May Le Jia, director of the catering department of Hong Kong Disneyland, said, "Hong Kong is a very diversified food city, which is very similar to new york. The public is also very particular about diet and is very knowledgeable. "
Mei said that according to the early planning and research of Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, both Hong Kong and China mainlanders prefer Chinese food: "They are very proud of their local food culture."
"China Cooking has opened up the world of food for our cooking team. Just as German food is different from Italian food, so are Sichuan food, Hunan food and Guangdong food. Rice is the main food in the south of China, while grain is the main food in the north. Chinese food in different places is also very different in cooking. "
Guangdong cuisine, Chaozhou cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Beijing cuisine and Shanghai cuisine all have their own unique seasonings, ingredients and cooking methods. But on the whole, Mei and his colleagues take "Chinese flavor" as the starting point.
Mei said that this theme allows them to use food from different regions for pairing. There is also room for international tastes, including fried chicken and hamburgers, mainly from the United States.
start from the very beginning
Before designing dishes, Mei and his colleagues spent more than two years designing restaurants. Until 2003, all the chefs were hired and began to try different recipes and dishes at the Hong Kong Cooking Vocational Training Center.
Mei explained: "Our chefs of different nationalities have gathered different cultural backgrounds and enhanced our competitiveness. They have done in-depth research from the geographical environment of various places to the history of diet and sauce, and we are really ready. "
In the theme park, fast service is the most important-the clown feast square in fantasy world, the restaurant next to the adventure world and the comet restaurant in tomorrow world-Jianlong restaurant has three separate kitchens: responsible for pasta, cooking and barbecue respectively.
Mei said: "The food is fresh and healthy. Pasta will be cooked in front of the guests. These are simple and delicious foods. " All three restaurants serve food from different parts of China. Noodles in soup are also available from Dandan noodles in Sichuan to Nanjing. Snacks include chicken curry, kung pao chicken, Wuxi ribs and Yangzhou fried rice. Special roast tastes are popular spicy fried chicken legs, spiced roast duck and barbecued pork with honey sauce.
The price of a snack is about $5 (HK$ 40).
In addition to the theme restaurant, there are several snack kiosks in the whole theme park, which are designed by colorful hawker stalls in China. The sales station provides fresh mango juice, orange juice, grapefruit juice, pomegranate juice and mango juice, as well as fresh fruit baskets, turkey legs, chicken legs, hot dogs and sausages.
Here, tea is more popular than soda, one of the reasons is that tea has the function of relieving summer heat. The weather in Hong Kong is always wet and hot. Just ask the local guests.
There are restaurants serving tables in the park, including street restaurants serving lunch and dinner. Chinese and western cuisines abound, ranging from fish and chips to Hong Kong-style curry chicken. The nearby Plaza Restaurant is managed by Maxim's Group, which is the largest catering group in Hong Kong and mainly serves Guangdong and other places. If you want dessert, there are muffins, croissants and cakes in the market, as well as Mickey Mouse-shaped rice soup.
In Adventure World, Riverview Restaurant offers family-style side dishes, including braised pork shreds and fried beef slices. The Royal Ballroom in Fantasy World has four open kitchens: steaming, potted plants (serving curry dishes), barbecue, sushi and tempura. The Rocket Restaurant in Tomorrow's World is the largest restaurant in the park, serving American hamburgers and French fries. Barbecued pork burger is especially recommended. The outer layer is steamed bread, and the flame material is pork cake made of barbecued pork and horseshoe.
Exquisite catering
Jinghexuan is the most exquisite restaurant in disneyland hotel, designed by Adam Tihaney, a world-renowned Italian-American designer, and has a traditional Cantonese kitchen. May said that the kitchen is the most complicated of all the kitchens in China.
Western and Asian breakfasts are served in the restaurant, snacks are served at lunch, and dinner is the time for all chefs to go all out. Every day, there are fresh seafood and fried crab shells with pumpkin and onion stuffing. Fried veal with lily and green pepper, fried chicken, fresh shrimp mousse and golden tofu roll.
The hotel's Cuilaoting restaurant also provides Asian and Western buffets-guests have a better chance to have dinner with Disney friends!
Mickey Restaurant, the chef of Disney Hollywood Hotel, mainly serves international buffets, including pancakes, Chinese barbecue, Indian curry and popular western food.
Mei mentioned: "These foods are not what most people think of as paradise food. We insist on first-class food quality, which is a very exciting challenge. "
Hong kong disneyland
Different parks bring wonderful dining experience.
Hong Kong Disneyland * * * has eight themed restaurants offering different kinds of food and 2,900 seats, of which three provide table service and the other five provide counter service.
