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Nottherealaborn posted:I highly recommend the donut sushi It's okay. It's decent sushi, but the rice just falls apart when you try to pick up a "piece" with the fish on it. Unless you use a fork or your hands, you basically end up eating the individual pieces of fish and then scooping up the rice. I do recommend getting the sake because you get a wooden masu cup with your name written in Japanese on it.
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chitoryu12 posted:It's okay. It's decent sushi, but the rice just falls apart when you try to pick up a "piece" with the fish on it. Unless you use a fork or your hands, you basically end up eating the individual pieces of fish and then scooping up the rice. Note to potential visitors of real Japan, not just the Epcot version: same advice applies regarding donut sushi here. If you see it, try it once for novelty; then pretend it doesn’t exist. And, uh, what do they mean by “your name in Japanese”? We talking katakana, or are they trying to squeeze Western names into kanji? ’Cause that latter option means a whooooole lotta people walking around with Japanese text that makes Ariana Grande look good by comparison.
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Flower and Garden menus just dropped and they're legit as hell. I arrive 3/14!
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Tim Whatley posted:Flower and Garden menus just dropped and they're legit as hell. I arrive 3/14! The new stands especially sound great. Not sure if we’ll make it this year since we’re already doing Arts next week. I look forward to reviews to help decide if we should go!
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Grundulum posted:Note to potential visitors of real Japan, not just the Epcot version: same advice applies regarding donut sushi here. If you see it, try it once for novelty; then pretend it doesn’t exist. It looks to be the katakana phonetic spelling of your first name. Here's mine: 
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Ko u de i Cody? That’s hiragana, not katakana.
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Nanigans posted:Ko u de i Yes, it's Cody. I don't know a lick of Japanese so I can barely tell the alphabets apart.
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So “donut sushi” is pretty much a circular version of what’s commonly (in the US) called a “rainbow roll”? Or is there something else special about it? E: never mind, I’m being dumb. Rainbow rolls have crab* inside the rice.
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They’ll always use hiragana, because I spoke to them in Japanese when I went last year and have a sake cup with my (decidedly not Japanese) name in hiragana. I’d presume it’s because hiragana is the first alphabet most students will learn while being authentic, so it’s the friendliest common denominator. It’s been a little under a month so I think it’s too late to do a DLP trip report, so I’m just gonna leave it at: can’t wait for Ratatouille to come over, DLP slow season is idyllic compared to WDW, even counter service places have theming up the wazoo, and we’re seriously missing out on Hyperspace Mountain. Thanks again PkerUNO!
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Bottom Liner posted:Good times at the EPCOT Arts Fest Is Disney buying MGM now too?
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Kimitsu posted:They’ll always use hiragana, because I spoke to them in Japanese when I went last year and have a sake cup with my (decidedly not Japanese) name in hiragana. I’d presume it’s because hiragana is the first alphabet most students will learn while being authentic, so it’s the friendliest common denominator. That’s.. super odd, since foreign names are always 100% of the time written in katakana. It really weirded me out to see "Cody" approximated in hiragana. Also my Japanese is pretty rusty as I haven’t used it once in almost 10 years but a subscript "i" does not exist in hiragana, as used for "codei" in the photo.That might just be a handwriting issue but it looks more like someone meant to write katakana (which has a subscript "i") but instead accidentally wrote hiragana. Sorry not to poo poo on the writing or anything, at least it’s real characters and phonetically spells out your name. It’d be you meeting a "Hitoshi" and then writing out his name in Latin letters as hiTOShI. Like it’s readable but it sure looks odd.
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Saladman posted:Also my Japanese is pretty rusty as I haven’t used it once in almost 10 years but a subscript "i" does not exist in hiragana, as used for "codei" in the photo.That might just be a handwriting issue but it looks more like someone meant to write katakana (which has a subscript "i") but instead accidentally wrote hiragana. Agree that seeing hiragana used for foreign words is weird. There are friendly-looking curvy katakana fonts that would match the Disney milieu. And yeah, your Japanese is out of date. Subscript vowels are becoming quite common. フォ (“fo”), ティ (“ti”), and ヴァ (“va”) are all over the place.
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When the Uniqlo store in Disney Springs opened, they had an employee brush-penning your name as a free gift. Since it was mostly foreign names, it was all in katakana that I saw. Coincidentally my niece was bounding as Kiki that day, and the employee noticed and brightened both their days.
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Grundulum posted:Agree that seeing hiragana used for foreign words is weird. There are friendly-looking curvy katakana fonts that would match the Disney milieu. And yeah, your Japanese is out of date. Subscript vowels are becoming quite common. フォ (“fo”), ティ (“ti”), and ヴァ (“va”) are all over the place. Your three examples are all in katakana, not hiragana. The subscript vowel Im talking about is the hiragana for I specifically, which afaik only exists in katakana. Vvv Thanks, I thought those small vowels were only for loanwords, and thus only used in katakana. I’ve forgotten basically all of my Japanese, and I never really spoke better than like a B1 level. I don’t even remember the level system, but B1 is like "gets around fine and can get the gist of a television broadcast" Saladman fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Feb 15, 2019 |
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Man, I just want my alcohol with some close approximation of my name written in some other language. I love the gimmick.
