 Hey friends today, we are hanging out at Disney's Animal Kingdom And we're gonna be dining at one of the highest rated restaurants in all of Walt Disney World Tiffins this restaurant's central theming is all about exploration and adventure So I'm sure we're gonna be trying some very interesting food items And then later on we're gonna park hop over to Epcot to go check out Joey Photone because he has special guests with him and Mer from impractical jokers is one of them any hoos. Let's go do this Today is August 7th, and I wanted to come out to the parks a little bit later in the afternoon It is been super hot out August is a very hot month in Florida and like I always say Animal Kingdom I feel like is the hottest park We're gonna be meeting up with some friends and like I said before we're gonna be dining at Tiffins I have eaten here before and it was always amazing it is definitely a signature Disney restaurant and I'm gonna try something different this time and then maybe Afterwards we're gonna see if we can ride some rides or if we have time beforehand maybe hop on a ride or two I mean, I just love coming to Animal Kingdom Right here is Tiffins restaurant, and it's located right next to Nomad Lounge It's actually together so Nomad Lounge is like the lounge for Tiffins And they have a little bit of a preview of the menu and like I said this menu was so amazing And my favorite thing has to be this Lion King dessert. Look at that. It's so beautiful looking now This is just a little bit of the menu. They have so much more in there, but I'm excited. This is one of my favorite restaurants Last night I was actually at Epcot and I watched Joey Fertone's show But I was just hanging out with friends and it was so cool that Mer came out and I got to meet Joey Fertone I got to meet a member of NSYNC. I got to meet a member of the impractical Jokers. We took photos together They're on my Instagram stories if you guys want to check it out But he had so many other friends there Ryan Cabrera like I was like I was in heaven It was such a great show that and inspired me to come back out and do it again the next day and bring you guys along So I can show you because it really was such a great time Let's take a look at some of the wait times and see how busy the park is It looks like flight of passage is only a 65 minute wait Navi was 45 minutes Cali River Rapids is a 60 minute wait Which is kind of shocking dinosaurs 30 minutes expedition Everest is 30 minutes. That's not too bad These are actually very decent wait times Kilimanjaro safaris only a 20 fit them 25 minute wait It looks like we might have enough time to actually head over to Kilimanjaro safaris and go on a safari before We sit down and eat at tippin's and I'm excited like our reservation is at 550 So if being a 25 minute wait, you can't pass that up, you know a little safari a little dinner a little joy for tone I feel like that sounds like a perfect night Look at that. You can't beat a 25 minute wait for Kilimanjaro safaris So we're gonna head right on in and it's probably not even a 25 minute wait Sometimes it's like a walk on and they still say 25 minutes We love coming to Kilimanjaro safaris at this time because usually it's feeding time and the animals are way more active now I have to point out though. This usually closes down before the park does I think the last safari goes out at 7 30 So if you come anywhere after five, it's usually the best time to come in my experiences. So hopefully we have a good safari Up and here comes our trusty motor transportation for the day looks like it's Simba one Sean have we ever rode Kilimanjaro together? Yes we have. You have? Yeah, okay, then he knows about the bantabag We've been stuck here for a little bit and it is super hot like without any airflow, right? You're feeling, huh? Oh, we're moving Let's go That breeze And let's make sure that we aren't making any loud noises at the animals like whistling clapping or calling out to them as this Is their home that we are entering into now We didn't want to frighten them look at it above see all of them But we usually have to be black right now. Oh, wow. Look at that rile right there eating food Look at that It definitely looks like it's feeding time perfect time for a safari He's back pelicans During mating season they've got a wingspan of about seven to nine feet long Looks like we're getting a little bit of a rain shower here Wow, look at that. Oh the rain's coming in though. They're running though They're just standing there chilling It's dinner time and it's raining. Oh the water. Oh, I got wet Elephants love the rain Seriously, this is the best look at the baby rhino There is a rhino in the mud right there look at that So, yeah, that was a great safari I don't know how much of the footage I could show you guys because it was super rainy and very bouncy because they were