Boudin Bakery there, even though rustic sourdough bread is not a food found in Japanese cooking. (The Japanese do excel at fine French baking, like delicate croissants and tarts, or very elegant white bread for tea sandwiches, but not chunky sourdough)
That's what is so silly about this cheap-n-easy "San Fransokyo" overlay to the food court. They've got to pretend Mexican food was in the Baymax movie. Order more red patio lanterns from Party City, that will help disguise it.
When I last ate there it was a choice of meat, sauce, and rice in a container with vegetables. The coconut curry sauce was delicious.
While fusion food can be fun it seems like that's what DLR is going all in on these days. IMO they are overdoing it. It used to be just for the food festivals.
At Epcot's food festival's they don't serve any of this fusion stuff. It's foods authentic to the host countries. You won't find German Schnitzel Sushi, which sounds like something a DLR chef would proudly create.
I've never been to San Fransisco (Or Sanfran Tokyo) but is Mexican food a big part of their cusine?
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TP2000
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Not that I remember. Chinese food, obviously. There's a big Italian community there with some of the best old Italian restaurants on the West Coast. Japanese food has always been a staple there. Fresh shellfish and seafood are well known there, but using cooking methods known to Americans (think cold cracked dungeness crab, anchovy dishes, etc.) Plus plenty of trendy Napa/Continental/California fusion restaurants.
But Mexican food? That's not a stereotype of San Francisco cuisine and its restaurant industry in the least. Surely there are Mexican places in town, but you get what I mean.
But then, this is coming from an entertainment company that just forced Filipino cuisine and culture into a log ride set in 1930's rural Louisiana. When the US Census data from 1930 shows that less than 0.1% of the state population of Louisiana was Filipino, and obviously no one thinks of Filipino cuisine even today when you say the words "New Orleans food".
PiratesMansion
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The whole point of San Fransokyo is that it's a fusion of US/Japanese sensibilities.
So it's not weird or out of theme or whatever for the food to reflect that fusion as well.
So it's not weird or out of theme or whatever for the food to reflect that fusion as well.
Disney Irish
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It depends on who you ask, if you ask tourists its not the first thing they think of as "San Francisco" cuisine. But if you ask locals and those in the know, Mexican food is a big part of the entire Bay Area cuisine including San Francisco.
For example San Francisco is the birth place of the popular Mission style burrito, known as just Mission Burritos in the LA area.
TP2000
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San Francisco is an affluent city of 800,000 in the middle of a metro area of 10 Million people in the Western US. So of course it's going to have some great Mexican restaurants. Also some great Lebanese restaurants. And some great Somali restaurants. And good Brazilian barbecue.
But when you create a Japanese version of San Francisco, Mexican food does not spring immediately to mind. And it wasn't in the movie.
TP2000
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Was Mexican cuisine or culture in the Baymax movie? I can't find any evidence of that being in the movie.
Let's be honest and just say this is a cheap and fast attempt to retheme a theme park food court to some older movie that wasn't that big of a hit for some bizarre unknown reason they sprung on everyone at an otherwise boring D23 Expo.
But they don't want to give up the only Mexican restaurant in the park, and they can't cancel the Boudin corporate sponsorship, so they are stuck pretending that margaritas and burritos and sourdough bread and Chinese food are all "Japanese". Someone call Party City and order more, MORE, red patio lanterns and no one will know the difference. It's Baymax, I swear. He loved burritos in the movie, remember?
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Disney Irish
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San Francisco and the whole Bay Area has lots of cuisine, Mexican is part of it. In a city of over 800k people, over 30% are of some type of Hispanic descent. So yeah Mexican food is a big part of the City from large restaurants to street vendors.
Big Hero 6 as a Disney property is more than just a movie. Yaki Tacos is a part of the franchise, which is a Japanese-Mexican fusion fast food franchise.