Wow…I’ve been so behind on updating this blog…
Well, May has been a busy month! It turned out to be “vacation” month…full of fun, sun, and eating!!
I went on a 3 night cruise to the Bahamas at the beginning of May. It was my first cruise and I was definitely excited that food was all-inclusive! :P
There’s wayyyy too many pictures to post so I’ll keep the text to a minimum. A description of the dish and what I thought of it overall…
Mambo Café – Miami:
- Vaca Frita (flank steak grilled and smothered with onions served with white rice, beans and yucca) $11.95~ SUPER delicious…tender meat, sweet yucca, great combinations of flavors!
Royal Caribbean – Majesty of the Seas:
- Windjammer Marketplace – Buffet
o Build your own salad bar – fresh ingredients, not bad at all
o Breadstick, steak, sautéed veggies, garlic bread, fried rice, tomato salad, pasta salad, grilled Portobello, pasta with sundried tomatoes – pretty good for buffet food
o Build your own Risotto bar (mushroom, tomato, spinach, corn, parmesan, broccoli) – FREAKING awesome! Creamy, flavorful, delicious!
o Pound cake, chocolate/peanut butter cake with toasted almonds, tiramisu, chocolate mousse cake, chocolate layer cake - looked SOOOO good…yet they were a huge disappointment… :( all of them…
o Coffee ice cream with chocolate shavings - creamy and very tasty!
- Room Service
o Pizza Florentine – just ok…it was a little too doughy and the texture was kinda weird
o Bacon Cheeseburger with coleslaw - pretty dang good…we finished all of it :P
o Raspberry Cheesecake – not good; didn’t have texture of cheesecake, more like mousse, but BAD mousse…
o Chocolate Chip Cookies – stale, stale, stale…like they put it out for a couple days before serving it to people
- Main Dining Room – Formal Night
o Caesar Salad – good but average
o Shrimp Cocktail - seemed fresh and was cooked nicely
o Lobster Bisque – not good at all, no lobster in it
o Medium Rare Sirloin with mushrooms, asparagus and mashed potatoes – meat was tender and cooked nicely but sauce tasted like cafeteria food…blah!
o Roast duck with red cabbage and potatoes – nice flavor combinations; duck was not too fatty, my favorite dish of the night
o Sea Bass with spinach and capers – fish cooked nicely but sauce, again, was no good…
o Grand Marnier Souffle - not bad…definitely not as good as the one’s I’ve had around Dallas, but I enjoyed it
o Strawberry Cheesecake – really good! creamy but not too heavy
o Cherries Jubilee with Vanilla Ice Cream – meh…
o Chocolate Ice Cream with biscuit – really creamy and yummy
- Midnight Poolside Buffet
o Assorted cakes – again…BAD desserts…dry, wrong textures… Sigh~
o Chocolate and Pecan Praline ice cream – YUM, they can get rid of all other desserts except the ice cream :P
- Compass Deli – best food place on the ship!
o Chocolate Banana Crepe – made on the spot, delicious! Can’t go wrong with bananas and chocolate!
o Build your own salad bar – fresh ingredients, lots of options
o Smoked Salmon Crepe – also made on the spot, fresh ingredients
- Main Dining Room – Last Night
o Spinach Dip with Tortilla Chips – not bad
o Potato Gnocchi with ham and peas in cream sauce – gnocchi was overcooked and too soft, cream sauce was quite heavy, but overall the flavors were good
o Chef Special: Shrimp and Mahi Mahi Tempura – best dish of the night! Nicely battered and cooked, sauce was slightly sweet, great pairing with the seafood
o Sirloin with tomato, mushroom and mashed potato – generic steak, nothing special, needed more flavor
o Vegetarian Biryani with yogurt sauce – not bad, a little dry
o Chocolate Brownie Sandwich – really tasty, rich brownie with creamy mousse middle
o Banana Parfait with nuts – not really a parfait but very very good; light, layers of different textures
~~ CHOMP CHOMP ~~
The texture of the hummus was really good. The flavor was good but not the best I’ve had. There was a lot of garlic in it so it created a slightly spicy taste which was really good. They definitely need to give more pita bread because we still had hummus left after we ate all the pita.
I was able to have a taste. It was really good. There were lots of ingredients with different textures and was very fresh. The dressing was very light and suited the salad very well.
The dish looked really good, but the lamb pieces seemed kinda small. He said it was really good and finished the entire plate.
The steak was cooked very nicely…a tender medium rare. However, I thought it was missing a certain flavor…not quite sure what it is, but it was missing something. I was also hoping for more vegetables, but I guess the main reason for the veggies was more for presentation than filling up your tummy…haha. 
It was a chocolate cake with raspberry sauce (usually $7~). The presentation was pretty cool...very creative. The chocolate cake was yummy…super rich…makes you want to eat it with a glass of milk. It was a good ending to the meal.
I was able to try the Unagi Mambo Jumbo. The sushi was pretty fresh and had good flavor and texture. The rice was the right texture…I hate it when the rice is too mushy.
The Rocket Roll was good. The spicy tuna and jalapeno definitely added a nice kick. The Ahi Tuna Tower was pretty cool. Once served, the waiter takes two spoons, destroys the tower and mixes all the components together. 
This is one of my favorite Korean dishes. You mix all the components in the bowl together along with a red spicy sauce. The stone bowl makes the bottom of the rice nice and crispy. The flavor was nice and it was full of ingredients. I would definitely recommend everyone to try this dish…at any Korean place. The one at Naan was good, but still overpriced.
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