trying To like get us through there, but all the animals were out. I saw everybody the rhino though the baby rhino Digging a hole in the mud will last with me forever. That was the highlight of it. It was amazing I'm so happy now. Let's head to Tiffin's. Let's go get some food and also I'm excited for the coffee at Tiffin's. The coffee there is next level only sold there only at Tiffin's And here we go. Are you ready? I'm ready for my first Tiffin's experience. Yeah, first Tiffin's experience You know what Joe Rody does eat here sometimes he does yeah He does dining with imagine your first time at Tiffin's too, right? Are you guys gonna get the Lion King dessert? It's so pretty Yeah, this Lion King one is like the Lion King itself and it has like the little Simba on it You know what I mean, you know like yeah Simba Yeah, they come out and they do it they put chop now. I'm only kidding Just like Kristen mentioned this restaurant used to offer Dining with an Imagineer and that was a special event where you get to come in and dine with an Imagineer and Joe Rody used to be One of the Imagineers here and it's funny because this restaurant is based off of Joe Rody and the other creative people behind Disney's Animal Kingdom There's tons of photos on their journeys the dining rooms are split up between Africa Asia and then animals and it's basically kind of just made to show off all of the Amazing things that they did as they were going around getting information to build the park and I love that and Joe Rody's known for Animal Kingdom But he had such an influence on some of the best rides at Epcot even he did Maelstrom and he was even dream finder He actually was dream finder at one point. So it's really cool and I love this restaurant Tiffins is a restaurant But it's also a gallery of art based on the travel and adventure that inspired the creation of Disney's Animal Kingdom And there was a lot of cool things in here lots of art pieces and pictures and some of them There's like a little game where some of them are actually pieces from like Africa and some of them are from Harambe You remember they're not real so you have to try to guess which one's real which one's fake which one's real and which one's here That sounds like a game Now that we've made it into the restaurant we're at our table and we're in the conservation room, which is really really nice This is my favorite room and I'm gonna start off by ordering a Indonesian pressed pot coffee It's a coffee that I was talking about and it's very fancy in there So I had to take the hat off and we're gonna look over the menu and try to decide on what we want to get Here is a look at the full menu and I want to get the charred octopus. I love octopus I'm all about it. They also have a corn and sweet potato soup Which is phenomenal the butter chicken and the whole fried sustainable fish is a popular one But for me, I think I'm gonna do the serpent turf a little South African spiced beef tenderloin Seared scallops potato puree grilled vegetables some nice demi glaze. I'm all about it Cheers to a little Indonesian pressed pot coffee Look at us so fancy coffee pinkies up pinkies up very hot Now that we've had our coffee They do offer a bread service, but they have a complimentary bread service. What is this? It's pomegranate focaccia with like a pomegranate oil and he said to mix the oil make sure you mix it And a little goes a long way a little goes a long way. This sounds I'm excited to try this it looks very good It smells like a sweet bread a sweet bread almost like banana like sweet baby rays It looks like Shawn does not like the focaccia bread and I'm a little concerned now, so here we go That's great. I like that a lot Enough of the bread business here is the charred octopus and we're all gonna share this and it looks really good It's got chorizo in there Just one tentacle and I'm excited. It looks really good good char Especially down at this end there and I love octopus ever since I had it at mythos I've been a little bit obsessed. All right. Here we go. I'm gonna cut the tentacle Excellent there we go nice little spot there. I feel like we need to add a little bit of this into there, too Yeah, a little bit of everything on one bite except for it all fell off. I Am so excited to try this it looks so good. And like I said, I love octopus. Oh Yeah This is definitely a little bit Adventurous especially when it comes to the different spices on the bottom down here Like the whole entire plate is actually coated in it like this isn't the design of the plate It's actually all the different African spices on there and it actually has a very good texture to it I like I like I said, I'm a big fan of it in the corn salsa is a nice little touch a touch of corn salsa This piece right here definitely has a lot more of the char on there and that's what I like You guys know that I love