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Saladman posted:Your three examples are all in katakana, not hiragana. The subscript vowel Im talking about is the hiragana for I specifically, which afaik only exists in katakana. They exist. あぁ いぃ うぅ えぇ おぉ When writing it by hand, it’s literally just writing it smaller so I can’t see why it would be any more difficult. Again, I really do think the choice of hiragana is partially the “easiest to read” factor, just like there are Japanese kids’ books in all hiragana. Looking at the donut sushi, it looks like it’s a ring of sushi rice with fish draped on top, like an extended version of last year’s chirashi! Kimitsu fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Feb 15, 2019 |
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Get your sushi fix at California Grill
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I’m gonna eat the sushi and drink the drink and get the box I’ll ask if they wouldn’t mind using katakana tho 
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Kimitsu posted:They’ll always use hiragana, because I spoke to them in Japanese when I went last year and have a sake cup with my (decidedly not Japanese) name in hiragana. I’d presume it’s because hiragana is the first alphabet most students will learn while being authentic, so it’s the friendliest common denominator. Yay! Glad you had a good time! 
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Tim Whatley posted:https://twitter.com/aaayyitsnoah/status/1095708584409792512 https://twitter.com/GoAwayGreen/status/1095719936230604807 Just browsing weird Disney twitter and saw this but I have no context or knowledge of any of that stuff
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Bottom Liner posted:weird Disney twitter Speaking of... I assume it's just Back Door Disney making things explicit that were latent or maybe just on Disboards or something, but holy poo poo what's going on there. There's a parody of WDWNT because apparently that's a hate-on worth stoking, and Backdoor Disney guy called into WDWNT's live podcast that's streamed for some reason just to say bababooey and WDWNT guy was super unhappy about it.  I just wanna meet a cartoon mouse and enjoy a park or two and maybe read about how to do those things is that so hard
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Boxman posted:Speaking of... the drama that goes on with disney social media folks is fuckin' nuts
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Yeah I'm just as interested in weird backstage stuff as a lot of them but Disney people on social media are truly brokebrained. Also a lot of it is super duper illegal. I'm not about to go to war for any Disney Park, unless it's Epcot and I'm paid in alcohol. 
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Bottom Liner posted:the drama that goes on with disney social media folks is fuckin' nuts It seems that most people who gain some form of following tend to become (or were already) assholes. The guy who runs WDWNT is such a dick about his scoops (which are often not entirely correct.) Back Door Disney is a pompous rear end who is working through his anger about being fired by "sticking it to the man", and don't even get me started on Theme Park Review.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:It seems that most people who gain some form of following tend to become (or were already) assholes. The guy who runs WDWNT is such a dick about his scoops (which are often not entirely correct.) Back Door Disney is a pompous rear end who is working through his anger about being fired by "sticking it to the man", and don't even get me started on Theme Park Review. Oh god, TPR. They are super sensitive about everything. A few years ago somehow I ended up on their list of "Cool" users (despite never posting there much) who were invited to apply to be invited on a secret group trip to a couple parks. Part of the application including sharing all your social media with them so they could evaluate if you were good enough to pay $5000 to go to Dollywood with them. And it's always fun to see Rob overreact to a poster who doesn't totally agree with him on everything. But I do have a beef with bioreconstruct. Dude is always one step ahead of me with his aerial photos.  jk, I met him once and he seems cool
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Zero One posted:Part of the application including sharing all your social media with them so they could evaluate if you were good enough to pay $5000 to go to Dollywood with them. All those Dis fans who go on those weird fuckin trips. I know Dreams is a good agency but drat  Matt Sonswa. Dude is gonna get killed.
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Empress Brosephine posted:BDD is a idiot but it seems like all the urban explorers are idiots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7_CychOtto This was filmed about a month before a TV show I worked on loaded into the soundstage. He's basically walking around an active working studio with a usable soundstage, offices, and Blue Man Group workshops and pretending that he's showing you all the secret abandoned stuff. He later got permanently banned from Disney for all his backstage antics.
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chitoryu12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7_CychOtto Interestingly his Disney ban was lifted, and just last year he got banned from Universal for that video. Several years after he posted it. He's interesting. He doesn't do UrbanX stuff anymore, just park blogs.
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By sheer chance, I wound up at Trader Sam’s in Orlando last night. Seems they don’t do the Kungaloosh there ( ), but there are other off-menu items I could have asked for. Is there a handy list somewhere for the next time I happen to be around?
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If you are seated inside and make good friends with your server, you can ask them to get you a spikey pineapple despite that only being available outside. Make sure to get it with the good rum (I forget the name of it)
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couldcareless posted:If you are seated inside and make good friends with your server, you can ask them to get you a spikey pineapple despite that only being available outside. Make sure to get it with the good rum (I forget the name of it) The spikey pineapple is on the menu for inside too
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Then I must have had some issues in the past with wait staff then. I've definitely been denied it in the past.
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couldcareless posted:Then I must have had some issues in the past with wait staff then. I've definitely been denied it in the past. It has always been outdoors exclusive the past 2 times I was there. Honestly, it was pretty ridiculous.
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From what I recall, the waiter said something along the lines of the PoS system inside doesn't have the drink listed, only the outside one does. So even when we ordered it, we basically had to open a new tab on the outside bar.
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Trader Sam's outside is now on my list of "things I need to do that I've never done at WDW before" right below "actually go to Tom Sawyer's Island"
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BlueBayou posted:Trader Sam's outside is now on my list of "things I need to do that I've never done at WDW before" right below "actually go to Tom Sawyer's Island" Get a very old vintage camera and take pics at Tom Sawyer's Island with it.
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Tom Sawyer Isla d is fun to see the few things Disney Lawyers haven’t told them to remove due to being u safe like the rope bridge
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Huh, that’s really weird cuz they list Spikey Pineapple on their menus, and my wife had no issue ordering it from the bar inside when we were there two weeks ago.
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