Tokyo Disneyland International Food & Kawaii Festival
After our first visit to Tokyo Disneyland, we shared some of our favorite snacks in a post covering what we tried while there. We’ve been back to Japan a few times since, and thought it was finally time to share some more of what we’ve tried. While there is not a “Food & Kawaii Festival” at Tokyo Disneyland, the park’s many snack stands might as well be one.
One thing we’ve stressed on the blog is how a trip to Japan doesn’t have to break the bank. Between the current value of the dollar versus the yen, low airfare prices, and cheap on-site hotels at Tokyo Disney Resort, visiting the Japanese parks could be cheaper than you think. We’re going to do a post (or series) comparing our costs of a recent visit to Walt Disney World to our current trip to Japan.
Snacking will not be a part of that post or series. If you want to do Tokyo Disneyland on a dime, do not make eye contact with the snack stands or allow yourself to hear their siren song. Think of this more like a kawaii version of the Epcot Food & Wine Festival (hence the post title). It’s fun to graze those booths and try the snacks, but the costs can creep up on you. Same goes here, and one person can eat a surprising number of snacks in a day. Well, if you’re a crazy pig like me, at least. Fortunately, I’m in good company, as Sarah loves to snack, too. Actually, I’m not sure the words “I don’t enjoy eating Disney snacks” have ever been uttered in a Disney theme park.
Rather than sharing photos of the snacks again, we decided to try something different for our current trip. Well, I should say our pig-padre Guy Selga decided to try something different, and we just sorta piggybacked on the idea. He put together a video of us trying 15 of the best snacks at Tokyo Disneyland:
Hope you enjoyed it. We’ve been dabbling with more video on our Facebook page during the course of this trip, and are curious what you think about video. Neither Sarah nor I are all that comfortable in front of the camera, which has resulted in some awkwardly bad (deleted) videos. Being awkward and bad at things has never stopped us in the past, so if you’d like to see us try vlog style content (in addition to text-based posts) please let us know in the comments. If you are not interested in vlogs, feel free to let us know that, too!
If you’re thinking of visiting Japan for the first time and are overwhelmed with planning, definitely check out our Tokyo Disney Resort Planning Guide. It covers much more than the parks, from getting there to WiFi to currency and much, much more. For more photos and an idea of what we did day-by-day during our first visit, read our Tokyo Disney Resort Trip Report.
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Your Thoughts
Have you tried any snacks at Tokyo Disneyland? Have any favorites? What do you think of the vlog? Share any questions, tips, or additional thoughts you have in the comments!
I would absolutely love video or vlog content from you guys! It feels like a new, fresh take on stuff you might have written extensively on in the past. Personally I would love to see content from you guys cross-posted to a Youtube channel, so I will be notified of it immediately.
I also have to say, I think you both came across great in the video! I discovered your blog just about a year ago, when I started planning our trip to South Korea and Japan this summer (looking for information on Tokyo Disney), so I haven’t followed you for that long. This video just gave me an even better impression of you, and made me want to ‘get to know you better’. The idea of experiencing the parks “with you” in video format, is so exciting to me – I live in Europe, and the US parks are not so accessible to me at the moment.
Love the vlog style post! Great addition to your usually written posts. Thanks for sharing and hope there are more to come!
Thanks for all the feedback on more video content, everyone!
Just to clarify, if (and it’s still a big “if” at this point) we do more video content, it wouldn’t be in lieu of blog posts, it would be in addition to them. This post is *not* a good example. The only reason I didn’t post more photos of the food here is because of time–while traveling, I didn’t have the time to write a full blog post. So basically, it was a quick write-up with the video (which Guy had already posted) or nothing at all.
Another instance where we might do video is for trip reports. It’s gotten to the point where I have a tough time with those because of all the work that goes into them, and I feel like they are becoming redundant. However, doing them in a different form (and while we are there!) might be a fresh spin that’s exactly what I need to get them going again.
There are tons of different ways people consume content on the internet, and video is becoming increasingly popular. It’s not my favorite (I far prefer reading), but I don’t want to ignore it entirely given the huge audience for video out there.
Hope that makes sense, and you all understand! 🙂
Per your advice I made a very serious effort to find those Chandu tails and went to more than one cast member in order to find them lol. But they were out of this world!! Especially since my boyfriend and I were there and March and it was amazing how around 1pm we were so hot we walked around in t-shirts but by 7pm my teeth were chattering!
Chandu tail + the AMAZING strawberry milk tea at Sultan’s Oasis was more than perfect.
Other than Chandu tail the sea salt ice cream was a definite favourite and the black pepper popcorn was a surprising hit! (coming from someone who doesn’t even like popcorn)