Friday, February 10th continued
After I came out of Diagon Alley the rain came down pretty hard to start then as I walked over the bridge and neared Simpsons ride it slowed down to a light drizzle.
I decided to sample some food options from the booths.
First sample of evening was from Trinidad & Tobago. I tried the Crab & Dumplings. Which was supposed to be a curried stew with soft shell crab stew with roti.
I wanted to step outside of my culinary comfort zone and try something different.
The bowl did not look very appetizing, but I gave it a try. After one bite of the soft shell crab I picked it out of the stew. It was chewy and was inedible. The stew was spicy and good. The roti was dry and had no taste to it so that went to the side too.
I think this dish would have been fine sold as a curry stew without the soft shell grab. Soft shell crab is typically fried and served crispy. It did not work in this dish at all.
My next stop was Columbia. You ordered and paid at the booth and the actual place you received your food was around the corner across from Animals Actors were the fixed tables are.
I ordered the Colombian Empanadas. I ordered one beef and one chicken.
When I arrived to the area where you are supposed to pick your food up there were four people in front of me waiting for their order. The two young TM’s serving the food were I will guess in their early 20’s maybe a bit younger. One was female and one was male and they were arguing with each other. The male was instigating and the and the female was giving it back to him.
The guy in front of me had obviously had enough. They did not seem to care that they had people waiting for them to dish up the food so they could leave the uncomfortable situation.
Finally the grandma in me had to say something to try and bring them back to reality so they would stop their unacceptable behavior. My first thought was to step out of line and approach them more closely and tell them to stop, but since they did not care to share their bad behavior loudly for everyone to hear I did not care to say something to them loudly either.
I told them to stop arguing or I was going to go seek out a supervisor to stop their poor behavior in front of people who had paid for their food.
The male TM looked at me and he was not happy. They did serve the food and thankfully we all left to find a seat not far from them at the fixed tables and they started it up all over again.
Not long after I sat down what appeared to be a supervisor who looked to be checking to make sure all the booths were doing ok with the amount of food left for the evening approached their booth. They stopped when they saw him coming.
When he walked away. I stopped him and told him what we had witnessed while waiting for our food. I told him he needed to separate those 2 TM’s as they were not getting along. He said he would tell the supervisor and he would be back.
I love Universal and I feel they have the most wonderful TM’s, but this situation was sad and uncalled for. I hope they did separate those two and no one else had to witness their poor behavior.
The empanadas were good and so was the sauce that came with them.
To be continued
after having the coating literally slide off the fish more than once @ finnegans, gave up. A shame as they used to put out a decent product.