the char even on my steak Shortly after we tried the octopus all of our food came out and Kristin got the lobster mac and cheese And look at all the lobster on top of that good chunks of lobster I'm excited to see where this ranks on the right down Main Street Mac and cheese rating like everyone told me I needed to try it. So here I am. Well, there we go And then Sean you've got the butter chicken over there. That looks actually really good. Look at that very fancy very nice, and then I went with the surf and turf and that's the The beef right here and then the scallops and also the potato. It's one of those potatoes That's like double fried. This all looks amazing and I cannot wait to dive into it The octopus itself also has tequila. So that's what I was tasting actually as I was Sampling it a little bit that I was tasting a little bit tequila Fun fact, I have never had scallops before and when I first sat down I asked if I could sub out these scallops for shrimp because I do love shrimp and they told me that the scallops were Almost the best thing on the menu. So I said, you know what I'm gonna roll with it I'm gonna try something new today, and that's what we're doing. We're gonna try the scallops All right, here we go my first reaction to trying scallops first time ever here That's amazing right up what I Honestly can't believe I have never tried scallops before and that was phenomenal That was way better than the shrimp. That is so good Now I'm really I'm really worried though because what if my expectations of scallops now is always gonna be that right there At one of the finest restaurants on Walt Disney World property, you know what I mean? It's gonna be a high expectation now anytime I ever have scallops again, but that was so good Just tasting that sear on there and it has that shrimp texture I'm a fan. I'm a scallop fan It Might be shocking to you guys that I haven't tried scallops before but I've been a plain eater my whole entire life and within the past two Years I have been on a mission to try things and expand my palate and it has been fantastic Like I'm just trying seafood for the first time I would have never eaten seafood like if this was me like probably four years ago I probably would have never came to this restaurant All right, here we go Cut right down in get some of that demi glaze Well, the steak looks great. I'm not even gonna lie Here we go all about the steak today Honestly, I have to say it's all about the demi glaze and I couldn't remember what it was but it's a cola based one So it's actually like really really interesting It's funny that it's on this menu and I love it like that makes the whole entire meal the steak itself is pretty good I do like the char on the outside I wouldn't actually put it up there with like my favorite steaks out there because I feel like this is more for like a Higher palette. I'm more of like the meat and potato guys like you know I mean and this right here is good But I need some fat, you know, I need the ribeye the ribeye is where I'm at But the demi glaze if I had that on a ribeye that would mean chef's kiss right there The issue with this is it's so good But so small like the portions are tiny but I could eat so much of it and it would cost me a lot of money Like this was I think $67 so like that is a lot of money, but Top notch top top notch Honestly, this meal is actually fire I mean everything like all the components to it is just so amazing the potatoes are just out of this world Look at this. Oh man The the demi glaze the scallops like I'm a big fan. I'm a big big fan Like like I said the stink rigging is just out of steaks, but as an overall entree This ranks pretty high for me very high actually Seriously that good Now that we've gotten done and like I said, I gotta say that entree like the whole like surf and turf was phenomenal I loved everything about it, but it's time now for some desserts And you know, I already talked about this Lion King dessert, which is so cool I just I literally get it just to take a picture of it But now they have a 50th anniversary lemon meringue pie and this looks good too And it has one of those little Madeline cakes in it some graham cracker cookie lemon basil sauce lemon basil sauce, huh? Lemon basil I've never either Yeah, we're doing it. We're doing it big day and the coffee's gone that coffee did get a coffee was phenomenal I kind of want to keep this you know pretty in a purse We're gonna actually split the dessert so we're gonna get one lemon one one Lion King one and then we all can just try Like you know me if it was just me I would just get the Lion King one because I love it that much, but the lemon one kind of cut my eye Here is the Lion King dessert and take a look at this this down here the Simba part This isn't actually on the plate itself. They actually put it on there So it's a part of the dessert and