If you know what we mean when we say FRUSHI, then you’re already a fan of this booth at the 2024 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival!

We’re of course talking about Hanami, a classic and fan-favorite booth at the Festival. It’s time to find out if this year’s menu is worth a stop on your springtime culinary trip around EPCOT! Let’s go!

Menu

Over at Hanami, you’ll find several new items this year and the popular Frushi, in addition to four new drinks! You’ll find a savory Steam Bun and a Ramen Cup.

You can sip on four new drinks this year including, a Watermelon-Strawberry Lemonade, a Cherry Blossom Green Tea Pilsner, Sake with Strawberry and Watermelon, and Pineapple Nigori Sake.

Now that we’ve taken a look at the menu, let’s dive into the food itself!

Eats

First up, we grabbed the Steam Bun that’s new this year. It’s filled with filled with vegetables and plant-based soy meat and is priced at $8.50.

The Steam Bun is really interesting, but we have to note that although it is filled with veggies and plant-based soy meat, the plant-based icon doesn’t appear next to its listing in the Festival Passport, so this dish may not be 100% plant-based. However, it is SO nice. We would have not known the meat was soy at ALL. The bun itself was like biting into a cloud.

Next up is the other new item for this year, the Ramen Cup for $8.50 — Ramen salad shaken in a cup with fresh vegetables, grilled chicken, and dashi broth with chili oil and yuzu. This is not the ramen you ate in college! In fact, we are IN LOVE with this ramen.

It’s served cold, but that is EXACTLY how it should be served. The vegetables are light and bright. We thought the grilled chicken was just fun, but you don’t get a lot of it. The Dashi broth is savory and very robust. We didn’t get a lot of the chili oil and yuzu flavors, but this is EXACTLY what we needed to eat on a hot Florida day.

And, for dessert, there’s the Frushi for $7.75. This “fruit sushi” is made with Strawberry, Pineapple, and Cantaloupe wrapped in Sweet Rice and Pink Soy Wrap served with Whipped Cream, Drizzled Berry Sauce, and Toasted Coconut. This is a super popular festival item, but our reporter just didn’t think it was THAT interesting.

Granted, this is a great way to introduce someone to sushi who might feel intimidated by fish-based sushi. We also found the rice a little hard on this.

We’ll say this is still a fun festival staple, but honestly…*whispering* we would totally get that Ramen cup instead of the Frushi. It’s an unpopular opinion, but we had to share it!

Drinks

This year, Hanami is serving up FOUR new drinks!

First, there’s the Watermelon-Strawberry Lemonade for $6.75. This drink was SO refreshing, and we would order it again. It’s nice to have a really good non-alcoholic drink option for people who don’t want the booze. It’s light, sweet, and fresh.

And, this year Hanami has two sake choices on the menu — both new! The first is the Ichigo Breeze Cocktail for $7.75 which is made with Sake with Strawberry and Watermelon, and then there’s a straight-up sake choice, the Ozeki Pineapple Nigori Sake for $9.75.

We got the Ichigo Breeze Cocktail, and it’s pretty much the same as the Strawberry Watermelon Lemonade, but with Sake added. We liked that the sake didn’t really add a big difference to the taste of the drink, so it’s pretty cool you can get both a boozy and non-boozy version of this drink here.

For all the beer drinkers out there, you can check out the new Orange Blossom Brewing Co. Cherry Blossom Green Tea Pilsner. This is new for 2024 and the price is 6 oz for $5 and 12 oz. for $9.50.

OVERALL

So we’d have to say this booth is mostly a big hit for us, but we think the popular Frushi might be the LEAST interesting thing on the menu. We would certainly return here for the other two food items, as well as the drinks. We also really like that there’s a cocktail here that has its own non-alcoholic version for those people who don’t want the booze.

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