Tokyo Disneysea

The moment I stepped into Tokyo Disneysea, I felt I was in Europe. The architecture surrounding the Mediterranean Harbour was very impresessive. The American Waterfront was also very well-built, especially the Tower of Terror. Gazing at it sent shivers down my spine.

Attractions

All thanks to my brother-in-law who ran round to get fastpasses, we managed to sit 2 of the most popular rides - Indiana Jones and StormRider. They were really good. It was a pity Journey to the Center of the Earth was closed for the day.

We spent most of our time in Mermaid Lagoon. The kids sat all the rides and we watched the Ariel musical. Although the cast spoke in Japanese, all the songs were in English. We had to keep our heads up most of the time as the cast were suspended in mid-air.

Our final 2 rides were in the Arabian Coast - Sindbad's Voyage and the Caravan Carousel. Nothing fantastic.

The final show at night was BraviSEAmo! We could not understand all the dialogue but the fire and water display over the waters at the Mediterranean Harbour was quite spectacular.

Food

Did not have much time to explore the food options. We tried the famous gyoza sausage buns from Mysterious Island. It's just a steam bun in the shape of a gyoza. The filling was not great. The sausage rolls at Expedition Eats (Lost River Delta) was normal.

What was yummy was the ukiwah buns at Seaside Snacks (Port Discovery). We bought it by mistake thinking it was the famous gyoza buns. It's also a steam bun but the filling is some prawn paste which was really good. It comes in a shape of a life buoy. Very cute.

At both Disneyland and Sea, you can order pop-corn in a cardbox or pay more to get it in a variety of buckets.

I fell in love with a Duffy bear basket and went all the way to Cape Cod and queued for it. The pop-corn flavour that came with it was milk tea. It's sweet and that's the kind of pop-corn I like. Only after I bought the basket that I did my conversion calculations. I've just spent about $30 (2,100 yen) on a plastic basket!!! Daren says I'm his crazy wife. The basket is now sitting in my room. I think when we move to our new place, I'll fill it with artificial flowers and display it. My father-in-law said it's an egg basket. Don't think I want to dirty it with eggs. Besides milk tea pop-corn, Daren bought the curry one. It tasted like twisties. Nothing special.

Ice-cream was pretty interesting in Disneysea. The full variety can be found at Mermaid Lagoon. There's the sea salt ice-cream that sits beautifully in a seashell container with a picture of Ariel on the lid, a pack of 4 choco-banana ice-cream balls, the usual mickey-shaped popsticle and tiramisu ice-cream sandwiched between 2 mickey-shaped biscuits. If you are not an Ariel fan, you can get the sea salt ice-cream in a heart-shaped container with a picture of Minnie Mouse on the lid from the other ports.

We had dinner at one of the restaurants along the Mediterranean Harbour - Cafe Portofino. Their set meals consisting a main, soup, salad and drink were very filling. The pasta and salad were pretty good.