this says remember who you are Remember And here is the lemon dessert doesn't that look so fancy and once again Just like the Simba play put the Walt Disney World 50th anniversary logo on the plate And honestly if this is only for the anniversary then this isn't gonna be her much longer But this looks so good too. It actually looks like a lemon kind of reminds me of the dessert They have over at bowling Bear this looks I'm excited to try them both and then decide which one I like more Remember who you are Seriously desserts are just so pretty you don't want to destroy them But you have to you have to do it Here we go All right, here we go. I'm gonna try the lemon now Kristen said I got to get the bottom piece. That's the way, huh? What's this little cotton candy green stuff? What is that? I think it's like a matcha teacake or something matcha teacake. Oh, no, don't want to lose it The moment of truth That's a good dessert too. Oh It's gonna be a close call If I would have to choose I think it has to go to the Lion King Let me be the final decision. Oh final decision because you're just trying that one for the first time Definitely I mean this is a good dessert though. Yeah, the plating is great. I mean presentation presentation Simba remember who you are. I love this plate though. What? It's the 50th To lemony yeah, this is just a lot of there's a lot going on there Yeah, this is the way Well dinner at Tiffins was Exceptional, I really love the desserts are probably my favorite thing other than also the colas demo glaze That was fantastic. The whole meal was great Now it's time to leave here make our way over to Epcot try to catch Joey for tone Hopefully we'll make it there in time But if not I've seen it last night, but I wanted to show you guys and see if he has any other special friends joining him tonight Like I don't know if they change it out. He does four different shows. So you never know I guess you never know who's gonna show up Well, we made it from animal kingdom to the boardwalk We figured it'd be faster to walk in here and then head straight to world's no case We're a little pressed for time. It took us a little bit longer than I thought and the show starts in 25 minutes 20 minutes, holy moly We're not gonna make it We are just power walking through the boardwalk no time no time for boardwalk Joe's marvelous Margaritas We just got to go go go only here for Joey. We're here for Joey not for Joe We have nine minutes to get from here to America and find a seat in probably a super packed theater Chris Kirkpatrick We might make it I think we're gonna do it nine minutes. You have to power walk And by God we did it Look at that one minute to spare. We made it to America. We're gonna make it. We did it 759 holy moly Joey for tone in friends. Look at that. Hey, how are you? We made it I Love this song Patrick came out. So basically that's half of in sync just no Lance bass or JT JT, but we got JT right here a taller version a taller version of JT I'm the Joey for tones. I'll take that I'll take that but also I don't know if you guys notice Ryan Cabrera came out and last night Murr was here from in practice I don't know if they're gonna come back out, but they switch it out. It's never the same show So I'm very excited. We're gonna see who it is now Chris Kirkpatrick came out. No more Okay, well that Joey for tone show was awesome Chris Kirkpatrick came out So that's basically half of in sync like I said no Murr this time though. I feel like they swapped them out It's always different, but I loved it I love the different songs and it was great to see my friend Chris with LBV TV We were dancing to bye-bye bye and it's really good show. I love to eat to the beat concert series It's always so amazing that people you get to see, you know what I mean? Like it's so crazy and now we're gonna watch the little fireworks just probably the finale because that's my favorite part and then Maybe make our way over to the boardwalk. So I Think we are done here today. It was really awesome Catching a little bit of the tail end of the fireworks. Those are like my favorite parts of the fireworks Just those blast alone, you know what I mean? And he if you saw Chris from LBV TV He was standing there who was live streaming it And I was like kind of waiting to see if he knew like they were gonna be blasting off like right next to him And he did he ducked out of the way. So it was really fun And I mean Joey Photone was a great time Chris Kirkpatrick no murder this time though a little sad about that But I do love murder and I had a great day I mean honestly overall animal kingdom and then over to Epcot. That's pretty amazing like seriously It was such a fun day, and I'm so happy that I was able to make a little video It was you know what I mean? So I hope you guys enjoyed it. I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time Bye