There are some situations in life that are baffling. How did I end up here? Why is this happening to me?
Yesterday was one of those situations. I visited the Tokyo DisneySea theme park (one half of the Disney Tokyo Resort) as typhoon wind and rain lashed down on the area.
It is an experience I’ll never forget!
Throughout the soaking I endured, at least the park did a good job of keeping me sustained with vegan food options.
Read more below.
Tokyo DisneySea and Tokyo Disneyland next door have restaurants, cafes, and food carts scattered across the grounds. Until recently, vegans looking for food would have to ask to read ingredient and allergen sheets that were a bit on the tougher side to decipher.
The parks have simplified this a lot more now by adding a small green leafy-looking V to the menu, indicating which items are made without any animal ingredients. That means no meat, dairy, eggs, or honey. Nothing animal derived.
The popcorn shown above was an exception to this rule. Even though it didn’t have the leafy V, I was able to search for the information to discover it was vegan. I got the caramel, while the parks also had salted or black pepper varieties. Warning: many of the popcorn flavours scattered throughout the parks were not vegan. Some obvious such as the prawn and garlic, while others not so obvious such as the curry.
Another favourite snack of mine were the Mickey churro sticks. These were available in a handful of the restaurants and are not to be confused with a different variety of churros that are not vegan.
At the Yucatan Base Camp Grill restaurant, I enjoyed a bowl of the Vegetable Keema Curry Yucatan Rice Bowl. Like many things at Disney Tokyo, the influences get a bit mixed up and I wasn’t sure why I was eating an Indian-style curry in a Mexican-themed restaurant.
The dish was delicious and featured lentil daal, soy meat, rice, and a mix of vegetables.
I popped into The Snuggly Duckling restaurant as I’d read online about the vegan burger available. It was tasty with a patty that was somewhere between soya meat and bean burger texture. The burger featured the leafy V symbol on the menu and although the fries didn’t, many vegan bloggers have verified with the parks that they are indeed plant-based.
This next item was a strange one, but still tasty.
The Tortilla Wrap was available at a few restaurants in the park and I can’t recall where I ate it. Whenever it does appear, it features the leafy V to indicate it is made without any animal products. What is did include was chili beans, cabbage, guacamole, a multi-grain salad, and corn chips.
It was a hot mess to look at but was tasty and filling.
Last up on my list and probably my favourite are these vegan donuts.
The donuts are sold it a set of two (one chocolate and one strawberry) at Sebastian’s Calypso Kitchen in the Mermaid Lagoon area. They display the leafy V symbol on the menu however I heard a rumour that they might be a temporary item for the current Food and Wine Festival at Disney running until June 30, 2026. Perhaps they will stay on after this?
These donuts were delicious with a subtle sweetness and a chewy, almost jelly-like texture. I even bought extra to take back to the hotel for a morning snack.
As you can see, there is decent selection of vegan options at Tokyo DisneySea. I also didn’t get to everything and missed out on pizza, pasta, and even a vegan tasting menu at the fancier restaurant called Magellan’s.
And for those of you interested in non-food insights, the rides at both parks were a lot of fun. A few were closed due to planned maintenance coupled with the typhoon (!!!), but enough remained open for us to enjoy our visit and never run out of things to do. The Beauty and the Beast ride was unforgettable.
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