I knew I was excited to go to the Travel and Leisure Global Bazaar. But I was just too dumb to know how excited I should have been. If you haven’t been to this event before, you might not know how excited you should have been about this event, either. This pictorial essay should help you discover why you should run, not walk, to buy tickets to this event next year. I know I will.
Melt in your mouth pork belly kakuni, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. The congee was creamy and soft, the texture of polenta, with a sweet and salty soy and scallion reduction.
Oh yeah, and Iron Chef Morimoto prepared and then served it to me himself. I didn’t pee my pants from excitement, but I came close.
I iced my own cupcakes with Celebrity Cruises and learned all about their new push to make cruise ship dining the hippest thing since sliced bread.
I tried coffee from Jordan, dark and rich without being bitter.
I muddled my own mojito at the Patron Tequila station…
Then got an engraved muddler for my troubles.
I got a hand massage…
followed by caviar and champagne, courtesy of Seabourn Cruises. I never thought much about cruising before, but after this event, I really feel like I am missing something.
Sweet butternut squash soup topped with a syringe full of chunky applesauce and crisp pork belly. Sweet, savory, and just a touch molecular. You can get food like this at the Marriott in Fort Lauderdale…who woulda thunk it?!
This Hawaiian woman makes blowing the conch look easy. It isn’t.
Guacamole and chips from Mexico. The Mexican avocados that they used were so much infinitely more delicious than the hard East Coast avocados we are used to. Rich, buttery, smooth…they totally elevated the guac.
Parmesan toasts at the Delta Sky Lounge. These salty bites of umami are reason enough to fly Delta. The mini moon pies by Michelle Bernstein weren’t half bad, either.
I may have stopped off here.
and here…
and here (for the record, Mezcal, even great Mezcal, tastes like gasoline.).
Creamy arroz con pollo and fluffy, starchy mofongo topped with spicy red and green salsas make visiting Puerto Rico sound like a great idea.
The eye candy makes visiting Easter Island sound like a positively brilliant idea.
This post didn’t even cover the indoor zipline or the shopping you could do, including beautful jwelry from Morocco and wraps from Jamaica. It didn’t discuss the great Indian dancing, the cool black-lit Belize room, or the positively electric live music. But it did, hopefully, convince you to buy some tickets next year. The food and drinks alone are worth the ticket price for a night – I had champagne, tequila, sodas, lobster, burrata, crab, and more. You will have an exciting, fun, and totaly delicious night. There is simply no better way to travel the world without taking your passport.
*Disclaimer: I was given free tickets to this event. I was not required to write about it, and my opinions are my own and unbiased.*
Damn Sarah…If you’d of told me about it, I would have swam across the Atlantic for it. Looks fantastic. Everything looks delicious!