Mouse Extra

Teppan Edo has become one of the most popular restaraunts in all of Epcot and even in the entire Walt Disney World. And for good reason. The place is a lot of fun and the food is terrific.
 
Located at the Japan pavillon in the World Showcase, the restarant shares the second floor above the Mitsukoshi Department Store with the sushi place, Tokyo Dining. In fact, you check in at the same desk for either place. That means there tends to be quite a lot of people milling about at meal times.

 
Once called, you are ushered into one of several rooms each with a few long tables where you are introduced to your server and, shortly thereafter, your chef. For our table, which we shared with 6 other guests, that man was Kenji, who was quite the showman. The meal starts off with Kenji making an onion volcano, stacking the rings of the onion so that steam comes shooting out the top. The kids loved it.
 
For food, you can order one of several teppan choices. The chicken was great as was the veggies with udon noodles. The saki and the saki rita were good complements. There is a kids’ menu but our daughter, a finicky eater, did not enjoy it. Our son, however, loved it. He loved the food, the show and the fact that he could use chop sticks, albeit with a rubber band.
 
Teppan Edo is a fun place to eat, although I imagine much of the fun depends on the chef and we lucked out with Kenji. The food though can stand on its own.

Today’s review if from Mike, contributing writer to Mouse Extra

By now, every Disney fanatic has heard about Summer Nightastic coming to Walt Disney World this summer.  The centerpiece of the marketing program is a return of the famous Main Street Electrical Parade to the Magic Kingdom after a decades’ long absence.  And now we find out that the upcoming run in Florida will be barely over two months long.

Yesterday, the Disney Parks Blog added an update to its original story about the parade’s return informing us that Summer Nightastic will run from June 6 through August 14, a much shorter run than many wishing to see the parade had hoped.  This gives fans just over five months to get to Orlando or risk missing the parade for who knows how long.

In years past I have complained vociferously about this kind of short-term announcement from Disney, but this one takes the cake.  Most often, I have moaned about how long it takes for them to announce the dates for Star Wars Weekends, but at least fans who want to attend that event have a relative idea when it might take place and can start planning accordingly.  This event, containing something nearly every Disney fan over the age of 25 gets overly nostalgic about, was completely unexpected.  And now, we all have only five months to raise funds, find the time to take off from work, and do all the planning.  You think this bugs?  You’re darn right it does!