Counter Service Dining at Disney’s Animal Kingdom – Anandapur Local Foods Café (Asia)

Everything I read about the counter service dining options in Disney’s Animal Kingdom recommended Flame Tree Barbecue.  But when it was time for lunch, we were in Asia (not literally) and hubby isn’t a big fan of barbecue anyway.  He saw the Asian menu (go figure) and thought it sounded good. 

It was. 

Daughter got:

  • Chicken
  • Cookie
  • Apple slices
  • Apple-juice

9yo got:

  • Chicken
  • Cookie
  • Apple slices
  • Sprite

7yo:

  • Cheeseburger
  • Apple slices
  • Cookie
  • Sprite

Hubby:

  • Honey chicken (There is rice under the chicken.)
  • Frozen Lemonade
  • Large Diet Coke

I ordered:

  • Chicken Fried Rice

The chicken fried rice sounded good to me, but it was a snack credit instead of a meal.  A great deal for a snack credit, but it didn’t come with a drink or dessert.  Hubby’s Diet Coke was big enough to share, though, and I was fine.  

I forgot to ask him how he felt about sharing his drink. 

I’m sure he was fine. 

We really liked this restaurant.  The chicken strips for the kids were actually strips, not just small nuggets.  The honey chicken came with rice, and hubby really liked it.  (I thought it was a little over-board on the honey flavor.)  My chicken fried rice was great, and the serving size was plenty for a meal.  (You can find my chicken fried rice recipe here – shameless promotion of my real blog.)

Spending Quick Service Dining Plan Snack Credits at Disney’s Animal Kingdom

At the end of our time at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, we were hot.

And exhausted.

And hot.  Wait . . . did I already say hot?

Well, we were.

We remembered seeing an “ice cream truck” but then discovered that we had already passed it before we started looking for it.  In an effort to not backtrack, we walked way farther than we should have  . . . and ended up having to backtrack to get to the park exit after finding another ice cream stand.

While trekking, my oldest son decided he wanted a pretzel for his snack.  A non-cold-and-refreshing pretzel.  His reasoning was that we NEVER had let him get one before (can’t remember him ever asking) and he wanted to take full advantage of this my-parents-are-actually-letting-me-get-snacks-at-amusement-parks-thing he had going. 

Don’t worry.  It wasn’t half-eaten when we bought it.  I just forgot to take the picture at first.

We do have standards.

I also forgot to take a picture of my 5yo’s Mickey Mouse shaped ice-cream sandwich.  I’m pretty sure you can picture that one in your head though.

We finally made it to the not-behind-us-but-definitely-not-on-the-way-to-the-exit ice cream stand and hubby got a coke float and my 7yo son and I ordered soft-serve waffle cones.

Is there anything that tastes better than ice cream on a crazy-hot day?

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