Mitsukoshi - Disney, Orlando

As we walked up to Japan of World Showcase in Epcot, you can only imagine our delight to have sushi. All these days on the road, hardly touched any sushi at all. So, needless to say, this was a welcomed sight.

The thing that caught my attention was that we're eating at Mitsukoshi. While it is definitely a well known department store in Tokyo. To me, I've always known it to be a department store in Hong Kong, which closed after being in HK for 25 years. It was a place I remembered going when I was a kid. They sold high end stuff, but there were great household items.
Here at World Showcase, I guess each of the store in the area doesn't belong to Disney. So they must've bid for the space. Mitsukoshi owns the gift store downstairs at the fake Emporer's Palace and upstairs they have a Teppanyaki restaurant, as well as Tokyo Dining restaurant, which was where we ended up.

As part of my meal plan, they entitle you an appetizer, an entree, a dessert and a drink. On a side menu, they also have a set prix fixe menu to choose from as well.

This (above picture) is the Ginza Bento. It comes with 2 small veggie dishes, a bowl of miso, small sampler of sushi, and a platter of tempura with ponsu sauce and rice. Honestly, this is alot of food for me even though I have quite the stomach, but alas, the bento won... I admit defeat.

Again, the manager came out and speak to us about the allergies choices. Japanese food was quite easy to eat for gluten free allergies, since quite a variety doesn't contain gluten, it was not as hard to do as other dishes, say Italian.

To end our meal, we ended pu with the Green Tea Pudding. Honestly, it's really a flan with a hint of green on it. I can hardly taste any green tea in the dish. And yes, that's the caramel layer on top. Like I said, it's like a flan.

What I do appreciate is that they have hired Japanese ex-pats to work there. So the service is excellent and supreme but their English is so-so. There were a bit of disconnect with certain server, but you may luck out and get someone who has great English skills. Either way, you get alot of smiles and your order is correct, that's all that I ask for.

Definitely go downstairs and check out their gigantic gift store. While majority of their items are authentic Japanese made, but you can get alot of them for a fraction of the cost outside of Disney. For instance, any of the Hello Kitty item, you can easily get at Sanrio store or online. Their Kimono might be hard to get elsewhere, but the green tea, chopsticks, weird snacks...etc, you can easily get it from your local Asian market. Spend your money on a limited edition of Mickey over spending it on stuff like that.

Mitsukoshi
Japan, World Showcase Epcot
reservation is recommended, especially for the Teppanyaki portion, but you can always try your luck.
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/tokyo-dining/