Lil Lin Lin has taken over afternoon tea at the Tokyo Disneyland Hotel. The Dreamer’s Lounge Christmas special set costs 7,000 yen (about $44) per person and runs through December 25, with Lil Lin Lin peeking out of a wreath on the bûche de Noël and a pink Lil Lin Lin on the dessert plate.
The set started November 1 in the hotel’s lobby lounge. It needs a Priority Seating reservation, which you book through the Tokyo Disney Resort online reservation site under Dreamer’s Lounge (special set only). Each seating lasts 120 minutes, and only a limited number of sets are served each day.
What Comes On The Tea Stand
The savory tiers lean on Christmas colors. There is marinated grilled tuna shaped like a wreath with wasabi cream and a Japanese-style jelly, lily bulb mousse with consommé jelly and caviar, and a red snow crab and lotus root quiche. A roast beef bagel sandwich comes with a truffle-flavored sauce, the liver mousse and potato rillettes get a balsamic sauce, and herb-marinated octopus sits on braised napa cabbage with a romanesco “tree.” There is also a warm beet minestrone.
The hotel’s own plain scone has a Christmas tree design and comes with clotted cream and apricot jam, alongside a kouign-amann filled with a sweet-tart cream.
Two Lil Lin Lin Desserts
The bûche de Noël is the one with Lil Lin Lin looking out from a wreath. The plated dessert is a salted caramel and praline mille-feuille, layered with caramel mousse and caramelized apple, served with a cider jelly topped with honey foam and apple slices. An ornament-shaped berry sorbet and fresh red fruit finish the plate, and the pink Lil Lin Lin decoration is shown gazing at her reflection in an ornament.
Coffee or tea is included, with refills. Seasonal premium teas, including a Glühwein tea and an Irish whiskey cream tea, are 700 yen (about $4.40) more. A chef’s special of lemon-scented seafood and mizuna cream gnocchi, loaded with mussels, shrimp and squid, adds 2,000 yen (about $12.55).
The Christmas Drinks
Two special drinks, 1,600 yen (about $10) each, are poured during the lounge’s lunch and sweets hours and its dinner and cocktail hours. Li’l Pink Noel is a nod to Lil Lin Lin’s new pink outfit this year: lychee juice, soy milk, strawberry purée and lychee syrup, finished with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, chocolate and colored sugar. Twinkling Winter Journey is an iced tea with apple juice, peach syrup, apple purée and apple compote, decorated with lemon and chocolate as a red-nosed reindeer.
Lil Lin Lin is everywhere this season, from the Christmas event that began November 11 to the lounge’s tea stand. The full set is listed on Tokyo Disney Resort’s menu page.
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