The theme of each restaurant is in harmony with the atmosphere and characteristics of the park. Like shopping, dining is part of the whole Disney experience.
Food experts at Hong Kong Disneyland have carefully designed menus and collected popular dishes from all over the country to Japan and Southeast Asia.
Each kitchen has its own style, including the cooking department responsible for making snacks and steaming points, and the iron pot kitchen department responsible for cooking, while curry, noodles and barbecue all have their own kitchens.
The dining experience of small town street in America
Dajie restaurant
This charming restaurant is decorated with Victorian garden houses, with curved wooden chairs, wrought-iron tables, flower boxes, floral wallpaper, brick floors and Red Velvet curtains, and photos of family gatherings are hung on the main hall wall. The restaurant provides table service, and the dishes are mainly Chinese and western, as well as authentic Hong Kong food stalls. The restaurant * * * has 176 seats and provides Chinese and western breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Plaza Restaurant (managed by Maxim Group)
One of the most advanced dining places in the park is operated by Maxim Group, a large Hong Kong catering group. The theme of this classic Chinese restaurant is inspired by Disney's "background story", which tells the story of a wealthy American couple who went to China and fell in love with China culture and cuisine. After returning to the United States, they opened a typical Chinese restaurant, which was decorated with decorations collected during the trip. The interior design combines the styles of the United States, Europe and the Qing Dynasty to create a "combination of Chinese and Western" decoration. In terms of dishes, Maxim specially invited chefs who are proficient in Cantonese and local dishes, and many chefs spent several months concocting various menus. The Plaza Restaurant * * * has 300 seats and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. The restaurant also features conceptual illustrations from the Disney animated film Mulan.
Market bakery (managed by Maxim Group)
A market bakery run by Maxim Cake provides muffins, croissants and authentic cakes in a Victorian bakery. It is said that the bakery was founded by a famous Viennese pastry chef and brought the world's most famous desserts and coffee cakes from the Austrian royal court to meet the tastes of Americans. The photo of the owner in Vienna is also hung on the wall in the store.
Xiaomaidian
Walking along the streets of American towns to various parks, guests can see many theme shops and food stalls, each of which is decorated with its own characteristics, completely in line with the theme of the park. Snacks, drinks and other delicacies, including soft drinks and ice cream, can be bought in small shops. The food stall provides hot snacks, fruits, coffee and tea. In American towns and streets, fantasy world and tomorrow world, there are more traditional popcorn carts, and even the air is full of the smell of popcorn.
Adventure world catering experience
Bilin restaurant
This is a counter-style restaurant, full of tropical plants and strange gods, with a Nanyang style. The square * * * has 245 seats and mainly provides South Asian and Cantonese cuisine, including roast, stir-fried and pasta.
Hejing restaurant
* * * Riverview Restaurant with 186 seats is a table service restaurant built on the Adventure River, which makes people feel that they are in colonial East Africa. You may want to relax here before taking a cruise. The restaurant offers traditional China home cooking, serving dishes on a giant turntable, which is the only one in the garden and is most suitable for group guests.
Fantasy world catering experience
Royal banquet hall
The luxurious Gothic architecture is decorated with shields, epaulettes, flags, tapestries and sculptures used by the Disney royal family, which is full of royal style. The restaurant * * * has 720 seats (inspired by the Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty), 340 indoor seats, 320 outdoor seats under colorful medieval knight tents and 60 courtyard seats overlooking the moat. The food court provides four open kitchens, where guests can choose snacks, classic food, barbecue food, Japanese sushi, tempura and so on. Lunch and dinner are served.
Xiao Jiang Huan Yan Dian
Colorful colors and noisy feeling are the joyful scenes in the Disney movie Camel Man in the Bell Tower. The 240-seat comedian enjoyed a feast in a boat beam and mortars. The restaurant has four open kitchens, serving lunch and dinner delicacies from northwest China, such as stir-fry, barbecue and pasta.
Mingri world catering experience
Huo Jian restaurant
Rocket Restaurant * * * has 800 seats and is the largest restaurant in Hong Kong Disneyland. It provides self-help fast food for tourists, so that they can fill their stomachs before they set out to visit the Milky Way. With the theme of "Star Supply Station", this fantasy engineer decorated the restaurant with metal walls, mini rockets and burning jet engines, making it full of sci-fi colors. The food is mainly American fast food, such as fried chicken, hamburger chips, various soft and hard packages, etc. , with Asian spices, unique flavor. The special recommendation is barbecued pork hamburger.
Comet restaurant
The prominent wavy outline makes this food court a theme of the future world. The menu here is mainly Jiangnan cuisine. This restaurant can provide lunch and dinner for 245 guests at the same time.