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Hi, I'm Mr. Dapsson. I'm here at the
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Disneyland Resort for the Lunar New Year
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celebration, which started today and
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continues to February 22nd. And it's one
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of my absolute favorite festivals at the
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Disneyland Resort. It's got fantastic
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entertainment, which you might hear in
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the background. It's got some great
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merchandise. It's got fantastic
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characters. And perhaps the best part of
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Lunar New Year is the food. Absolutely.
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the food that you have here. So,
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so I'm here with my friend David.
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David, tell us a little bit about the
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and we're going to bring the chef in.
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So, yes, Luna New Year happening right
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now all the way through February 22nd
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and we have the festival route all open.
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So, you can get one of the sip and saver
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pass to try all your good food items.
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Not only that, most of our other
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restaurants have their dishes coming out
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for the festival season.
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And you can get a tasting size or if
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you're like me, you get the full size
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and you just get the entree. Yes.
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Do you know this year's year of the
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Yes, it is year of the horse.
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And something really special that we
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made is a sourdough bread shaped like a
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horse. Look how adorable that is. It is
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And you know me already, I love carbs so
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much. And carb shaped is my favorite
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shape. So, moving over to our
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Mickeyshaped hot dog bun. Something
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about this year, the breading on this uh
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Next level, huh? Yes. And
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and I never doubted it before
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and I enjoy it every single bit.
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And as a big treat person, we're
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bringing back the chocolate firecracker.
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Right. With a little cracker sweet
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person and I loved it. I It jumped out
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at me. In fact, we were reviewing it
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last year and it was one of the ones
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that later on I was like, "Oh, I I would
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eat more of these." I'm not going to,
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but I would eat more of these.
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Right. Like things I could always eat is
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Mickeyshaped like Mickeyshaped macarons,
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Mickey shaped hot dog buns. How could
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you go wrong with these?
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Yeah. But let's move over to the table
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of all of our treats that we have across
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Absolutely. So, with our new items over
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here, our five spice popcorn chicken,
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medium levels of heat that comes in.
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I absolutely love eating this one cuz
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that nice little crunch texture on the
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outside with chicken. Moving over
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the chili garlic sauce is just the
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Yeah, it gives nice little tangy and
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spice to it. But talking about our big
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item dishes that we really want you to
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sit down and eat center table, something
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that Chef Qui made himself
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is our lemongrass pork skewers. And he
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could tell you more about what's
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Tell me what a lemongrass pork skewer is
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first cuz I will admit I've never had
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Okay. So this is a Vietnamese inspired
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dish. Um it is mainly a street food.
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So it's grilled. So it's marinated in a
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lemongrass um marinade.
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So we skewered it up with a pork belly.
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Then we serve on the side a garlic fried
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rice. Then some pickled daons and
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carrots and a and a fresh salad with
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just romaine cucumbers and and tomatoes.
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And we serve it with our fish sauce or
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nukem. And that's the dressing basically
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Nice. So for those of us who haven't had
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this before, could you describe what you
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would expect flavor-wise? Is it super
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spicy? Is it sweet? Is it
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It It will be sweet, not too spicy.
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Um and it'll be very aromatic with the
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Love it. Uh could you tell me about a
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couple of other things here? I see a uh
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Well, this looks good. The fries here.
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Yes. So, this is the bogi fried rice or
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sorry, the bogi fries uh served at the
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Smoke Jumpers Grill. So, it's French
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fries with marinated bogi beef,
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mozzarella, a gochi jan, a ioli topped
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with sesame seeds, and green onions. I
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love it. And I see we have a new egg or
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an egg roll. We have red pudding, which
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David, you can't say the lemongrass pork
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skewers again. Besides those, what is
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something to go out and try this year
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that's been jumping out at you? And I
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know it's hard. We have to bring the
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spice. You're the horse. The fire horse
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to be exact. So, we're bringing in the
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spice this year. So, we're talking about
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our um our fire our spicy chicken wings
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that we have here, which is on the heat
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level hot. It is hot. It is spicy. I
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could tell you that it will
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get your your cold brew with it.
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Yes, we do have Vietnamese coffee always
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to uh calm down the heat. But we also
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have more food items that are equally
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spicy. Like our spicy pork belly grilled
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cheese over at Pim's test kitchen.
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That is amazing. This has that nice
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crunch of a grilled cheese and this goat
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cheese. No, no, spicy.
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Yeah, it's a grilled cheese.
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Grilled cheese. Okay.
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With the pork belly. The spicy pork
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belly that we put inside.
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Yeah. How about these Japanese noodles
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Brand new items. It's Jupj. It's a
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Korean style glass noodles that we have
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and it's new in one of our location and
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cowi which is like where you get the
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Korean barbecue line.
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Adding that meat on top of the glass
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noodles get our dish.
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We had a variation of this before at
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Paradise Garden Grill, but this is a new
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addition here at the marketplace.
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Fantastic. Okay, so what's your favorite
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Favorite dessert. Does coffee count as
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dessert? Cuz we have the taro topping
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with Lynn's iced coffee. I believe
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coffee desserts. I think coffee is its
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own category. So you can have coffee and
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What if we made the coffee into a cake?
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Okay, I'll I'll go with that. So double
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win on that one. So we have the
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Vietnamese coffee rouad, which right
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over here on this top part, it has a
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sponginess of a dessert cake with a
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flavor of Vietnamese coffee.
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Yeah. Double win on double item.
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And that's your that's your favorite
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This is going with coffee is always a
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win, but that's having coffee as
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dessert. That is the one to go to. Love
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it. Well, thank you so much for your
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time, David, as we look at this lovely
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sport of foods. You do really have to
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try them. And I would suggest getting
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that sip and saver pass because it will
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save you time. It will save you money.
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Can you do the order thing where you go
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to one booth and order all the other
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Absolutely can. And also other
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locations, you could also mobile order
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Like added special. We didn't talk about
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earlier, but this is scallion pancakes
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loaded at award winners. Mobile order
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and you're good to go. So, make sure to
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stop by Disney California Adventure
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before February 22nd. You're going to
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want to do it multiple times. We always
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do. You heard the entertainment in the
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background. You saw the amazing food.
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And it came from people like this.
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There's love and and hearts behind all
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of this stuff. So, you don't want to
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miss any of it. Be sure to go to
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disneyland.com and the Disney Parks blog
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for more information and DAPs Magic
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where we've got all of your Disney and
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positive stuff. Make it a great week,
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everybody. Keep kind.
